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Book Synopsis The Question of Separatism by : Jane Jacobs
Download or read book The Question of Separatism written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Jacobs, writing from her adoptive country, uses the problems facing an independence-seeking Quebec and Canada as a whole to examine the universal problem of sovereignty and autonomy that nations great and small have struggled with throughout history. Using Norway’s relatively peaceful divorce from Sweden as an example, Jacobs contends that Canada and Canadians—Quebecois and Anglophones alike—can learn important lessons from similar sovereignty questions of the past.
Book Synopsis Struggle for Quebec by : Robert Young
Download or read book Struggle for Quebec written by Robert Young and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Struggle for Quebec Young updates this work, treating new developments and making his analysis accessible to a wider audience. He describes the prelude to the 1995 referendum campaign, as well as the history of the campaign itself, analysing the arguments deployed by federalists and sovereigntists and seeking to explain why the Yes forces gained ground in 1995 and almost won. He also suggests what would have happened if the Yes side had actually won the 1995 referendum. Young then assesses the fallout of the referendum - its impact on the attitudes and behaviour of the public, elites, and foreign governments - and describes how the sovereigntists and federalists are manoeuvring around the prospect of another referendum. He considers Lucien Bouchard's policies as well as Ottawa's attempts both to accommodate Quebecers' desires for change - Plan A - and to demonstrate how difficult secession would be - Plan B - and analyses the 1997 federal election and the Calgary accord. All of this lays the groundwork for prediction and Young provides a set of scenarios about what would happen after a Yes vote in a future referendum on sovereignty. The Struggle for Quebec is a current, thorough, and lively book which is indispensable reading for all Canadians concerned with their future.
Book Synopsis The Struggle for Quebec by : Robert Andrew Young
Download or read book The Struggle for Quebec written by Robert Andrew Young and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prospect of Quebec secession remains a threat to the integrity of the Canadian state and the well-being of Canadians. This was demonstrated by the defeat of the sovereignist force in the Quebec referendum of 1995. This book looks at the questions and circumstances surrounding this province.
Book Synopsis Misconceiving Canada by : Kenneth McRoberts
Download or read book Misconceiving Canada written by Kenneth McRoberts and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now in its second edition, Misconceiving Canada: The Struggle for National Unity continues to offer an insightful analysis of the topics and events that have dominated French and English relations in Canada. Twenty years after the publication of the first edition, distinguished Canadian author Kenneth McRoberts renews his compelling argument that Canada has survived not because of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's national unity strategy, but despite it. Fully revised, Misconceiving Canada explores the relationship between Quebec and the rest of Canada, starting with its historical roots--including the role of the Trudeau government, official bilingualism, multiculturalism, and the 1995 Quebec referendum--and ending with an investigation into the roles of more recent governments, the identity of present-day Quebec, constitutional failures and remedies, and multinational federation. A critical yet accessible monograph, Misconceiving Canada is essential reading not only for students of Canadian politics and history, but for anyone interested in learning more about one of Canada's most enduring challenges."--
Book Synopsis The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony by : Mark R. Anderson
Download or read book The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony written by Mark R. Anderson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada
Download or read book Death Or Victory written by Dan Snow and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of General James Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain's empire in North America. Military history at its best.
Book Synopsis Decentralization and Intrastate Struggles by : Kristin M. Bakke
Download or read book Decentralization and Intrastate Struggles written by Kristin M. Bakke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no one-size-fits-all decentralized fix to deeply divided and conflict-ridden states. One of the hotly debated policy prescriptions for states facing self-determination demands is some form of decentralized governance - including regional autonomy arrangements and federalism - which grants minority groups a degree of self-rule. Yet the track record of existing decentralized states suggests that these have widely divergent capacity to contain conflicts within their borders. Through in-depth case studies of Chechnya, Punjab and Québec, as well as a statistical cross-country analysis, this book argues that while policy, fiscal approach, and political decentralization can, indeed, be peace-preserving at times, the effects of these institutions are conditioned by traits of the societies they (are meant to) govern. Decentralization may help preserve peace in one country or in one region, but it may have just the opposite effect in a country or region with different ethnic and economic characteristics.
