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Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930 (Studies on the History of Quebec)
Making Public Pasts The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories 1891-1930 - Studies on the History of Quebec
Author: Alan Gordon
Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, and the celebration of anniversaries and festivals serve to order individual and collective perceptions of the past. Public memory is therefore the product...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780773522541
ISBN-10: 0773522549
Publication Date: 12/2001
Pages: 288
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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