Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen

Canadians and Their Pasts

• Gebundenes 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
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781442647268
• ISBN-10: 1442647264
• Artikelnr.: 38137652

Autorenporträt

By Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen, Jocelyn Létourneau, Delphin Muise, David Northrup, and Peter Seixas

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