Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen

Canadians and Their Pasts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 history in their everyday lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615397
• ISBN-10: 1442615397
• Artikelnr.: 38139388

Autorenporträt

Margaret Conrad is professor emerita in the History Department at University of New Brunswick.

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION Canadians and their Pasts
CHAPTER 1 History in Public
CHAPTER 2 Everybody’s Doing It
CHAPTER 3 The Problem of Trust
CHAPTER 4 Family History in a Globalizing World
CHAPTER 5 Collective Remembering in Three Canadian Communities
CHAPTER 6 Places and Pasts
CHAPTER 7 Immigrants and Historical Memory
CHAPTER 8 The Presence of the Past in International Perspective
CONCLUSION Making History
APPENDIX 1 Questionnaire
APPENDIX 2 How We Did the Survey
Contributors