02364nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10744865 CaPaEBR m o u cr cn||||||||| 100421s2010 bcca sb 001 0beng d 2009292781 9780774817424 (pbk.) 9780774817417 (bound) 0774817410 9780774817431 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)829930014 n-cn--- E133.C3 G67 2010eb 971.01/13092 22 Gordon, Alan, 1968- The hero and the historians [electronic resource] : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / 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 To 1763 (New France) Historiography. Canada Discovery and exploration French Historiography. Canada Historiography. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10744865 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 32696 32696