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UNINA9910790872403321 |
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Autore |
Gordon Alan <1968-> |
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Titolo |
The hero and the historians [[electronic resource] ] : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / / Alan Gordon |
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Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-7748-1742-9 |
0-7748-1743-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics, Canadian - Historiography |
Canada History To 1763 (New France) Historiography |
Canada Discovery and exploration French Historiography |
Canada Historiography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction -- The Sixteenth-Century World and Jacques Cartier -- Forgetting and Remembering -- The Invention of a Hero -- Cartiermania -- Common Sense -- The Many Meanings of Jacques Cartier -- Decline and Dispersal -- Failure and Forgetting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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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