Canadians and Their Pasts: The Pasts Collective - Softcover

Conrad, Margaret; Ercikan, Kadriye; Friesen, Gerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442615397 ISBN 13: 9781442615397

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2013

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'It is safe to conclude that Canada is not facing a national crisis of ignorance when it comes to our history. The authors of Canadians and Their Pasts have done us all a great service by proving that it is time to retire that tedious old cliche. -- Daniel Francis Geist summer 2014

Reseña del editor

What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today's world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with history in their everyday lives. The results of their survey form the basis of this eye-opening book. Canadians and Their Pasts reports on the findings of interviews with 3,419 Canadians from a variety of cultural and linguistic communities. Along with yielding rich qualitative data, the surveys generated revealing quantitative data that allows for comparisons based on gender, ethnicity, migration histories, region, age, income, and educational background. The book also brings Canada into international conversation with similar studies undertaken earlier in the United States, Australia, and Europe. Canadians and Their Pasts confirms that, for most Canadians, the past is not dead. Rather, it reveals that our histories continue to shape the present in many powerful ways.

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• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1442615397
• ISBN 13: 9781442615397
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248