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In the Province of History

Author : Ian McKay

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 494 pages

File Size : 50,61 MB

Release : 2010-05-18

Category : History

ISBN : 0773583319

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Using archival sources, novels, government reports, and works on tourism and heritage, Ian McKay and Robin Bates look at how state planners, key politicians, and cultural figures such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, long-time premier Angus L. Macdonald, and novelist Thomas Raddall were all instrumental in forming "tourism/history." The authors argue that Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline - on the brutal British expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia - became a template a new kind of profit-making history that exalted whiteness and excluded ethnic minorities, women, and working class movements. A remarkable look at the intersection of politics, leisure, and the presentation of public history, In the Province of History is a revealing account of how a region has both used and distorted its own past.



English Historical Documents

Author : D.B. Horn

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 1008 pages

File Size : 47,3 MB

Release : 2024-11-01

Category : History

ISBN : 104028485X

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English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of documents on English history ever published. An authoritative work of primary evidence, each volume presents material with exemplary scholarly accuracy. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation. Documents collected include treaties, personal letters, statutes, military dispatches, diaries, declarations, newspaper articles, government and cabinet proceedings, orders, acts, sermons, pamphlets, agricultural instructions, charters, grants, guild regulations and voting records. Volumes are furnished with lavish extra apparatus including genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.



The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline

Author : Arthur G. Sir Doughty

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 90 pages

File Size : 45,39 MB

Release : 2022-09-05

Category : History

ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline" by Arthur G. Sir Doughty. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.





Evaluative ethno-historical bibliography of the Malecite Indians

Author : Michel R. P. Herisson

Publisher : University of Ottawa Press

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 46,77 MB

Release : 1974-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1772821780

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This bibliography aims for complete coverage of primary sources, both published and unpublished, of Malecite ethnology.



Myth, Symbol and Colonial Encounter

Author : Jennifer Reid

Publisher : University of Ottawa Press

Page : 145 pages

File Size : 50,84 MB

Release : 1995

Category : History

ISBN : 0776604163

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From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (traditionally called Acadia) with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. Despite nearly three centuries of interaction, these communities have largely remained alienated from one another. What were the differences between Mi'kmaq and British structures of valuation? What were the consequences of Acadia's colonization for both Mi'kmaq and British people? By examining the symbolic and mythic lives of these peoples, Reid considers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots of this alienation and suggests that interaction between British and Mi'kmaq during the period was substantially determined by each group's fundamental religious need to feel rooted - to feel at home in Acadia.