JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION AUTUMN 2000

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE AUTOMNE 2000

Editor/Directeur

DAVID FRANK

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

LORRAINE COOPS

French Language Editor

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

BURTON GLENDENNING

T.W. ACHESON

MARGARET McCALLUM

SHEILA ANDREW

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

PATRICIA BELIER

STEPHEN PATTERSON

D.G. BELL

SCOTT SEE

MARION BEYEA

WILLIAM SPRAY

RUSTY BITTERMANN

ERIC. L. SWANICK

GAIL CAMPBELL

D.G. THOMPSON

GREGG FINLEY

PETER TONER

E.R. FORBES

D.M. YOUNG

Editorial Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

P.A. BUCKNER

GEORGE MACBEATH

J. MURRAY BECK

COLIN B. MACKAY

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

IAN MCKAY

J.M.S. CARELESS

R.A. MACLEAN

THOMAS J. CONDON

D.A. MUISE

MARGARET CONRAD

ROSEMARY OMMER

JEAN DAIGLE

JOHN G. REID

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ERIC SAGER

JUDITH FINGARD

G.F.G. STANLEY

NAOMI GRIFFITHS

PETER B. WAITE

JAMES HILLER

GRAEME WYNN

COLIN D. HOWELL

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ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXX, NO. 1 (AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 2000)

FORUM

Back to the Future: The New History of Atlantic Canada

INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 3

P.A. BUCKNER “Limited Identities” Revisited: Regionalism and Nationalism in Canadian History ................................................... 4

JAMES K. HILLER

Is Atlantic Canadian History Possible? .................................................................... 16

COLIN D. HOWELL

Development, Deconstruction and Region: A Personal Memoir ............................ 23

GWENDOLYN DAVIES The Three Wise Men of Maritime Literature: A Personal Tribute .......................... 31

JUDITH FINGARD

Focusing on their Roots: University of New Brunswick Historians and Regional History ............................. 38

E.R. FORBES

Dalhousie University and the Flowering of Atlantic Provinces Historiography, 1960-1980 ........................................................ 45

D.A. MUISE

Organizing Historical Memory in the Maritimes: A Reconnaissance ..................... 50

BACK TO THE FUTURE: A DISCUSSION ........................................................ 61

GERALD FRIESEN

Atlantic Canada’s Historical Writing Today: No Howe? ....................................... 64

P.D. CLARKE

L’Acadie perdue; Or, Maritime History’s Other ..................................................... 73

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

MARTIN PÂQUET

Sciences du pouvoir, pouvoir des sciences : quelques tendances de l’historiographie canadienne des sciences .......................... 92

LIANNE McTAVISH

Beyond the Margins: Re-Framing Canadian Art History ..................................... 104

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 118