Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec

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Quebec Hydropolitics

The construction in the 1940s of hydroelectric dams and reservoirs, Lakes Manouan and Passe Dangereuse, were enormous projects that had consequences not only on the environment but also on international ...

The Empire Within

In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around ...

Le Concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques (1776-1838)

Cet ouvrage revisite l'histoire intellectuelle et politique canadienne entre la révolution américaine et les rébellions de 1837-1838 au Haut et au Bas-Canada en la réintégrant dans le cadre des Révolutions ...

The Freedom to Smoke

In the late Victorian era, smoking was a male habit and tobacco was consumed mostly in pipes and cigars. By the mid-twentieth century, advertising and movies had not only made it acceptable for women ...

C'était du spectacle!

Les années soixante et soixante-dix ont été des décennies de changement social au Québec. C'était du spectacle! raconte l'histoire de la première génération de transsexuelles ayant subi une chirurgie ...

A Meeting of the People

In A Meeting of the People Roderick MacLeod and Mary Anne Poutanen look at the Protestant public education system and the communities that established, and were served by, its schools, from the origins ...