History Pre-confederation (to 1867)
Remembering 1759
The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2012
- Category
- Pre-Confederation (to 1867), General, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442644113
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $85.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442612518
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $44.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442699243
- Publish Date
- May 2012
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been used for a variety of cultural, political, and intellectual purposes.
The essays contained in this volume investigate topics such as the legacy of 1759 in twentieth-century Quebec; the memorialization of General James Wolfe in a variety of national contexts; and the re-imagination of the Plains of Abraham as a tourist destination. Combined 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.
About the authors
Phillip Buckner is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick and a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London.
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John G. Reid is a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University and Senior Research Fellow of the Gorsebrook Research Institute. He has published books and articles on northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.