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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckner, Phillip A. (Phillip Alfred), 1942-

Reid, John G., 1948-

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Québec Campaign, Québec, 1759--Anniversaries, etc.

Québec Campaign, Québec, 1759.

Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, Québec, 1759--Anniversaries, etc.

Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, Québec, 1759.

Collective memory--Québec (Province).

Collective memory.

Collective memory--Canada.

Québec Campaign, Québec, 1759--Anniversaries, etc--Congresses.

Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, Québec, 1759--Anniversaries, etc--Congresses.

Collective memory--Québec (Province)--Congresses.

Collective memory--Canada--Congresses.

Canada.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]

Language Note:

Includes some text in French.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Phillip Buckner Buckner, Phillip, John G. Reid Reid, John G. 3

2 The Immortal Wolfe'? Monuments, Memory, and the Battle of Quebec / Joan Coutu Coutu, Joan, John Mcaleer Mcaleer, John 29

3 'Where Famous Heroes Fell': Tourism, History, and Liberalism in Old Quebec / Alan Gordon Gordon, Alan 58

4 In Search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian Views of a Symbolic Landscape, 1793-1913 / J.I. Little Little, J.I. 82

5 History, Historiography, and the Courts: The St Lawrence Mission Villages and the Fall of New France / Jean-François Lozier Lozier, Jean-François 110

6 Interpreting the Past, Shaping the Present, and Envisioning the Future: Remembering the Conquest in Nineteenth-Century Quebec / Michel Ducharme Ducharme, Michel 136

7 Overcoming a National 'Catastrophe': The British Conquest in the Historical and Polemical Thought of Abbé Lionel Groulx / Michel Bock Bock, Michel 161

8 Intervening with abandon: The Conquest's Legacy in the Canada-Quebec-France Triangle of the 1960s / David Meren Meren, David 186

9 A Nightmare to Awaken from: The Conquest in the Thinking of Québécois Nationalists of the 1960s and After / Alexis Lachaine Lachaine, Alexis 211

10 Below the Academic Radar: Denis Vaugeois and Constructing the Conquest in the Quebec Popular Imagination / Brian Young Young, Brian 226

11 Remembering the Conquest: Mission Impossible? / Nicole Neatby Neatby, Nicole 251

12 What Is to Be Done with 1759? / Jocelyn Létourneau Létourneau, Jocelyn 279.

Notes:

Papers from the conference on 1759 Revisited: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective, held at the University of London, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442644113

1442644117

9781442612518

1442612517

OCLC:

780360748