Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec – serie
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Grossières indécences
Pratiques et identités homosexuelles à Montréal, 1880-1929
Av Domenic Dagenais, Dominic Dagenais
Häftad, 2020
481 kr
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Après avoir cofondé la première revue homosexuelle canadienne, la poète Elsa Gidlow, 21 ans, décide de quitter Montréal en 1920, déçue par le manque de possibilités amoureuses que lui offre alors la ville. Le réseau d'amis masculins homosexuels qu'elle a intégré au cours des années précédentes ne …
Colonialism's Currency
Money, State, and First Nations in Canada, 1820-1950
Häftad, 2020
496 kr
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Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population. This was especially true in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada, where money - in many forms - provided an effective means of disseminating …
Taking to the Streets
Crowds, Politics, and the Urban Experience in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal
Av Dan Horner
Häftad, 2020
496 kr
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The 1840s were a period of rapid growth and social conflict in Montreal. The city's public life was marked by a series of labour conflicts and bloody sectarian riots; at the same time, the ways that elites wielded power and ordinary people engaged in the political process were changing, …
Deindustrializing Montreal
Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class
Av Steven High
Inbunden, 2022
582 kr
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Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city’s English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal’s Lachine Canal, once an artery around which …
La Guerre D'indépendance Des Canadas
Démocratie, Républicanismes Et Libéralismes En Amérique Du Nord
Häftad, 2022
453 kr
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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 expérience républicaine différente. La révolution a échoué, mais …
Countercurrents
Women's Movements in Postwar Montreal
Av Amanda Ricci
Häftad, 2023
424 kr
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In the decades following the Second World War, women from all walks of life became increasingly frustrated by the world around them. Drawing on long-standing political traditions, these women bound together to revolutionize social norms and contest gender inequality. In Montreal, women activists …
Cette science nécessaire
Dissections humaines et formation médicale au Québec
Inbunden, 2023
1386 kr
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Pourquoi des étudiants en médecine ont-ils enlevé des cadavres dans les lieux de sépulture durant près de six décennies (c. 1820-1883) au Québec ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumière sur une histoire originale et méconnue, en nous plongeant dans l’univers macabre des étudiants en médecine du …
Cette Science Nécessaire
Dissections Humaines Et Formation Médicale Au Québec
Häftad, 2023
510 kr
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Pourquoi des étudiants en médecine ont-ils enlevé des cadavres dans les lieux de sépulture durant près de six décennies (c. 1820-1883) au Québec ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumière sur une histoire originale et méconnue, en nous plongeant dans l'univers macabre des étudiants en médecine du …
Montreal After Dark
Nighttime Regulation and the Pursuit of a Global City
Häftad, 2025
395 kr
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Sex and jazz, liquor and gambling: Montreal in the early twentieth century was a city that offered an exceptional nighttime scene in North America. By mid-century that scene came under scrutiny, and Montreal's influential mayor Jean Drapeau would be elected for the first time on a reformist …
Réinventer Montréal
Ambitions Et Revers De Trois Urbanistes Des Trente Glorieuses
Häftad, 2025
481 kr
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Plusieurs estiment que le développement problématique des villes durant les Trente Glorieuses fut le résultat des idées des urbanistes modernistes. Réinventer Montréal considère qu'il est temps de revoir ce récit historique qui dépeint les urbanistes du passé en vilains technocrates pro-croissance …
Politics of Codification
The Lower Canadian Civil Code of 1866
Av Brian Young
Inbunden, 1994
1444 kr
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Young interprets codification as part of a larger process that included the collapse of the Lower Canadian rebellions, the decline of seigneurialism, expansion of bourgeois democracy in central Canada, professionalization of the bar, and formation of the institutional state. Central to codification …
Arvida Au Saguenay
Naissance D'une Ville Industrielle
Häftad, 1996
542 kr
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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, José Igartua examines what type of people chose to come, who decided to …
State and Society in Transition
The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 1838-1852
Av Little
Häftad, 1997
428 kr
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Using a variety of documentary sources, including hundreds of petitions, letters, and reports to the government, Little traces the complex relationship between community life and government regulation. He reveals that at the same time development of responsible government was leading to …
C'était Du Spectacle!
