An Illustrated History of Quebec Tradition and Modernity

by Gossage, Peter; Little, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780199009954
• ISBN10: 0199009953
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-10-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Peter Gossage is a professor in the Department of History at Concordia University. He is the author of Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe (McGill-Queen's, 1999) and co-author, with Danielle Gauvreau and Diane Gervais, of La Fecondite des Quebecoises, 1870-1970: D'une exception a l'autre (Boreal, 2007). He is also co-director, with John Lutz and Ruth Sandwell, of the prize-winning educational website Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History (www.canadianmysteries.ca).
Jack Little, FRSC, is a professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. His publications include Loyalties in Conflict: A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion, 1812-1840 (University of Toronto Press, 2008), The Other Quebec: Microhistorical Essays on Nineteenth-Century Religion and Society (University of Toronto Press, 2006), and Borderland Religion: The Emergence of an English-Canadian Identity (University of Toronto Press, 2004).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Tradition and Modernity
1. The Fur Trade Colony
2. The Settlement Colony
3. The Military Colony
4. Political Conflict and Rebellion
5. The Liberal State
6. The Nationalist Reaction
7. An Industrial Revolution
8. Cities and Towns
9. Nationalists and Liberals
10. A Great Darkness?
11. Le Debut d'un Temps Nouveau
12. Sovereignty in Question
13. Contemporary Quebec
Notes
Index