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    History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s

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    Collections series Themes in Canadian History
    Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas.Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been important, Cecilia Morgan describes the growth of historical pageantry, popular history, textbooks, ... En savoir plus

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    English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930

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    One of the most revealing things about national character is the way that citizens react to and report on their travels abroad. Oftentimes a tourist's experience with a foreign place says as much about their country of origin as it does about their destination. A Happy Holiday examines the travels of English-speaking Canadian men and women to Britain and Europe during the late nineteenth and early ... En savoir plus

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  • Gendered Pasts

    Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada

    Collections series Canadian Social History Series
    It is commonplace today to suggest that gender is socially constructed, that the roles women and men fulfill in their daily lives have been created and defined for them by society and social institutions. But how have men and women negotiated and navigated the gender roles that have been thrust upon them? With Gendered Pasts, Kathryn McPherson, Cecilia Morgan, and Nancy M. Forestell have collected ... En savoir plus

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    Settler Societies in the British World, 1783-1920

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    History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario, 1860-1980

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  • Travellers through Empire

    Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada

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