Quebec

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Preface to the English Edition

Preface to the English Edition

Quebec at the Crossroads: The Roots of the 2012 Students’ Spring

From: In Defiance

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Quebec
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Quebec

From: Canada's Main Street

In this chapter, Baird traces Quebec’s evolving road history, from the province’s early automobiles in the 1890s and 1900s through its steadily expanding highway network by the 1940s. 7 $0.70 Add
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Quebec Closes the Deal
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Quebec Closes the Deal

From: Canada's Main Street

In this chapter, Baird examines the completion of the Trans-Canada Highway through Quebec, spanning 1960 to 1972. 8 $0.80 Add
Quebec in Question

Quebec in Question

This new edition of Marcel Rioux’s bestselling history of Quebec offers an interpretation of the dramatic events of the seventies and the victory of the Parti Quebecois. Written by an … 218 View
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Chapter 11

Chapter 11

Quebec in Transition

From: Quebec in Question

An account of climate of opinion in Quebec in the late 1970s, and changing social and political attitudes as Quebec emerges out of a colonial mentality. 8 $0.80 Add
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Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Quebec or French Canada?

From: Quebec in Question

A brief statement of the case that the only guarantee of the survival of French culture and language in America is an independent Quebec — not a bilingual Canada 11 $1.10 Add
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Revenge of the crucifix (2000–2007)
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Revenge of the crucifix (2000–2007)

From: Dream Interrupted

In this chapter, Pelletier traces Quebec’s political transformation from 2000 to 2007, centred on the reasonable accommodation crisis of 2006. 12 $1.20 Add
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Sephardim, Hasidim, and New Political Realities, 1960–1995
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Sephardim, Hasidim, and New Political Realities, 1960–1995

From: History of the Jews in Quebec

This chapter looks at language and culture and the Jewish population of Montreal; it examines the pushes for the cultural and economic integration of this population during this period. Both the … 57 $5.70 Add
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Soldiers without a Commander?

Soldiers without a Commander?

From: In Defiance

Social networks, the media, and their effects on the spontaneous actions of the strikers. ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Something like a great people (1975–1976)
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Something like a great people (1975–1976)

From: Dream Interrupted

In this chapter, Pelletier traces Quebec’s political and cultural awakening in 1975–76, culminating in the Parti Québécois victory of November 1976. 13 $1.30 Add
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St Albans Raid

St Albans Raid

From: Montreal, City of Secrets

This chapter looks at the St. Albans Raid, which resulted in the most northerly engagement of the Civil War. ; 11 $1.10 Add
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St. Laurent and Diefenbaker, 1948–1963

St. Laurent and Diefenbaker, 1948–1963

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

Discusses the development of federal-provincial relations during the period of Louis St. Laurent and John Diefenbaker including the emergence of shared-cost programs and Quebec’s growing … 25 $2.50 Add
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State of Apprehended Insurrection
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State of Apprehended Insurrection

From: Eyes Have Seen

In this chapter, Anderson examines his experience of Montreal’s October Crisis of 1970, when Prime Minister Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act following FLQ kidnappings, and the … 12 $1.20 Add
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Technical Prowess

Technical Prowess

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s impressive technical systems. It discusses the laboratory in Varennes (part of the campus of the Hydro-Quebec’s research institute – … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Testing the Power System

Testing the Power System

From: Charging Ahead

This chapter explores Hydro-Quebec’s current experimental projects/evolutions in the way that they are producing energy, looking at their experiments with solar, geothermal, and hydrogen … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Textiles Go South

Textiles Go South

SECTION FOUR- Tenacity and modernity

From: A Distinct Alien Race

This chapter explores the decline of the textile industry. By the mid-20th century the textile mills that attracted workers from Québec to the New England, and that once led the … 17 $1.70 Add