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Author Gordon, Alan, 1968-

Title The hero and the historians [electronic resource] : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / Alan Gordon.

Imprint Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 235 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index.
Summary "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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.
National characteristics, Canadian -- Historiography.
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Historiography.
Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- French -- Historiography.
Canada -- Historiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780774817424 (pbk.)
9780774817417 (bound)
0774817410
9780774817431 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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