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 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.

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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.

Contents

Preface
Contributors

IIntroduction
II'The Immortal Wolfe'?: Monuments, Memory, and the Battle of Quebec
III'Where Famous Heroes Fell': Tourism, History, and Liberalism in Old Quebec
IVIn Search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian Views of a Symbolic Landscape, 1793-1913
VHistory, Historiography, and the Courts: The St. Lawrence Mission Villages and the Fall of New France
VIInterpreting the Past, Shaping the Present, and Envisioning the Future: Remembering the Conquest in Nineteenth-Century Quebec
VIIOvercoming a National 'Catastrophe': The British Conquest in the Historical and Polemical Thought of Abbé Lionel Groulx
VIIIIntervening with abandon: The Conquest's Legacy in the Canada-Quebec-France Triangle of the 1960s
IXA Nightmare to Awaken From: The Conquest in the Thinking of Québécois Nationalists of the 1960s and After
XBelow the Academic Radar: Denis Vaugeois and Constructing the Conquest in the Quebec Popular Imagination
XIRemembering the Conquest: Mission Impossible?
XIIWhat is to be Done with 1759?

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781442644113
Publisert
2012-05-25
Utgiver
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
600 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
336

Biografisk notat

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.