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Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
L'analyse de systèmes
Pour comprendre ce que sont aussi bien un cristal qu'un être humain, la science traditionnelle les réduit en éléments simples et les considère comme des sommes d'atomes ou de cellules. Au contraire, l'analyse de systèmes présuppose qu'il faut se les représenter d'abord comme des systèmes autonomes, organisés, complexes et en interaction avec un milieu, ce que ne peut permettre le réductionnisme de la science cartésienne. Plus donc qu'une véritable théorie, il s'agit d'une nouvelle approche de la réalité qui, si elle trouve ses racines chez nombre de philosophes et de savants précédant le XXe siècle, n'a connu un véritable essor qu'avec la cybernétique, la biologie et certaines branches des mathématiques. Ce type d'analyse s'applique particulièrement aux phénomènes sociaux qui sont les plus complexes des systèmes: la famille, la politique, le chômage... Les recherches et les perspectives les plus récentes montrent l'étendue des découvertes que permet cette démarche.
Empires of Vice
A Shared Turn : Opium and the Rise of Prohibition -- The Different Lives of Southeast Asia's Opium Monopolies -- "Morally Wrecked" in British Burma, 1870s-1890s -- Fiscal Dependency in British Malaya, 1890s-1920s -- Disastrous Abundance in French Indochina, 1920s-1940s -- Colonial Legacies.
Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution
In this study of the intellectual origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, Michael Behiels has provided the most comprehensive account to date of the two competing ideological movements which emerged after World War II to challenge the tenets of traditional French-Canadian nationalism. The neo-nationalists were a group of young intellectuals and journalists, centered upon Le Devoir and L'Action nationale in Montreal, who set out to reformulate Quebec nationalism in terms of a modern, secular, urban-industrial society which would be fully "master in its own house." An equally dedicated group of French Canadians of liberal or social democratic persuasion was based upon the periodical...
A Short History of Quebec
Written by two of Quebec's most respected historians, A Short History of Quebec offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the province from the pre-contact native period to the present-day. John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec now takes into account such issues as the 1995 referendum, recent ideological shifts and societal changes, considers Quebec's place in North America in the light of NAFTA, and offers reflections on the Grard Bouchard-Charles Taylor Commission on Accommodation and Cultural Differences in 2008. Engagingly written, this expanded and updated fourth edition is an ideal place to learn about the dynamic history of Quebec.
Gendered Passages
Gendered Passages is the first full-length book devoted to the gendered analysis of the lives of French-Canadian migrants in early-twentieth-century Lowell, Massachusetts. It explores the ingenious and, at times, painful ways in which French-Canadian women, men, and children adjusted to the challenges of moving to, and settling in, that industrial city. Yukari Takai uncovers the multitude of cross-border journeys of Lowell-bound French Canadians, the centrality of their family networks, and the ways in which the ideology of the family wage and the socioeconomic realities in Québec and New England shaped migrants' lives on both sides of the border. Takai argues that French-Canadian husbands ...
Recent Social Trends in Quebec, 1960-1990
Readers will follow an intense period of social change in Quebec, during which there was a remarkable increase in the level of modernization. They will note a massive entry of women into the labour force and a growing service sector that now constitutes seventy percent of all economic activity. They will observe also that the Québécois have dramatically increased their television viewing and that, while they express a generally high level of satisfaction with life, the Québécois must contend with escalating crime and suicide rates.