Book Synopsis Power Struggles by : Thibault Martin
Download or read book Power Struggles written by Thibault Martin and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Struggles: Hydro Development and First Nations in Manitoba and Quebec examines the evolution of new agreements between First Nations and Inuit and the hydro corporations in Quebec and Manitoba, including the Wuskwatim Dam Project, Paix des Braves, and the Great Whale Project. In the 1970s, both provinces signed so-called “modern treaties” with First Nations for the development of large hydro projects in Aboriginal territories. In recent times, however, the two provinces have diverged in their implementation, and public opinion of these agreements has ranged from celebratory to outrage.Power Struggles brings together perspectives on these issues from both scholars and activists. In debating the relative merits and limits of these agreements, they raise a crucial question: Is Canada on the eve of a new relationship with First Nations, or do the same colonial attitudes that have long characterized Canadian-Aboriginal relations still prevail?
Book Synopsis Being Chinese in Canada by : William Ging Wee Dere
Download or read book Being Chinese in Canada written by William Ging Wee Dere and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part history, Being Chinese in Canada explores systemic discrimination against the Chinese Canadian community and the effects of the redress movement.
Book Synopsis Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec by : Richard Handler
Download or read book Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec written by Richard Handler and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Handler's pathbreaking study of nationalistic politics in Quebec is a striking and successful example of the new experimental type of ethnography, interdisciplinary in nature and intensively concerned with rhetoric and not only of anthropologists but also of scholars in a wide range of fields, and it is likely to stir sharp controversy. Bringing together methodologies of history, sociology, political science, and philosophy, as well as anthropology, Handler centers on the period 1976-1984, during which the independantiste Parti Québéois was in control of the provincial government and nationalistic sentiment was especially strong. Handler draws on historical and archival research, and on interviews with Quebec and Canadian government officials, as he addresses the central question: Given the similarities between the epistemologies of both anthropology and nationalist ideology, how can one write an ethnography of nationalism that does not simply reproduce--and thereby endorse--nationalistic beliefs? Handler analyzes various responses to the nationalist vision of a threatened existence. He examines cultural tourism, ideology of the Quebec government, legislations concerning historical preservation, language legislation and policies towards immigrants and "cultural minorities." He concludes with a thoughtful meditation on the futility of nationalisms.
Author :John Fekete Publisher :Nottingham : Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation for the Spokesman ISBN 13 :9780950030098 Total Pages :61 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (3 download)
Book Synopsis The Struggle for Quebec by : John Fekete
Download or read book The Struggle for Quebec written by John Fekete and published by Nottingham : Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation for the Spokesman. This book was released on 1970 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle for Quebec 1759 by : Matthew C Ward
Download or read book The Battle for Quebec 1759 written by Matthew C Ward and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and readable history of the British war against the French for control of Canada.
Book Synopsis Essays on Quebec Cinema by : Joseph I. Donohoe
Download or read book Essays on Quebec Cinema written by Joseph I. Donohoe and published by MSU Press Canadian. This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Quebec Cinema weaves together the reflections of filmmakers and scholars from Canada, the United States, and Great Britain as they move to a fresh assessment of one of the most dynamic film industries in the Western Hemisphere.
