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A Short History of Quebec
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

A Short History of Quebec

This fully revised edition of A Short History of Quebec includes expanded coverage of Quebec's political history, consideration of recent historiographical interpretations, updated tables and bibliography, a chronology, and new illustrations.In a new chapter on contemporary Quebec, the book examines the 1995 referendum, discusses the ideological shifts and societal changes in Quebec under the Bouchard government, and considers Quebec's place in North America in the wake of NAFTA. A Short History of Quebec offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the province from the pre-contact native period to the death of Pierre Trudeau in 2001. The authors provide an insightful perspective on the history of Quebec, focusing on the social, economic, and political development of the region and its peoples. Engagingly written, this expanded and updated third edition is an ideal starting place to learn about Quebec.

Une histoire religieuse du Québec
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 196

Une histoire religieuse du Québec

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-29T00:00:00-04:00
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  • Publisher: Novalis

Un ouvrage essentiel pour comprendre les rapports entre l’expérience religieuse et l’histoire du Québec.

Dissidence, résistance et communion en Église
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 168

Dissidence, résistance et communion en Église

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-29T00:00:00-04:00
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  • Publisher: Novalis

Y a-t-il encore de la place en Église pour une pensée ou une action qui soit en marge avec le discours officiel? Et quel sens donner à ces courants: dissidence, résistance ou acte de communion? Cinq auteurs esquissent une réponse.

Households of Faith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Households of Faith

Annotation An examination of the intersection of religious and familial discourse over the course of two centuries. Households of Faith examines a variety of religious traditions with a particular focus on the way in which religious communities define gender identities. The authors explore the boundaries drawn in religious discourse between the private and public, offering a revisionist perspective on the theoretical framework of separate spheres. By analysing gender relations within the matrix of the family, they explore both the conflicts and interdependency of gender roles.

Revelations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Revelations

In recognition of the year 2000 and its significance for the Christian world, religion provides the common thread that binds together the book’s variety of subject matter, concerns and methodologies. This compilation of eleven papers focuses on politics, museums, religion and war; reports and surveys; as well as research based on the collections.

Wife to Widow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 522

Wife to Widow

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-05-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

This monumental study of two generations of women who married either before or after the Patriote rebellions of 1837-38 explores the meaning of the transition from wife to widowhood in early nineteenth-century Montreal. Bettina Bradbury weaves together the individual biographies of twenty women, against the backdrop of collective genealogies of over 500, to offer new insights into the law, politics, demography, religion, and domestic life of the time. She shows how women from all walks of life interacted with and shaped Montreal's culture, customs, and institutions, even as they laboured under the shifting conditions of patriarchy. Wife to Widow provides a rare window into the significance of marriage and widowhood.

Transatlantic Subjects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 493

Transatlantic Subjects

A reinterpretation of the place of colonial Canada within a reconstructed British Empire that focuses on culture and social relations.

Mapping the Margins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

Mapping the Margins

A re-evaluation of the history and historiography of the Canadian family.

Reading Nelligan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Reading Nelligan

Émile Nelligan (1879–1941) wrote all of his poetry as an adolescent, before spending four decades in a psychiatric asylum. Considering all of Nelligan's work and using a largely textual approach, Émile Talbot points out the Canadian roots of Nelligan's originality. He argues that these are discernable despite Nelligan's use of the discourse of nineteenth-century continental French poetry, particularly that of the Parnassians and the Decadents. Talbot's textual analysis is integrated with a consideration of the social, cultural, artistic, and religious climate of both late nineteenth-century Montreal and the European literary culture to which Nelligan was responding. Talbot considers such pertinent factors as the spirituality of guilt, the role of the mother, and a societal context that rejected both the revelation of the self and the autonomy of art. In doing so he sheds new light on Nelligan's use of European poetic language to fashion a poetry marked by his own culture.

Ruling by Schooling Quebec
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 577

Ruling by Schooling Quebec

Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis’s double-award-winning Politics of Population. Drawing on a mass of archival material, the study shows that although attempts to govern Quebec by educating its population consumed huge amounts of public money, they had little impact on rural ignorance: while near-universal literacy reigned in New England by the 1820s, at best one in three French-speaking peasant men in Quebec could sign his name in the insurrectionary decade of the 1830s. Curtis documents educational conditions on the ground, but also shows how imperial attempts to govern a tumultuous colony propelled the early development of Canadian social science. He provides a revisionist account of the pioneering investigations of Lord Gosford and Lord Durham.