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The Contested Past

Reading Canada's History - Selections from the Canadian Historical Review

edited by Marlene Shore

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Feb 2002
Category
General, Historiography
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802081339
    Publish Date
    Feb 2002
    List Price
    $48.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802043054
    Publish Date
    Feb 2002
    List Price
    $100.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442680906
    Publish Date
    Feb 2002
    List Price
    $97.00

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This collection of selected excerpts focuses on The Canadian Historical Review's contribution to the study of Canadian history from the journal's founding in 1920 to the present. Using the CHR's own interconnected objectives as a benchmark - the promotion of high standards of historical research and writing in Canada, and the fostering of the study of Canadian history - Marlene Shore analyses the varying degrees of success the journals had in meeting its those goals. Her introductory essay shows how the CHR was shaped not only by its own editorial policies, but by international currents affecting the discipline of history and its practitioners.

The excerpts, each accompanied by critical commentary, were chosen as representative of the major trends, crucial studies, and main controversies in Canadian historical writing. Shore has arranged them chronologically and thematically into four sections: Nation and Diversity, 1920-1939; War, Centralization, and Reaction, 1940-1965; The Renewal of Diversity, 1966 to the Present; and Reflections. Among the key themes explored by Shore and the contributing historians, Native-European contact, society and war, the nature of Canadian and Quebec nationalism, class-consciousness, and gender politics are highlighted. Broad in scope and focused in intent, The Contested Past offers an excellent introduction to Twentieth Century Canadian history and historiography.

About the author

Marlene Shore is Associate Professor of History, and Chair-Elect of the Department of History at York University. Her first book discussed the origins of social research in Canada; her area of specialty is modern cultural history.

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