Watching Quebec: Selected Essays

· Carleton Library Series Book 201 · McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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Evolving from a passionate desire to simply survive as a distinctive culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century to a more confident and expansive ideology since the Second World War, nationalism in Quebec has provoked intense debates within the province and in the rest of Canada over language, provincial powers, and the very meaning of the term nation in the contemporary world. Watching Quebec examines the ideas of francophone individuals and groups, looks at their institutions and movements, and clarifies the complex relationship between French- and English-speaking Canadians.
Evolving from a passionate desire to simply survive as a distinctive culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century to a more confident and expansive ideology since the Second World War, nationalism in Quebec has provoked intense debates within the province and in the rest of Canada over l...

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Ramsay Cook is professor emeritus of history, York University, and general editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Ramsay Cook is professor emeritus of history, York University, and general editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

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