03195nam 2200625 a 450 991079087240332120230725062049.00-7748-1742-90-7748-1743-710.59962/9780774817431(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(DE-B1597)661522(DE-B1597)9780774817431(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.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"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 explorationFrenchHistoriographyCanadaHistoriographyNational characteristics, CanadianHistoriography.971.01/13092Gordon Alan1968-1475608MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790872403321The hero and the historians3689843UNINA