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The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New
Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier
and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968,
students took to the streets, demanding further concessions.
Belliveau debunks the idea that students were simply heirs to a
long line of nationalists seeking more rights for francophones. The
student movement emerged in the late 1950s as an expression of the
province’s changing youth culture and then evolved as students
drew inspiration from the New Left. They shifted allegiance from
liberalism to radical communitarianism and ultimately fuelled a new
brand of Acadian nationalism in the 1970s.
Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and
historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section
of Canadians who served in the First World War. All Canadians are
taught about Vimy Ridge, but that celebrated victory was just one
battle among many to shape the country’s experience of the war.
These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on
war memorials provide a fresh and nuanced perspective on the
complex legacy of the Great War in Canadian history.
Portraits of Battle brings together biography, battle accounts, and
historiographical analysis to examine the lives of a cross-section
of Canadians who served in the First World War. All Canadians are
taught about Vimy Ridge, but that celebrated victory was just one
battle among many to shape the country's experience of the war.
These portraits of the formerly faceless men and women honoured on
war memorials provide a fresh and nuanced perspective on the
complex legacy of the Great War in Canadian history.
Does history matter any more? In an era when both the past and
memory seem to be sources of considerable interest and, frequently,
lively debate, has the academic discipline of history ceased to
offer the connection between past and present experience that it
was originally intended to provide? In short, has History become a
bridge to nowhere, a structure over a river whose course has been
permanently altered? This is the overarching question that the
contributors to The River of History : Trans-national and
Trans-disciplinary Perspectives on the Immanence of the Past seek
to answer. Drawn from a broad spectrum of scholarly disciplines,
the authors tackle a wide range of more specific questions touching
on this larger one. Does history, as it is practised in
universities, provide any useful context for the average Canadian
or has the task of historical consciousness-shaping passed to
filmmakers and journalists? What can the history of Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal conceptions of land and property tell us about
contemporary relations between these cultures? Is there a way to
own the past that fosters sincere stock-taking without proprietary
interest or rigid notions of linearity? And, finally, what does the
history of technological change suggest about humanity's ability to
manage the process now and in the future? The philosopher
Heraclitus once likened history to a river and argued for its
otherness by stating that "No man can cross the same river twice,
because neither the man nor the river is the same." This collection
reconsiders this conceptualization, taking the reader on a journey
along the river in an effort to better comprehend the ways in which
past, present, and future are interconnected. With Contributions
By: Jeffrey Scott Brown A.R. Buck Carol B. Duncan Peter Farrugia
James Gerrie Leo Groarke Stephen F.Haller John S. Hill John McLaren
M. Carleton Simpson Robert Wright Nancy E. Wright
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