02700nam 2200589 a 450 991045324680332120200520144314.00-7748-1742-90-7748-1743-7(CKB)2550000001160407(OCoLC)829930014(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748240(SSID)ssj0000875082(PQKBManifestationID)11474853(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000875082(PQKBWorkID)10887303(PQKB)11086347(MiAaPQ)EBC3412868(Au-PeEL)EBL3412868(CaPaEBR)ebr10744865(CaONFJC)MIL490039(OCoLC)923089688(EXLCZ)99255000000116040720100421d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe hero and the historians[electronic resource] historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier /Alan GordonVancouver UBC Pressc20101 online resource (249 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7748-1741-0 1-299-58789-5 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.National characteristics, CanadianHistoriographyCanadaHistoryTo 1763 (New France)HistoriographyCanadaDiscovery and explorationFrenchHistoriographyCanadaHistoriographyElectronic books.National characteristics, CanadianHistoriography.971.01/13092Gordon Alan1968-914257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453246803321The hero and the historians2048379UNINA