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Author Gordon, Alan, 1968-

Title Making public pasts : the contested terrain of Montréal's public memories, 1891-1930 / Alan Gordon
Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, [18], 233 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
Series Studies on the history of Quebec = Études d'histoire du Québec
Studies on the history of Quebec.
Contents Cover13; -- Contents13; -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface: Two Founding Peoples -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Exploring the Boundaries of Public Memory -- 2 Crossroads: Montr233;al to 1891 -- 3 Grounds for Disagreement: Social and Political Contexts of Montr233;al, 1891 1930 -- 4 Fissured Heritage Elites -- 5 British Citizenship: Material Progress, Class Harmony, and Imperial Greatness -- 6 Devotion and Rebellion: The Contest for French Canadas Public Memory -- 7 Contested Terrain, Contiguous Territory -- 8 Public Memory on the Move: Festivals and Parades -- 9 The Angel of History -- Postscript: The Reconquest of Montr233;als Memory -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index
Summary Between 1891 and 1930 Montreal was a bilingual and increasingly multicultural city. Its "two majorities" struggled to negotiate and commemorate their respective memories in the public spaces of the city, using historic monuments to stake a claim to specific places, streets, and neighbourhoods. In Making Public Pasts Alan Gordon argues that the contest was fundamentally ideological, a competition between major social groups to shape perceptions of history and frame the historical consciousness of individuals
Bibliography "Bibliographical essay": pages 219-228
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Canadians, English-speaking -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Social conditions
French-Canadians -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Social conditions
Canadians, English-speaking -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Ethnic identity
French-Canadians -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Ethnic identity
Memory -- Social aspects -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History
Monuments -- Social aspects -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History
Public history -- Political aspects -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History
National characteristics, Canadian.
Public history -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal
Group identity -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History
Monuments.
Nationalism.
Canadians.
monuments.
Canada.
Québec (Province)
Montréal.
1890-1930.
nationalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Public history
Nationalism
Monuments
Group identity
Canadians
Social conditions
National characteristics, Canadian
Memory -- Social aspects
French-Canadians -- Social conditions
French-Canadians -- Ethnic identity
Canadians, English-speaking -- Social conditions
Ethnic relations
Collectief geheugen.
Monumenten.
Etnische conflicten.
SUBJECT Montréal (Québec) -- Ethnic relations
Montréal (Québec) -- Social conditions
Subject Québec -- Montréal
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004274486
ISBN 9780773569584
0773569588
1282859595
9781282859593
9786612859595
6612859598