Amerikas historia

'Vigorously affirming anarchism's plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration of anticolonial struggle' Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough University As early as the end of the 19th century, anarchists such ...

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Antonio Negri, one of the world's leading scholars on Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing relevance. ...

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One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern Am...

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La Banque de Montreal (BMO), premiere banque du Canada et l'une des plus anciennes d'Amerique du Nord, figure au pantheon des batisseurs de la nation. A qui la fortune sourit retrace deux siecles de cette organisation extraordinaire. L'historien L...

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Longtemps considérée comme une rébellion mineure, la tentative de révolution de 1837 a en réalité secoué l?ensemble de l?Amérique du Nord, menaçant de renvoyer le pouvoir britannique hors du continent, mais également d?inaugurer une expÃ...

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Longtemps considérée comme une rébellion mineure, la tentative de révolution de 1837 a en réalité secoué l?ensemble de l?Amérique du Nord, menaçant de renvoyer le pouvoir britannique hors du continent, mais également d?inaugurer une expÃ...

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Pourquoi des étudiants en médecine ont-ils enlevé des cadavres dans les lieux de sépulture durant präs de six décennies (c. 1820-1883) au Québec ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumiäre sur une histoire originale et méconnue, en nous p...

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Pourquoi des étudiants en médecine ont-ils enlevé des cadavres dans les lieux de sépulture durant präs de six décennies (c. 1820-1883) au Québec ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumiäre sur une histoire originale et méconnue, en nous p...

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Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenment, is essentially secular. Associated with the Founding Fathers and reflected in the Declaration ...

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In March 2003, the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq to put an end to the regime of Saddam Hussein. The war was launched without a United Nations mandate and was based on the erroneous claim that Iraq had retained weapons of mass destru...

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? partir des ann?es 1850, et ? travers des dizaines d?ann?es marqu?es par des guerres et une crise ?conomique mondiale, le manque d?argent et de personnel et la difficult? d?obtenir un toit permanent, le mus?e national du Canada a grandi pour deve...

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Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. The Republican foreign policy operatives of the George W. Bush era seem far removed from the early liberal intellectuals who focused on dom...

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Parish registers, notarial acts, administrative and judicial archives were used extensively to provide a comprehensive view of the formation and evolution of this society in its seigneurial context. In La Prairie en Nouvelle-France the seigneury c...

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Parish registers, notarial acts, administrative and judicial archives were used extensively to provide a comprehensive view of the formation and evolution of this society in its seigneurial context. In La Prairie en Nouvelle-France the seigneury c...

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The town of Arvida provides a field on which we can observe in microcosm the birth of an industrial town and the development of the population's identity as a community. Using a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data, Jose Igartua examines wh...

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The town of Arvida provides a field on which we can observe in microcosm the birth of an industrial town and the development of the population's identity as a community. Using a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data, Jose Igartua examines wh...

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Le Bureau federal de la statistique a balise l'evolution du Canada d'une economie de base a une puissance industrielle adulte, au seuil de l'ere de l'information. Tout au long de cette evolution, la necessite d'obtenir des informations a progresse...

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Focusing on the transition from the production of squared timber to that of milled lumber and, finally, wood pulp, Gaudreau traces the constant depletion of the resource and the companies' resulting, inexorable push westward from Quebec into Ontar...

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Focusing on the transition from the production of squared timber to that of milled lumber and, finally, wood pulp, Gaudreau traces the constant depletion of the resource and the companies' resulting, inexorable push westward from Quebec into Ontar...

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Studies of young activists have tended to focus on the period of the 1960s. Neatby shows us that the youth of the sixties were not the only ones to distinguish themselves by their social activism and idealism - students of the Duplessis era were e...

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Studies of young activists have tended to focus on the period of the 1960s. Neatby shows us that the youth of the sixties were not the only ones to distinguish themselves by their social activism and idealism - students of the Duplessis era were e...

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Basing her work on extensive study of Montreal's city records, Dagenais gives us a view of city government from inside city hall, showing how the city's institutions really functioned. From 1900 to 1950, the municipal administration underwent a de...

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Basing her work on extensive study of Montreal's city records, Dagenais gives us a view of city government from inside city hall, showing how the city's institutions really functioned. From 1900 to 1950, the municipal administration underwent a de...

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Le Canada n'avait pas connu de politicien de la trempe de Stephane Dion depuis Pierre Trudeau. Ses reponses cinglantes aux declarations du Premier ministre Lucien Bouchard sur la separation ont rendu les souverainistes furieux. Et ses discours ont...

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A beautifully illustrated history of culture, religion, and public space.

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How families in nineteenth-century Montreal coped with deviance.

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How families in nineteenth-century Montreal coped with deviance.

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An argument for competing ideals of liberty as a motivation for the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada

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An argument for competing ideals of liberty as a motivation for the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada

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In 2006 fifteen suburban municipalities of Montreal partially regained the autonomy they lost during the 2002 mergers. The fact that most of these were affluent suburbs did not go unnoticed. Supporters of the "one island, one city" proje...

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