Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930 Volume 14

by Alan Gordon

Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditions, monuments, historic sites, and the celebration of anniversaries and festivals serve to order individual and collective perceptions of the past. Public memory is therefore the product of competitions and ideas about the past that are fashioned in a public sphere and speak primarily about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773522549
• ISBN13: 9780773522541
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"