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Canadians and Their Pasts / Jocelyn LeĢtourneau, David Northrup, Margaret Conrad, D.A. Muise, Gerald Friesen, Kadriye Ercikan, Peter Seixas.

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What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today's world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with his...

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Main Authors: Conrad, Margaret (Author), Ercikan, Kadriye (Author), Friesen, Gerald (Author), Muise, D.A (Author), Northrup, David (Author), Seixas, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Collective memory > Canada.
Collective memory > Canada.
History > Social aspects > Canada.
History > Social aspects > Canada.
Interviews > Canada.
Interviews > Canada.
Memory > Social aspects > Canada.
Memory > Social aspects > Canada.
Public history > Canada.
Public history > Canada.
Collective memory
Interviews
Memory > Social aspects
Public history
Canada
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Canadians and Their Pasts
  • 1. History in Public
  • 2. Everybody's Doing It
  • 3. The Problem of Trust
  • 4. Family History in a Globalizing World
  • 5. Collective Remembering in Three Canadian Communities
  • 6. Places and Pasts
  • 7. Immigration and Historical Memory
  • 8. The Presence of the Past in International Perspective
  • Conclusion: Making History
  • Appendix 1: Short Form Questionnaire
  • Appendix 2: How We Did the Survey
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors: Canadians and Their Pasts
  • Index

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