{"product_id":"inventing-the-loyalists-the-ontario-loyalist-tradition-and-the-creation-of-usable-pasts-9780802079138","title":"Inventing the Loyalists: The Ontario Loyalist Tradition and the Creation of Usable Pasts","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventing the Loyalists\u003c\/i\u003e traces the evolution of the Loyalist tradition from the Loyalists' arrival in Upper Canada in 1784 until the present. It explores how the Loyalist tradition was produced, established, and maintained, delineates the roles particular social groups and localities played in constructing differing versions of the Loyalist past, and examines the reception of these efforts by the larger community. Rejecting both consensual and hegemonic models, Knowles presents a pluralistic understanding of the invention of tradition as a complex process of social and cultural negotiation by which different groups, interests, and generations compete with each other over the content, meaning, and uses of the past. He demonstrates that in Ontario, many groups, including filiopietistic descendants, political propagandists, status-conscious professionals, reform-minded women, and Native peoples, invested in the creation of the Loyalist tradition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy exploring the ways in which the Loyalist past was, and still is, being negotiated, \u003ci\u003eInventing the Loyalists\u003c\/i\u003e revises our understanding of the Loyalist tradition and provides insight into the politics of commemoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman Knowles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802079138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnowles, Norman:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eNorman J. Knowles\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at St. Mary's University in Calgary, Alberta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40389513609331,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":59.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6bdb9697-27dd-4b2e-81ff-8f7690043bd4.jpg?v=1661608991","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/inventing-the-loyalists-the-ontario-loyalist-tradition-and-the-creation-of-usable-pasts-9780802079138","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}