In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

by Robin Bates and Ian McKay

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077353704X
• ISBN13: 9780773537040
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 481 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"