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The hero and the historians : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier

Gordon, Alan, 1968-

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\"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.

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Subject: Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557. / National characteristics, Canadian Historiography. / Canadiens Historiographie. / Canada History To 1763 (New France) Historiography. / Canada Discovery and exploration French Historiography. / Canada Historiography. / Canada Histoire Jusqu'لa 1763 (Nouvelle-France) Historiographie. / Canada Dâecouverte et exploration franًcaises Historiographie. / Canada Historiographie.
• ISBN: 9780774817424, 9780774817417, 9780774817431, 0774817410

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E133.C3 G67 2010	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE