Review essay: Harsh sentences: Appealing the strange verdict of who killed Canadian history?

American Review of Canadian Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 167-176

  Carr, Graham ^a  

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EID: 0039702593     PISSN: 02722011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02722019809481568     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. J.H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (1969; reprint Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970); Henry A. Giroux, "Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History" (1979), reprinted in Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981), 37-62; Michael Bliss, "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (1991-92): 5-17; Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering our Past (New York: Free Press, 1997); and Francis Fukiyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992) .
2. J.H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (1969; reprint Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970); Henry A. Giroux, "Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History" (1979), reprinted in Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981), 37-62; Michael Bliss, "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (1991-92): 5-17; Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering our Past (New York: Free Press, 1997); and Francis Fukiyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992) .
3. J.H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (1969; reprint Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970); Henry A. Giroux, "Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History" (1979), reprinted in Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981), 37-62; Michael Bliss, "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (1991-92): 5-17; Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering our Past (New York: Free Press, 1997); and Francis Fukiyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992) .
4. J.H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (1969; reprint Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970); Henry A. Giroux, "Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History" (1979), reprinted in Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981), 37-62; Michael Bliss, "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (1991-92): 5-17; Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering our Past (New York: Free Press, 1997); and Francis Fukiyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992) .
5. J.H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (1969; reprint Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970); Henry A. Giroux, "Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History" (1979), reprinted in Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981), 37-62; Michael Bliss, "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (1991-92): 5-17; Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering our Past (New York: Free Press, 1997); and Francis Fukiyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992) .
6. J.H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (1969; reprint Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970); Henry A. Giroux, "Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History" (1979), reprinted in Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981), 37-62; Michael Bliss, "Privatizing the Mind: The Sundering of Canadian History, the Sundering of Canada," Journal of Canadian Studies 26 (1991-92): 5-17; Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering our Past (New York: Free Press, 1997); and Francis Fukiyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992) .
7. The references to "hard facts" and "hard things that you have to learn" come from an interview with J.L. Granatstein about Who Killed Canadian History? on As It Happens, CBC Radio 1, 30 April 1998 (Interviewer Mary Lou Finlay). The phrase "hard obligations of citizenship" is taken from J.L. Granatstein, "The 'Hard' Obligations of Citizenship: The Second World War in Canada," in William Kaplan, ed., Belonging: The Meaning and Future of Canadian Citizenship (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993), 36-49.
8. The references to "hard facts" and "hard things that you have to learn" come from an interview with J.L. Granatstein about Who Killed Canadian History? on As It Happens, CBC Radio 1, 30 April 1998 (Interviewer Mary Lou Finlay). The phrase "hard obligations of citizenship" is taken from J.L. Granatstein, "The 'Hard' Obligations of Citizenship: The Second World War in Canada," in William Kaplan, ed., Belonging: The Meaning and Future of Canadian Citizenship (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993), 36-49.
9. See the chapter, "Canadian and Other Useless Studies," in David J. Bercuson, Robert Bothwell, and J.L. Granatstein, The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road to Ruin (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984), 130-146.
10. Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York: Routledge, 1997), 2.
11. J .L. Granatstein, "A Half-Century On: The Veterans' Experience," in Peter Neary and J.L. Granatstein, eds., The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998), 224-231.
12. The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada.
13. The citation for the Macdonald Prize appears in the CHA Bulletin 24 (1998): 16. The book was published by University of British Columbia Press.
14. John Slater, The Politics of History Teaching: A Humanity Dehumanized? (London: Institute of Education, 1989), 5.