Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buckner, Phillip A. (Phillip Alfred), 1942-
• Reid, John G., 1948-
• University of London

Description

viii, 317 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "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."--Pub. desc.

Subject

• 1759
• Collective memory > Canada
• Collective memory > Québec (Province)
• Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, Québec, 1759 > Anniversaries, etc
• Québec Campaign, Québec, 1759 > Anniversaries, etc

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Companion volume to: Revisiting 1759, the conquest of Canada in historical perspective, edited by Phillip Buckner and John G. Reid (University of Toronto Press, 2012).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'The immortal Wolfe'? Monuments, memory, and the Battle of Quebec / Joan Coutu and John McAleer -- 'Where famous heroes fell': Tourism, history, and liberalism in Old Quebec / Alan Gordon -- In search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian views of a symbolic landscape, 1793-1913 / J.I. Little -- History, historiography, and the courts: The St. Lawrence mission villages and the fall of New France / Jean-François Lozier -- Interpreting the past, shaping the present, and envisioning the future: Remembering the Conquest in nineteenth-century Quebec / Michel Ducharme -- Overcoming a national 'catastrophe': The British conquest in the historical and polemical thought of Abbé Lionel Groulx / Michel Bock -- Intervening with abondon: The Conquest's legacy in the Canada-Quebec-France triangle of the 1960s / David Meren -- A nightmare to awaken from: The Conquest in the thinking of Québécois nationalists of the 1960s and after / Alexis Lachaine -- Below the academic radar: Denis Vaugeois and constructing the Conquest in the Quebec popular imagination / Brian Young -- Remembering the Conquest: Mission impossible? / Nicole Neatby -- What is to be done with 1759? / Jocelyn Létourneau.

ISBN

• 9781442644113 (bound)
• 1442644117 (bound)
• 9781442612518 (pbk.)
• 1442612517 (pbk.)

OCLC

780360748

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library