Description
Book SynopsisCombined 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.
Table of ContentsContents Preface Contributors I Introduction II 'The Immortal Wolfe'?: Monuments, Memory, and the Battle of Quebec III 'Where Famous Heroes Fell': Tourism, History, and Liberalism in Old Quebec IV In Search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian Views of a Symbolic Landscape, 1793-1913 V History, Historiography, and the Courts: The St. Lawrence Mission Villages and the Fall of New France VI Interpreting the Past, Shaping the Present, and Envisioning the Future: Remembering the Conquest in Nineteenth-Century Quebec VII Overcoming a National 'Catastrophe': The British Conquest in the Historical and Polemical Thought of Abb Lionel Groulx VIII Intervening with abandon: The Conquest's Legacy in the Canada-Quebec-France Triangle of the 1960s IX A Nightmare to Awaken From: The Conquest in the Thinking of Qu b cois Nationalists of the 1960s and After X Below the Academic Radar: Denis Vaugeois and Constructing the Conquest in the Quebec Popular Imagination XI Remembering the Conquest: Mission Impossible? XII What is to be Done with 1759?
