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Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
Time Travel Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
Author: Alan Gordon
In the 1960s, Canadians could step through time to eighteenth-century trading posts or nineteenth-century pioneer towns. These living history museums promised authentic reconstructions of the past but, as Time Travel shows, they revealed more about mid-twentieth-century interests and perceptions of history than they reflected historical fact. Th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780774831543
ISBN-10: 0774831545
Publication Date: 1/27/2017
Pages: 372
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: UBC Press
Book Type: Paperback
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