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  • Taking to the Streets

    Crowds Politics and the Urban Experience in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

    by Dan Horner ...
    Series Book 38 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    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, particularly in public space. In Taking to the Streets Dan Horner examines how the urban environment became a ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Taking to the Streets

    Crowds Politics and the Urban Experience in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal

    by Dan Horner ...
    Series Book 38 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
    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, particularly in public space. In Taking to the Streets Dan Horner examines how the urban environment became a ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 23 No. 1, 2012

    by Beth A. Robertson, Michael Eamon, Robin Jarvis Brownlie, Dan Horner, Colin Grittner, Joanna L. Pearce, Dominique Marquis, Benjamin Bryce, Rebecca Beausaert, Janice Cavell, Joan Sangster, Allan Downey ...
    Series Book 23 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    At the height of the American Revolution in 1779, the Quebec Library was created by Governor Sir Frederick Haldimand. For Haldimand, the library had a well-defined purpose: to educate the public, diffuse useful knowledge, and bring together the French and English peoples of the colony. Over the years, the memory of this institution has faded and the library has tended to be framed as an historical ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • A Short History of Quebec

    by John A. Dickinson, Brian Young ...
    John A. Dickinson and Brian Young bring a refreshing perspective to the history of Quebec, focusing on the social and economic development of the region as well as the identity issues of its diverse peoples. This revised fourth edition covers Quebec's recent political history and includes an updated bibliography and chronology and new illustrations. A Canadian classic, A Short History of Quebec ... Read more

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  • Living the Enlightenment

    Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    by Margaret C. Jacob ...
    Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was constitutionally constructed and logically egalitarian. Originating in the Middle Ages, when stone ... Read more

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  • The Empire Within

    Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

    by Sean Mills ...
    Series Book 23 - Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec
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  • The Union of the Canadas 1841-1857

    The Growth of Canadian Institutions

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    Series Book 10 - The Canadian Centenary Series
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    $11.99 CAD

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    Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today

    by Donald B. Smith ...
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  • Revisiting 1759

    The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective

    by Phillip Buckner, John G. Reid ...
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  • Songs Upon the Rivers

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