The hero and the historians [[electronic resource] ] : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / / Alan Gordon
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 971.01/13092 |
| Soggetto topico: | National characteristics, Canadian - Historiography |
| Soggetto geografico: | Canada History To 1763 (New France) Historiography |
| Canada Discovery and exploration French Historiography | |
| Canada Historiography | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The hero and the historians |
| ISBN: | 0-7748-1742-9 |
| 0-7748-1743-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790872403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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