Gordon, Alan, 1968-
The hero and the historians historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / [electronic resource] : Alan Gordon. - Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010. - 235 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.
National characteristics, Canadian--Historiography.
Canada--History--Historiography.--To 1763 (New France)
Canada--Discovery and exploration--French--Historiography.
Canada--Historiography.
Electronic books.
E133.C3 / G67 2010eb
971.01/13092
The hero and the historians historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / [electronic resource] : Alan Gordon. - Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010. - 235 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.
National characteristics, Canadian--Historiography.
Canada--History--Historiography.--To 1763 (New France)
Canada--Discovery and exploration--French--Historiography.
Canada--Historiography.
Electronic books.
E133.C3 / G67 2010eb
971.01/13092