Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Remembering 1759 : the conquest of Canada in historical memory / edited by Phillip Buckner and John G. Reid

Published
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Buckner, Phillip A. (Phillip Alfred), 1942- and Reid, John G., 1948-
Access Online

Availability

I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Language Note
Includes some text in French.
Contents
'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 abandon: 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.
Summary
Combined with Revisiting 1759, this collection provides readers with the most comprehensive, wide-ranging assessment to date of the lasting effects of the Conquest of Canada.
Subject(s)
Genre(s)
ISBN
9781442699236 (electronic bk.)
144269923X (electronic bk.)
9781442644113 (bound)
9781442612518 (pbk.)
1442644117 (bound : acid-free paper)
9781442644113
1442612517 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9781442612518
Note
Papers from the conference on 1759 Revisited: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective, held at the University of London, 2009.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
View MARC record | catkey: 42857961