HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dialectic
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Canada as a history of the present, or history as a way of life. This was undertaken by a specific identifiable group (middle class, ruling class, upper class etc. ) Different levels of resistance as well there is formal (political party, ccp, War/vimy ridge the meaning of the war is different from that of an officer or a soldier their perspectives are different. The ways in which the meanings of the event at the time turns out to have the meanings created much later and later went then projected back onto the event (vimy. Ridge birth of canada when in actuality it was long after that people began to think like this). Recognizing these multiple meanings exist, all these meanings don"t exist in equal relationship to each other, some groups have more access to resources that can get their version of the memory out there.