An edition of The hero and the historians (2010)
The hero and the historians
historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier
By Gordon, Alan
Publish Date
2010
Publisher
UBC Press
Language
eng
Pages
235
Description:
"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.
subjects: Historiography, Canadian National characteristics, Histoire, Discovery and exploration, French, Historiographie, Canadiens, History, Découverte et exploration françaises, Cartier, jacques, 1491-1557, National characteristics, canadian, Canada, history, to 1763 (new france), America, discovery and exploration, Canada, historiography
People: Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
Places: Canada