Remembering 1759: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Memory

by Phillip Buckner and John G. Reid

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Published: May 2012

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Page Count: 336 Pages

Illustrations: 10 illustrations

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ISBN: 9781442612518

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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.

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.

John G. Reid is a professor in the Department of History and a senior fellow at the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University.

Contents

Preface
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I Introduction
II 'The Immortal Wolfe'?: Monuments, Memory, and the Battle of Quebec
III 'Where Famous Heroes Fell': Tourism, History, and Liberalism in Old Quebec
IV In Search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian Views of a Symbolic Landscape, 1793-1913
V History, Historiography, and the Courts: The St. Lawrence Mission Villages and the Fall of New France
VI Interpreting the Past, Shaping the Present, and Envisioning the Future: Remembering the Conquest in Nineteenth-Century Quebec
VII Overcoming a National 'Catastrophe': The British Conquest in the Historical and Polemical Thought of Abbé Lionel Groulx
VIII Intervening with abandon: The Conquest's Legacy in the Canada-Quebec-France Triangle of the 1960s
IX A Nightmare to Awaken From: The Conquest in the Thinking of Québécois Nationalists of the 1960s and After
X Below the Academic Radar: Denis Vaugeois and Constructing the Conquest in the Quebec Popular Imagination
XI Remembering the Conquest: Mission Impossible?
XII What is to be Done with 1759?

History / Canadian History / Introductory Canadian History

History / North American History

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