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

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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 partic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gordon, Alan, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Cartier, Jacques, > 1491-1557.
Cartier, Jacques, > 1491-1557
To 1763
National characteristics, Canadian > Historiography.
Canadiens > Historiographie.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Canada > Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
Historiography
Canada > History > To 1763 (New France) > Historiography.
Canada > Discovery and exploration > French > Historiography.
Canada > Historiography.
Canada > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1763 (Nouvelle-France) > Historiographie.
Canada > Découverte et exploration françaises > Historiographie.
Canada > Historiographie.
Canada
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The sixteenth-century world and Jacques Cartier
  • Forgetting and remembering
  • The invention of a hero
  • Cartiermania
  • Common sense
  • The many meanings of Jacques Cartier
  • Decline and dispersal
  • Failure and forgetting.

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