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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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Gordon has succeeded in offering a very astute and nuanced empirical study that situates history writing in its larger social and political contexts.

-- Daryl Leroux, University of Ottawa * H-Canada *

L’analyse des sources visuelles concernant les sports et la culture associative de Montréal que présente Poulter ouvre une nouvelle perspective sur le rôle identitaire des élites anglo-montréalaises dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle ... Son analyse détaillée et équilibrée intègre avec succès des sources visuelles et textuelles. Le sujet est développé de manière logique et claire, et l’auteur fait montre de rigueur. Il s’agit là d’une importante contribution à l’historiographie concernant le discours identitaire au Canada, qui élargit ce champ d’étude au-delà de la division souvent trop rigide posée entre le Québec et le reste du pays.

-- Gillian I. Leitch, CDCI Research Inc. * Mens *
This book will greatly interest those who wish to better understand the historiographic traditions of nineteenth and twentieth century Canada, particularly Quebec. -- Peter E. Pope, Memorial University * Journal of Historical Biography, Autumn 2010 *

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

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

The Hero and the Historians

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 15/02/2010
      ISBN13: 9780774817417, 978-0774817417
      ISBN10: 0774817410
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review

      Gordon has succeeded in offering a very astute and nuanced empirical study that situates history writing in its larger social and political contexts.

      -- Daryl Leroux, University of Ottawa * H-Canada *

      L’analyse des sources visuelles concernant les sports et la culture associative de Montréal que présente Poulter ouvre une nouvelle perspective sur le rôle identitaire des élites anglo-montréalaises dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle ... Son analyse détaillée et équilibrée intègre avec succès des sources visuelles et textuelles. Le sujet est développé de manière logique et claire, et l’auteur fait montre de rigueur. Il s’agit là d’une importante contribution à l’historiographie concernant le discours identitaire au Canada, qui élargit ce champ d’étude au-delà de la division souvent trop rigide posée entre le Québec et le reste du pays.

      -- Gillian I. Leitch, CDCI Research Inc. * Mens *
      This book will greatly interest those who wish to better understand the historiographic traditions of nineteenth and twentieth century Canada, particularly Quebec. -- Peter E. Pope, Memorial University * Journal of Historical Biography, Autumn 2010 *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      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

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