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History Pre-confederation (to 1867)

Remembering 1759

The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory

by (author) Phillip Buckner & John G. Reid

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2012
Category
Pre-Confederation (to 1867), General, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442644113
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $85.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442612518
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $44.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442699243
    Publish Date
    May 2012
    List Price
    $34.95

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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.

 

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