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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.
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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, historiographyPeople
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The hero and the historians: historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier
2010, UBC Press
in English
0774817429 9780774817424
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index.
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