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Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts

Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts

Knowles, Norman

Paperback

Canadian HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 080207913X
ISBN13: 9780802079138
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Oct 11 1997
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The Loyalists have often been credited with planting a coherent and unified tradition that has been passed on virtually unchanged to subsequent generations and that continues to define Ontario's political culture. Challenging past scholarship, Norman Knowles argues that there never has been consensus on the defining characteristics of the Loyalist tradition. He suggests that, in fact, the very concept of tradition has constantly been subject to appropriation by various constituencies who wish to legitimize their point of view and their claim to status by creating a usable past. The picture of the Loyalist tradition that emerges from this study is not of an inherited artefact but of a contested and dynamic phenomenon that has undergone continuous change.

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