Phillip Buckner

Remembering 1759

The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory

Buch

This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been used for a variety of cultural, political, and intellectual purposes.The essays contained in this volume investigate topics such as the legacy of 1759 in twentieth-century Quebec; the memorialization of General James Wolfe in a variety of national contexts; and the re-imagination of the Plains of Abraham as a tourist destination. Combined w… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Reid, John G.

ISBN: 978-1-4426-1251-8
EAN: 9781442612518
Produktnummer: 12313777
Verlag: University of Toronto Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 336 S.
Masse: H15.5 cm x B23.0 cm x D2.1 cm 498 g
Abbildungen: 10 illustrations
Gewicht: 498
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Phillip Buckner is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick and a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London. John G. Reid is a professor in the Department of History and a senior fellow at the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University.