Making public pasts : the contested terrain of Montréal's public memories, 1891-1930 /
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 neighbourho...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2001.
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| 叢編: | Studies on the history of Quebec.
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| 在線閱讀: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=404537 |
| 總結: | 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. |
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| 實物描述: | 1 online resource (xvi, [18], 233 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans. |
| 參考書目: | "Bibliographical essay": pages 219-228. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773569584 0773569588 1282859595 9781282859593 9786612859595 6612859598 0773522549 9780773522541 |