ebooks A Concise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities throughout History (Volume 2: 1500) by Brian A. Pavlac in History

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This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered; commemorated; interpreted; and reinterpreted by groups in Canada; France; Great Britain; the United States; and most of all; in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been used for a variety of cultural; political; and intellectual purposes.The essays contained in this volume investigate topics such as the legacy of 1759 in twentieth-century Quebec; the memorialization of General James Wolfe in a variety of national contexts; and the re-imagination of the Plains of Abraham as a tourist destination. Combined with Revisiting 1759; this collection provides readers with the most comprehensive; wide-ranging assessment to date of the lasting effects of the Conquest of Canada.