Quebec and its historians : the twentieth century / Serge Gagnon ; translated by Jane Brierley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gagnon, Serge, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians--Quebec (Province).

Historians.

Québec (Province)--Historiography.

Québec (Province).

Québec (Province)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st Harvest House ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Harvest House, 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Priest-ridden and church dominated - that is what most Canadians thought about Quebec social and intellectual life until recently. For a century, historical scholarship did not escape clerical influence, nor that nationalism which emanated from a people conscious that their nation had been defeated and colonized by the British. Bring on the Jesuits and their devotion to the Church, French civilization, and the conversion of the Amerindians! That era has now passed, as Université du Québec historian Serge Gagnon reveals in this searching study of Quebec historiography during the past quarter ce

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I: Historians and the Quiet Revolution: a Look at the Debates of the Mid-Sixties.; II: Changing Views of the Canadian Sixteenth Century: from Narcisse-Eutrope Dionne (1891) to Marcel Trudel (1963).; III: The Historiography of New France, 1960-1974: Jean Hamelin to Louise Dechêne.; IV: The Relationship Between Ideology and Method: Fernand Ouellet in Economic and Social History of Quebec (1966) and Lower Canada (1976).; V: Ideology and Quantitative Method: the Rural World of Fernand Ouellet.; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Sequel to author's Quebec and its historians : 1840 to 1920.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780776616803

0776616803

OCLC:

777374697