Main entry:

Gordon, Alan, 1968-

Title & Author:

Making public pasts : the contested terrain of Montréal's public memories, 1891-1930 / Alan Gordon.

Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.

Description:

xvi, [18], 233 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 23 cm

Series:

Studies on the history of Quebec = Études d'histoire du Québec

Notes:
"Bibliographical essay": pages 219-228
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Two Founding Peoples -- 1. Exploring the Boundaries of Public Memory -- 2. Crossroads: Montreal to 1891 -- 3. Grounds for Disagreement: Social and Political Contexts of Montreal, 1891-1930 -- 4. Fissured Heritage Elites -- 5. British Citizenship: Material Progress, Class Harmony, and Imperial Greatness -- 6. Devotion and Rebellion: The Contest for French Canada's 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 Montreal's Memory.

Summary:

"Alan 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 of competitions and ideas about the past that are fashioned in a public sphere and speak primarily about structures of power. It conscripts historical events in a bid to guide shared memories into a coherent narrative that helps individuals negotiate their place in broader collective identities." "The contest over public memories involves an exclusiveness that packages "other" according to the ideological preferences of the dominant cultures. Gordon shows that in Montreal ethnic, class, and gender voices strove to stake their own claims to legitimacy."--Jacket

Resources:
c2001.
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0773522549 (alk. paper)
9780773522541 (alk. paper)

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.
Canadians, English-speaking Québec (Province) Montréal Ethnic identity History.
French-Canadians Québec (Province) Montréal Ethnic identity History.
Canadians, English-speaking Québec (Province) Montréal Anniversaries, etc. History.
French-Canadians Québec (Province) Montréal Anniversaries, etc. History.
Histoire appliquée Québec (Province) Montréal.
Identité collective Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Canadiens anglais Québec (Province) Montréal Conditions sociales.
Canadiens anglais Identité ethnique Québec (Province) Montréal.
Monuments Aspect social Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Histoire appliquée Aspect politique Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire.
Canadiens.
Public history
Group identity
Canadians, English-speaking Social conditions
Ethnic relations
French-Canadians Ethnic identity
French-Canadians Social conditions
Memory Social aspects
Social conditions
Collectief geheugen.
Monumenten.
Etnische conflicten.
Montréal (Québec) Ethnic relations.
Montréal (Québec) Social conditions.
Montréal (Québec) English-French relations History.
Montréal (Québec) Histoire.
Québec Montréal
Monuments Canada Québec (Province) Montréal 1890-1930.
Nationalism Québec (Province) Montréal 1890-1930.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
History

Added entries:

Studies on the history of Quebec.

Holdings:

Location: Library main montreal 218987
Call No.: FC2947.394 .G6 2001
Status: Available