Ebook: Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930
Author: Alan Gordon
- Series: Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec, 14
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Language: English
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Between 1891 and 1930 Montreal was a bilingual and increasingly multicultural city. Its "two majorities" struggled to negotiate and commemorate their respective memories in the public spaces of the city, using historic monuments to stake a claim to specific places, streets, and neighbourhoods. In Making Public Pasts Alan Gordon argues that the contest was fundamentally ideological, a competition between major social groups to shape perceptions of history and frame the historical consciousness of individuals.
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