The hero and the historians [electronic resource] : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / Alan Gordon.
By: Gordon, Alan.
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BookPublisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010Description: 235 p. : ill.Subject(s): Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557 | National characteristics, Canadian -- Historiography | Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Historiography | Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- French -- Historiography | Canada -- HistoriographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 971.01/13092 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Review: "Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero - Jacques Cartier - to explore how notions about the past have been created, passed on through the generations, and used to present particular ideas about the world in English- and French-speaking Canada. He reveals that the cult of celebrity surrounding Cartier by the mid-nineteenth century reflected a particular understanding of history, one which accompanied the arrival of modernity in North America. This new sensibility shaped the political and cultural currents of nation building in Canada. Cartier was a point of contact between English and French Canadian nationalism, but the nature of that contact had profound limitations."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index.
"Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero - Jacques Cartier - to explore how notions about the past have been created, passed on through the generations, and used to present particular ideas about the world in English- and French-speaking Canada. He reveals that the cult of celebrity surrounding Cartier by the mid-nineteenth century reflected a particular understanding of history, one which accompanied the arrival of modernity in North America. This new sensibility shaped the political and cultural currents of nation building in Canada. Cartier was a point of contact between English and French Canadian nationalism, but the nature of that contact had profound limitations."--BOOK JACKET.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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