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Remembering 1759 : the conquest of Canada in historical memory
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- ISBN: 9781442612518
- ISBN: 1442612517
- ISBN: 9781442644113
- ISBN: 1442644117
- ISBN: 9781442612518
- ISBN: 9781442644113
- ISBN: 144269923X
- ISBN: 9781442699236
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Papers from the conference on 1759 Revisited: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective, held at the University of London, 2009. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 'The immortal Wolfe'? Monuments, memory, and the Battle of Quebec / Joan Coutu and John McAleer -- 'Where famous heroes fell': Tourism, history, and liberalism in Old Quebec / Alan Gordon -- In search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian views of a symbolic landscape, 1793-1913 / J.I. Little -- History, historiography, and the courts: The St. Lawrence mission villages and the fall of New France / Jean-François Lozier -- Interpreting the past, shaping the present, and envisioning the future: Remembering the Conquest in nineteenth-century Quebec / Michel Ducharme -- Overcoming a national 'catastrophe': The British conquest in the historical and polemical thought of Abbé Lionel Groulx / Michel Bock -- Intervening with abondon: The Conquest's legacy in the Canada-Quebec-France triangle of the 1960s / David Meren -- A nightmare to awaken from: The Conquest in the thinking of Québécois nationalists of the 1960s and after / Alexis Lachaine -- Below the academic radar: Denis Vaugeois and constructing the Conquest in the Quebec popular imagination / Brian Young -- Remembering the Conquest: Mission impossible? / Nicole Neatby -- What is to be done with 1759? / Jocelyn Létourneau. |
| Language Note: | Includes some text in French. |
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