L'histoire Des Artistes Transsexuelles à Montréal, 1955-1985
Häftad, 2005
558 kr
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Les années soixante et soixante-dix ont été des décennies de changement social au Québec. C'était du spectacle! raconte l'histoire de la première génération de transsexuelles ayant subi une chirurgie d'inversion de sexe. Namaste examine les conditions de travail dans les cabarets, la prostitution, …
Freedom to Smoke
Tobacco Consumption and Identity
Av Jarrett Rudy
Häftad, 2005
424 kr
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In the late Victorian era, smoking was a male habit and tobacco was consumed mostly in pipes and cigars. By the mid-twentieth century, advertising and movies had not only made it acceptable for women to smoke but smoking had become a potent symbol of their emancipation. From mass cigarette …
Done with Slavery
The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760-1840
Av Frank Mackey
Inbunden, 2010
639 kr
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Did slavery exist in Montreal, and if so what did it look like? Frank Mackey grapples with this question in Done with Slavery, a study of black Montrealers in the eighty years between the British Conquest and the union of Lower and Upper Canada.Through close examination of archival and contemporary …
Le Concept De Liberté Au Canada à L'époque Des Révolutions Atlantiques (1776-1838)
Häftad, 2010
500 kr
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An argument for competing ideals of liberty as a motivation for the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada
Quebec Hydropolitics
The Peribonka Concessions of the Second World War
Häftad, 2011
424 kr
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The construction in the 1940s of hydroelectric dams and reservoirs, Lakes Manouan and Passe Dangereuse, were enormous projects that had consequences not only on the environment but also on international affairs. Built by the Aluminium Company of Canada (Rio Tinto Alcan), the project helped meet the …
Des Sociétés Distinctes
Gouverner Les Banlieues Bourgeoises De Montréal, 1880-1939
Häftad, 2015
496 kr
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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" project saw the demerged municipalities as fiscal and linguistic …
Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec
The Taschereaus and McCords
Av Brian Young
Häftad, 2014
453 kr
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History has often ignored the influence in modern Quebec of family dynasties, patriarchy, seigneurial land, and traditional institutions. Following the ascent of four generations from two families through eighteenth-century New France to the onset of the First World War, Patrician Families and the …
Nourrir La Machine Humaine
Nutrition Et Alimentation Au Québec, 1860-1945
Häftad, 2016
496 kr
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Nutrition advice is ubiquitous. So many experts give their opinion on which foods to favour and which to avoid that the question of diet has now become a matter of obsession. While alerting the public to the dangers of obesity, diabetes, and other potential issues that await undisciplined eaters, …
Beyond Brutal Passions
Prostitution in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal
Häftad, 2015
453 kr
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During a time of significant demographic, geographic, and social transition, many women in early nineteenth-century Montreal turned to prostitution and brothel-keeping to feed, clothe, protect, and house themselves and their families. Beyond Brutal Passions is a close study of the women who were …
Techniciens De L'organisation Sociale
La Réorganisation De L'assistance Catholique Privée à Montréal (1930-1974)
Häftad, 2016
496 kr
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Early in the Great Depression, English and French business leaders in Montreal presided over the reorganization and rationalization of Catholic charities in their communities with the blessing, but not the active participation, of the Church. Thus started a decades-long transition from religious …
Place in the Sun
Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec
Av Sean Mills
Häftad, 2016
395 kr
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What is the relationship between migration and politics in Quebec? How did French Canadians' activities in the global south influence future debates about migration and Quebec society? How did migrants, in turn, shape debates about language, class, nationalism and sexuality? A Place in the Sun …
Pauper's Freedom
Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec
Häftad, 2017
496 kr
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, the recognition that individual and collective freedom lay at the foundation of the social order held out the hope for a more or less definitive solution to the problems of poverty and crime. But, in Quebec as elsewhere, the aspirations associated with the …
Au Risque De La Conversion
L'expérience Québécoise De La Mission Au XXe Siècle (1945–1980)
Häftad, 2018
481 kr
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In this ambitious and pioneering work, Catherine Foisy puts the experiences of Quebec missionaries into perspective, describing the ways in which they interweave with the socio-ecclesiastical transformations peculiar to Quebec and with those of Catholicism in mission countries. This tapestry, …
Genre, Patrimoine Et Droit Civil
Les Femmes Mariées De La Bourgeoisie Québécoise En Procès, 1900-1930
Häftad, 2019
496 kr
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Belles résidences, domestiques, voyages… la vie des dames de la bourgeoisie, au début du 20e siècle, n'avait rien à voir avec le quotidien des ménagères de milieu populaire. Ces femmes n'étaient pas totalement à l'abri, néanmoins. Dans Genre, patrimoine et droit civil, Thierry Nootens examine les …
From Old Quebec to La Belle Province
Tourism Promotion, Travel Writing, and National Identities, 1920-1967
Häftad, 2018
453 kr
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Tourism promoters strive to brand their destinations in anticipation of what they think travellers hope to experience. In turn, travel writers react in part to destinations in line with their expectations. While several scholars have documented such patterns elsewhere, these have remained …
L' Église Et La Politique Québécoise, De Taschereau à Duplessis
Häftad, 2019
495 kr
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Si l'on en croit l'historien Denis Vaugeois, les gens inventent des histoires depuis soixante ans à propos du gouvernement de Maurice Duplessis. Dans le domaine de la politique, l'image généralement acceptée du Québec d'avant la Révolution tranquille est celle d'une société écrasée par une Église …
Grossières Indécences
Pratiques Et Identités Homosexuelles à Montréal, 1880-1929
Av Domenic Dagenais, Dominic Dagenais
Inbunden, 2020
1569 kr
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Après avoir cofondé la première revue homosexuelle canadienne, la poète Elsa Gidlow, 21 ans, décide de quitter Montréal en 1920, déçue par le manque de possibilités amoureuses que lui offre alors la ville. Le réseau d'amis masculins homosexuels qu'elle a intégré au cours des années précédentes ne …
