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Quebec and Its Historians: The Twentieth Century
English, French (translation)
205 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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November 9, 2023
There is another book by the same title that focuses on the twentieth century (Ouellette and others). I read that book first. This is also interesting, especially for the secular historian Garneau. Saw his statue in front of the Parliament. Also, there is a sign of the Garneau bookstore opposite the Anglican Church in Old Quebec close to the 1640 Bistro. By 1950, the ratio of a nun to population was 1 per 111!
Garneau rightly argues, in my opinion, that France could have benefitted by shipping h
Protestants to New France, that way the money and tech secret would have remained with France instead of expelling them.
Abbe Ferland acknowledged aggressive native nationalism as an appropriate response to dispossession, which was very much ahead of his time.
Sulte is very open when he says that the key motive of Cartier, Francis 1 was not the spread of the Gospel but profit!
Overall much of the logic is similar to the structuralist thinking in international development such as the core-periphery model.
Garneau rightly argues, in my opinion, that France could have benefitted by shipping h
Protestants to New France, that way the money and tech secret would have remained with France instead of expelling them.
Abbe Ferland acknowledged aggressive native nationalism as an appropriate response to dispossession, which was very much ahead of his time.
Sulte is very open when he says that the key motive of Cartier, Francis 1 was not the spread of the Gospel but profit!
Overall much of the logic is similar to the structuralist thinking in international development such as the core-periphery model.
November 9, 2023
I got this book from a store in Kingston. The last 50% of the book is pretty much bashing of Ouellet; in some cases, it makes sense from a methodological point of view. Key question: why did Quebec not grow post-1759- where was the business class?
There was the Montreal and Quebec school. Montreal school thought post-conquest Quebec was catastrophic and cut from its mother country, France, and did not get infant industry protection. Trudel and Ouellet argued that Quebec's economy was moribund and weak, and conquest was a mere correlation. I did not know 1837/38; there was a revolt.
Faith was a priority for Champlain, then language. The book discusses the Clerico-conservative concept in which national destiny was based on spiritual integrity and the furtherance of missionary work. That's why the Roman church aligned with the UK after the French Revolution - preferred opposing religious monarchy over republican France. Now I am interested to read Trudel and Ouellet.
There was the Montreal and Quebec school. Montreal school thought post-conquest Quebec was catastrophic and cut from its mother country, France, and did not get infant industry protection. Trudel and Ouellet argued that Quebec's economy was moribund and weak, and conquest was a mere correlation. I did not know 1837/38; there was a revolt.
Faith was a priority for Champlain, then language. The book discusses the Clerico-conservative concept in which national destiny was based on spiritual integrity and the furtherance of missionary work. That's why the Roman church aligned with the UK after the French Revolution - preferred opposing religious monarchy over republican France. Now I am interested to read Trudel and Ouellet.
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