Watching Quebec: Selected Essays

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2005 - History - 225 pages
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.
 

Contents

Canada and the FrenchCanadian Question
3
The Ideology of Survival
36
The Paradox of Quebec
56
The Evolution of Nationalism in Quebec
68
Conquêtisme
82
The Historian and Nationalism
98
Rougeisme
133
of Science and Religion in Quebec
142
Past and Present
173
Locke Rousseau or Acton?
188
Debate
206
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Ramsay Cook was awarded the 2005 Canada Council Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the author of Watching Quebec and general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada. He is adjunct professor