Art in Turmoil
The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76

Richard King (ed.)

The Cultural Revolution was a massive social and political upheaval resulting from a battle for supremacy within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, set in motion by the party’s chairman Mao Zedong. It was also a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, the effects of which still resonate today...read more

One of the Family
Metis Culture in
Nineteenth-Century Northwestern
Saskatchewan

Brenda Macdougall

In recent years there has been growing interest in the social and cultural attributes that define the Metis as both Aboriginal and a distinct people. The study of Metis identity formation has also become one of the most innovative ways to explore cultural encounters and change in North American history and anthropology...read more

The Hero and the Historians
Historiography and the Uses of
Jacques Cartier

Alan Gordon

Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. Alan Gordon focuses on one national hero -- Jacques Cartier -- to explore how notions about the past have been created and passed on from generation to generation in English- and French-speaking Canada and used to present particular ideas about the world...read more