Notes for a More Sensuous History of Twentieth-Century Canada: The Timely, the Tacit, and the Material Body

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Eric Hobsbawm, in his much-praised book Age of Extremes, argues that the 'destruction of the past, or rather the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in a permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times in which they live.' In an effort to sustain our collective historical memory, the editors of the CHR invited some of the nation's most respected historians to reflect on themes that they consider helped to define Canada in the twentieth century. Their articles will appear as an ongoing feature of the CHR Forum in the regularly scheduled issues of the journal during the years 2000 and 2001.

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