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Afterword: historical geographies of colonialism: comments on the intergenerational bridge.

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Bonheur de ces ouvrages de critique americaine qui ne denigrent pas, ne denoncent pas, mais plongent dans la problematique de l'oeuvre critiquee, cherchent a la rendre la plus consistante possible, a en degager toutes les possibilites pour que le travail effectue puisse s'inscrire dans une histoire cumulative. (Francois Ewald, >, Magazine litteraire, no 219, 1984, p. 70).

When Caroline Desbiens invited me to participate as a discussant at a Canadian Association of Geographers session entitled 'Historical Geography: Emerging Themes and Continuities' (London, Ontario, June 2005), (1) my first reaction was to tell myself that I would be more inspired to listen than to comment. However, the invitation was so kind and wishful as to its benefits to the young Canadian generation of historical geographers that I finally accepted, in the hope that my contribution would serve the cause to which it was intended. And indeed, while the general purpose of the session was to explore how historical geography has been enriched through exchange with other disciplines, and how these exchanges have contributed to reinforcing historical geography as a body of know-how and knowledge, I was to pinpoint the orientations of the emerging historical geography, and to say in what ways it was similar or different to that of former generations. One way I had to answer these questions was to find common issues between the papers and to put them in a larger perspective in order to...

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