Title: The hero and the historians
Description: "Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero - Jacques Cartier - to explore how notions about the past have been created, passed on through the generations, and used to present particular ideas about the world in English- and French-speaking Canada. He reveals that the cult of celebrity surrounding Cartier by the mid-nineteenth century reflected a particular understanding of history, one which accompanied the arrival of modernity in North America. This new sensibility shaped the political and cultural currents of nation building in Canada. Cartier was a point of contact between English and French Canadian nationalism, but the nature of that contact had profound limitations."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Historiography, Canadian National characteristics, Histoire, Discovery and exploration, French, Historiographie, Canadiens, History, Découverte et exploration françaises, Cartier, jacques, 1491-1557, National characteristics, canadian, Canada, history, to 1763 (new france), America, discovery and exploration, Canada, historiography
Places: Canada
People: Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
Time periods: To 1763 (New France), Jusqu'à 1763 (Nouvelle-France)