Remembering 1759 the conquest of Canada in historical memory /
edited by Phillip Buckner and John G. Reid.
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) : illustrations.
Papers from the conference on 1759 Revisited: The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective, held at the University of London, 2009.
Includes bibliographies and index.
'The immortal Wolfe'? Monuments, memory, and the Battle of Quebec / 'Where famous heroes fell': Tourism, history, and liberalism in Old Quebec / In search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian views of a symbolic landscape, 1793-1913 / History, historiography, and the courts: The St. Lawrence mission villages and the fall of New France / Interpreting the past, shaping the present, and envisioning the future: Remembering the Conquest in nineteenth-century Quebec / Overcoming a national 'catastrophe': The British conquest in the historical and polemical thought of Abbé Lionel Groulx / Intervening with abondon: The Conquest's legacy in the Canada-Quebec-France triangle of the 1960s / A nightmare to awaken from: The Conquest in the thinking of Québécois nationalists of the 1960s and after / Below the academic radar: Denis Vaugeois and constructing the Conquest in the Quebec popular imagination / Remembering the Conquest: Mission impossible? / What is to be done with 1759? / Joan Coutu and John McAleer -- Alan Gordon -- J.I. Little -- Jean-François Lozier -- Michel Ducharme -- Michel Bock -- David Meren -- Alexis Lachaine -- Brian Young -- Nicole Neatby -- Jocelyn Létourneau.