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Making public pasts : the contested terrain of Montréal's public memories, 1891-1930 /

Between 1891 and 1930 Montreal was a bilingual and increasingly multicultural city. Its "two majorities" struggled to negotiate and commemorate their respective memories in the public spaces of the city, using historic monuments to stake a claim to specific places, streets, and neighbourho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gordon, Alan, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Studies on the history of Quebec.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents13;
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface: Two Founding Peoples
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Exploring the Boundaries of Public Memory
  • 2 Crossroads: Montr233;al to 1891
  • 3 Grounds for Disagreement: Social and Political Contexts of Montr233;al, 1891 1930
  • 4 Fissured Heritage Elites
  • 5 British Citizenship: Material Progress, Class Harmony, and Imperial Greatness
  • 6 Devotion and Rebellion: The Contest for French Canadas Public Memory
  • 7 Contested Terrain, Contiguous Territory
  • 8 Public Memory on the Move: Festivals and Parades
  • 9 The Angel of History
  • Postscript: The Reconquest of Montr233;als Memory
  • Notes
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index.