| Description |
1 online resource (235 pages) : illustrations |
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French language |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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."--Jacket |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.
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Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557. |
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National characteristics, Canadian -- Historiography.
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National characteristics, Canadian. |
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Historiography. |
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Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Historiography.
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Canada. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1763 (New France) |
| Subject |
Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- French -- Historiography.
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Discoveries in geography. |
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Canada -- Historiography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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HISTORY -- Canada -- Pre-Confederation (to 1867) |
| Chronological Term |
To 1763 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gordon, Alan, 1968- Hero and the historians. Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010 9780774817424 (DLC) 2009292781 (OCoLC)473375560 |
| ISBN |
9780774817431 (electronic book) |
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0774817437 (electronic book) |
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9780774817424 |
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0774817429 |
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9780774817417 |
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0774817410 |
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