Description: How a region sells - and misrepresents - its past
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Ian McKay is L.R. Wilson Chair of Canadian History, director of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University, and author of The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia.
Ian McKay is a professor in the Department of History at Queen's University.Review Quotes: "In the Province of History gives a highly provocative and sometimes startling insight into the evolution of Nova Scotia's tourism history. McKay and Bates demonstrate expert archival knowledge, while masterfully sustaining an intellectual narrative, from cover to cover. This highly anticipated book will inform, inspire, and advance alternative understanding of Nova Scotian history. The authors are to be congratulated." Gwendolyn Davies, Professor and Dean Emerita, University of New Brunswick