Watching Quebec
Selected Essays
1st Edition
Published on 2. August 2005
256 pages
978-0-7735-7298-0 (ISBN)
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Spanning forty years, this volume focuses on social and cultural change among French-speaking Canadians and its effect on the evolution of nationalism in Quebec. In essays that address both historical and contemporary issues, Ramsay Cook explores topics such as the implications of the Conquest of 1763 and the debate between federalists and separatists.
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Ramsay Cook was awarded the 2005 Canada Council Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the author of Watching Quebec and general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. He is adjunct professorRamsay Cook is professor emeritus of history, York University, and general editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Ramsay Cook was awarded the 2005 Canada Council Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the author of Watching Quebec and general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. He is adjunct professorRamsay Cook is professor emeritus of history, York University, and general editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Canada and the French-Canadian Question
- 2 "Au Diable avec le Goupillon et la Tuque": The Quiet Revolution and the New Nationalism
- 3 Quebec: The Ideology of Survival
- 4 The Paradox of Quebec
- 5 The Evolution of Nationalism in Quebec
- 6 Conquêtisme
- 7 The Historian and Nationalism
- 8 In the Bourassa Tradition: André Laurendeau
- 9 The B and B Commission and Canada's Greatest Crisis
- 10 Bourassa to Bissonette: The Evolution of Castor-Rougeisme
- 11 A Country Doctor and His Bishop: An Incident in the History of Science and Religion in Quebec
- 12 The Meaning of Confederation
- 13 Quebec and Confederation: Past and Present
- 14 The Canadian Dilemma: Locke, Rousseau, or Acton?
- 15 "I never thought I could be as proud ...": The Trudeau-Lévesque Debate
- Index
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