The hero and the historians : historiography and the uses of Jacques Cartier / Alan Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Alan, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557.

Cartier, Jacques.

National characteristics, Canadian--Historiography.

National characteristics, Canadian.

Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)--Historiography.

Canada.

Canada--Discovery and exploration--French--Historiography.

Canada--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Translations

Introduction

The Sixteenth-Century World and Jacques Cartier

Forgetting and Remembering

The Invention of a Hero

Cartiermania

Common Sense

The Many Meanings of Jacques Cartier

Decline and Dispersal

Failure and Forgetting

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-231) and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-1742-9

0-7748-1743-7

OCLC:

829930014