Book Synopsis The Struggle for Canadian Sport by : Bruce Kidd
Download or read book The Struggle for Canadian Sport written by Bruce Kidd and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men's organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century steadily lost ground, swamped by the rise of consumer culture and badly battered and split by the depression. In The Struggle for Canadian Sport Bruce Kidd illuminates the complex and fractious process that produced the familiar contours of Canadian sport today -- the hegemony of continental cartels like the NHL, the enormous ideological power of the media, the shadowed participation of women in sports, and the strong nationalism of the amateur Olympic sports bodies. Kidd focuses on four major Canadian organizations of the interwar period: the Amateur Athletic Union, the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation, the Workers' Sport Association, and the National Hockey League. Each of these organizations became focal points of debate and political activity, and they often struggled with each other - each had a radically different agenda: The AAU sought `the making of men' and the strengthening of English-Canadian nationalism; the WAAF promoted the health and well-being of sportswomen; the WSA was a vehicle for socialism; and the NHL was concerned with lucrative spectacles. These national organizations stimulated and steered many of the resources available for sport and contributed significantly to the expansion of opportunities. They enjoyed far more power than other Canadian cultural organizations of the period, and they attempted to manipulate both the direction and philosophy of Canadian athletics. Through their control of the rules and prestigious events and their countless interventions in the mass media, they shaped the dominant practices and coined the very language with which Canadians discussed what sports should mean. The success and outcome of each group, as well as their confrontations with one another were crucial in shaping modern Canadian sports. The Struggle for Canadian Sport adds to our understanding of the material and social conditions under which people created and elaborated sports and the contested ideological terrain on which sports were played and interpreted. Winner of the North American Society for Sports History (NASSH) 1997 book award
Book Synopsis Misconceiving Canada by : Kenneth McRoberts
Download or read book Misconceiving Canada written by Kenneth McRoberts and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For close to forty years Canadian politics has been dominated by the struggle for 'national unity'. And yet today Canada is more deeply divided than ever. Even after the shock of the 1995 referendum, in which Quebec almost voted for sovereignty, our political leaders are unable to bring the country together. How could things have gone so wrong? Misconceiving Canada argues that in fact the national unity strategy itself is the cause of the present impasse. Whereas in the 1960s the rise of Quebec nationalism prompted all three federal parties to look for ways to accommodate Quebec's aspirations, by the end of the decade a new strategy had taken hold, under the leadership of Pierre Trudeau. Quebeckers were to be integrated with the rest of Canada through a new conception of the country based on official bilingualism, a charter of rights, multiculturalism, and the equality of the provinces. Ottawa would become a truly 'national' government. In the end, as this book shows, the Trudeau strategy failed to change Quebeckers' perception of themselves as a distinct collectivity within Canada. But, ironically, it has changed the way that Canadians outside Quebec see their country. Many of them are now committed to a vision of Canada which applies the principle of equality in ways that make impossible even the slightest accommodation of Quebec's aspirations. The author concludes that only by abandoning the Trudeau vision and recapturing the spirit of the 1960s can Canadians hope to unite their country." --
Book Synopsis Writing Herself into Being by : Patricia Smart
Download or read book Writing Herself into Being written by Patricia Smart and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women’s struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical fiction, as well as the annals of religious communities, letters, and a number of published and unpublished diaries by girls and women, to reveal a greater range of women’s experiences than proscribed, generalized roles. Through close readings of these texts Smart uncovers the authors’ perspectives on events such as the 1837 Rebellion, the Montreal cholera epidemic of 1848, convent school education, the struggle for women’s rights in the early twentieth century, and the Quiet Revolution. Drawing attention to the individuality of each writer while situating her within the social and ideological context of her era, this book further explores the ways women and girls reacted to, and often rebelled against, the constraints imposed on them by both Church and state. Written in a clear and compelling narrative style that brings women’s voices to life, Writing Herself into Being – the author’s own translation of her award-winning French-language book De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime (Boréal, 2014) – offers a new and gendered view of various periods in Quebec history.
Book Synopsis Quebec in a Global Light by : Robert Calderisi
Download or read book Quebec in a Global Light written by Robert Calderisi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the outside world, Quebec is Canada’s most distinctive province. To many Canadians, it has sometimes seemed the most troublesome. But, over the last quarter century, quietly but steadily, it has wrestled successfully with two of the West’s most daunting challenges: protecting national values in the face of mass immigration and striking a proper balance between economic efficiency and a sound social safety net. Quebec has also taken a lead in fighting climate change. Yet, many people – including many Quebeckers – are unaware of this progress and much remains to be done. These achievements, and the tenacity that made them possible, are rooted in centuries of adversity and struggle. In this masterful survey of the major social and economic issues facing Quebec, Robert Calderisi offers an intimate look into the sensitivities and strengths of a society that has grown accustomed to being misunderstood. In doing so, he argues that the values uniting Quebeckers – their common sense, courtesy, concern for the downtrodden, aversion to conflict, and mild form of nationalism, linked to a firm refusal to be homogenized by globalization – make them the most "Canadian" of all Canadians.
