Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services
Mcgill-queen's University Press
Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
In the Province of History
The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia
-
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2011
About this book
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 - became a template a new kind of profit-making history that exalted whiteness and excluded ethnic minorities, women, and working class movements. A remarkable look at the intersection of politics, leisure, and the presentation of public history, In the Province of History is a revealing account of how a region has both used and distorted its own past.
Author / Editor information
Contributor: Ian McKay
Ian McKay is a professor in the Department of History at Queen's University.
---
Contributor: Robin Bates
Robin Bates is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.
Reviews
"In the Province of History gives a highly provocative and sometimes startling insight into the evolution of Nova Scotia's tourism history. McKay and Bates demonstrate expert archival knowledge, while masterfully sustaining an intellectual narrative, from cover to cover. This highly anticipated book will inform, inspire, and advance alternative understanding of Nova Scotian history. The authors are to be congratulated." Gwendolyn Davies, Professor and Dean Emerita, University of New Brunswick
---
"[McKay] makes his case with passion, sarcasm, and irony." Christopher Moore, Canada's History
---
"In the Province of History gives a highly provocative and sometimes startling insight into the evolution of Nova Scotia's tourism history. McKay and Bates demonstrate expert archival knowledge, while masterfully sustaining an intellectual narrative, from cover to cover. This highly anticipated book will inform, inspire, and advance alternative understanding of Nova Scotian history. The authors are to be congratulated." Gwendolyn Davies, Professor and Dean Emerita, University of New Brunswick
"[McKay] makes his case with passion, sarcasm, and irony." Christopher Moore, Canada's History
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Front Matter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Illustrations
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Acknowledgments
ix -
Download PDFPublicly Available
A Note on Usage
ix -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Prologue: The People of “Canada’s Ocean Playground”
3 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
How a Land without Antiquities Became the Province of History
18 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
This Is the Province Primeval: Evangeline and the Beginnings of Tourism/History
71 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
“All the world was safe and happy”: The Innocence of Will R. Bird
130 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Down the Twisting Path of Destiny: The Impossible Liberalism of Thomas Raddall
200 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Marketing Race: Angus L. Macdonald, Tartanism, and the Cultural Politics of Whiteness
253 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Of Runic Stones and Lockean Dreams: The Triumvirate and Its Treasures, 1935–1964
317 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Conclusion: Is the Romance Ended?
369 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Notes
381 -
Download PDFRequires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
457
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 25, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780773583313
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
494
eBook ISBN:
9780773583313
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
