UID:
almafu_9958353234802883
Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442676299
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 --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. 'Chiefly landholders, farmers, and others': The Loyalist Reality --
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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 --
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3. 'Loyalism is not dead in Adolphustown': Community Factionalism and the Adolphustown Loyalist Centennial Celebrations of 1884 --
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4. A sacred trust': The 1884 Toronto, Niagara, and Six Nations Loyalist Centennial Celebrations and the Politics of Commemoration --
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5. 'Fairy tales in the guise of history': The Loyalists in Ontario Publications, 1884-1918 --
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6. 'Object lessons': Loyalist Monuments and the Creation of Usable Pasts --
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7. 'A further and more enduring mark of honour': The Middle Class and the United Empire Loyalist Association of Ontario, 1896-1914 --
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Conclusion --
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Appendices --
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Notes --
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Select Bibliography --
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Picture Credits --
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Index
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.3138/9781442676299
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442676299
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442676299
