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ISBN: 9781442676299 (e-book)

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Knowles, Norman James, 1963- Inventing the Loyalists : the Ontario Loyalist tradition and the creation of usable pasts. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c1997 ISBN 9780802079138

Sprache: Englisch

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Inhalt: Showing that the past is often written into present concerns, and that many groups in Ontario, both powerful and disempowered, have invoked the experience of the Loyalists, Knowles significantly revises earlier interpretations of the Loyalist tradition.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. 'Chiefly landholders, farmers, and others': The Loyalist Reality -- , 2. 'An ancestry of which any people might be proud': Official History, the Vernacular Past, and the Shaping of the Loyalist Tradition at Mid-Century -- , 3. 'Loyalism is not dead in Adolphustown': Community Factionalism and the Adolphustown Loyalist Centennial Celebrations of 1884 -- , 4. A sacred trust': The 1884 Toronto, Niagara, and Six Nations Loyalist Centennial Celebrations and the Politics of Commemoration -- , 5. 'Fairy tales in the guise of history': The Loyalists in Ontario Publications, 1884-1918 -- , 6. 'Object lessons': Loyalist Monuments and the Creation of Usable Pasts -- , 7. 'A further and more enduring mark of honour': The Middle Class and the United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896-1914 -- , Conclusion -- , Appendices -- , Notes -- , Select Bibliography -- , Picture Credits -- , Index

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.3138/9781442676299

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442676299

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442676299