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The Hero and the Historians : Historiography and the Uses of Jacques Cartier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774817431
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Hero and the HistoriansDDC classification:
  • 971.01/13092
LOC classification:
  • E133.C3G67 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1 The Sixteenth-Century World and Jacques Cartier -- 2 Forgetting and Remembering -- 3 The Invention of a Hero -- 4 Cartiermania -- 5 Common Sense -- 6 The Many Meanings of Jacques Cartier -- 7 Decline and Dispersal -- 8 Failure and Forgetting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This unique exploration of commemoration and memory traces Jacque Cartier's evolving image over five centuries to show how changing notions of the past have shaped identity formation and nationalism in English- and French-speaking Canada.
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Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1 The Sixteenth-Century World and Jacques Cartier -- 2 Forgetting and Remembering -- 3 The Invention of a Hero -- 4 Cartiermania -- 5 Common Sense -- 6 The Many Meanings of Jacques Cartier -- 7 Decline and Dispersal -- 8 Failure and Forgetting -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This unique exploration of commemoration and memory traces Jacque Cartier's evolving image over five centuries to show how changing notions of the past have shaped identity formation and nationalism in English- and French-speaking Canada.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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