Through robust theoretical and in-depth empirical studies, this book offers the first opportunity to English-language readers to learn about the Québec experience of a social economy system.
Comparing Quebec and Ontario Haddow, Rodney
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Can sub-units within a capitalist democracy, even a relatively decentralized one like Canada, pursue fundamentally different social and economic policies? Is their ability to do so less now than it ...was before the advent of globalization? InComparing Quebec and Ontario, Rodney Haddow brings these questions and the tools of comparative political economy to bear on the growing public policy divide between Ontario and Quebec.
Combining narrative case studies with rigorous quantitative analysis, Haddow analyses how budgeting, economic development, social assistance, and child care policies differ between the two provinces. The cause of the divide, he argues, are underlying differences between their political economic institutions.
An important contribution to ongoing debates about globalization's "golden straightjacket,"Comparing Quebec and Ontariois an essential resource for understanding Canadian political economy.
The graves of Tarim Ho, Engseng; Ho, Engseng
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The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the ...transcultural exchanges—in kinship and writing—that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies are coming together to provide groundbreaking ways of studying religion, diaspora, and empire.
Despite a burgeoning interest in transatlantic and regional studies, the long-standing cultural connections between francophone communities on both sides of the Atlantic have received little critical ...attention. Transatlantic Passages presents essays, interviews, and images that address the often-neglected cultural commerce integral to understanding historical and contemporary identities in Quebec and francophone Europe.
Two of the world's most pressing needs—biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World—are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. ...Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as is widely believed. He uses the lengthy history of small-scale farming by Indians in Peru, including contemporary practices and attitudes, to shed light on prospects for the future. During prolonged fieldwork among Peru's Quechua peasants and villagers in the mountains near Cuzco, Zimmerer found convincing evidence that much of the region's biodiversity is being skillfully conserved on a de facto basis, as has been true during centuries of tumultuous agrarian transitions.
Diversity occurs unevenly, however, because of the inability of poorer Quechua farmers to plant the same variety as their well-off neighbors and because land use pressures differ in different locations. Social, political, and economic upheavals have accentuated the unevenness, and Zimmerer's geographical findings are all the more important as a result. Diversity is indeed at serious risk, but not necessarily for the same reasons that have been cited by others. The originality of this study is in its correlation of ecological conservation, ethnic expression, and economic development.
The personal journals examined in Reading the Diaries of
Henry Trent are not the witty, erudite, and gracefully written
exercises that have drawn the attention of most biographers and
literary ...scholars. Prosaic, ungrammatical, and poorly spelled, the
fifteen surviving volumes of Henry Trent's hitherto unexamined
diaries are nevertheless a treasure for the social and cultural
historian. Henry Trent was born in England in 1826, the son of a
British naval officer. When he was still a boy, his father decided
to begin a new life as a landed gentleman and moved the family to
Lower Canada. At the age of sixteen Trent began writing in a diary,
which he maintained, intermittently, for more than fifty years. As
a lonely youth he narrates days spent hunting and trapping in the
woods owned by his father. On the threshold of manhood and in
search of a vocation, he writes about his experiences in London and
then on Vancouver Island during the gold rush. And finally, as the
father of a large family, he describes the daily struggle to make
ends meet on the farm he inherited in Quebec's lower St Francis
valley. As it follows Trent through the different stages of his
long life, Reading the Diaries of Henry Trent explores the
complexities of class and colonialism, gender roles within the
rural family, and the transition from youth to manhood to old age.
The diaries provide a rare opportunity to read the thoughts and
follow the experiences of a man who, like many Victorian-era
immigrants of the privileged class, struggled to adapt to the
Canadian environment during the rise of the industrial age.
Noted historian Pierre Anctil takes a deep dive into editorials devoted to Jews and Judaism in Quebec's daily Le Devoir in the first half of the twentieth century. Long one of the most discussed ...historiographical issues in Canadian Jewish history, these editorials are of great significance as they are representative of the reaction of the nationalist Francophone elite to the Jewish presence in Montreal, to German Nazi State anti-Semitism and to the Shoah. Pierre Anctil proposes a new reading of the editorials published in the pages of Le Devoir from 1910 to 1947--from the founding of the newspaper by Henri Bourassa until the death of its second director, Georges Pelletier. During that time, some two hundred editorials were devoted to Jews and Judaism, of which Anctil has selected sixty for inclusion in this volume. Although many of the editorials conveyed the clearly anti-Semitic views of Le Devoir's editorialists and of Quebec society at large, a number of the editorials did express positive views of Jewish activities and accomplishments in Quebec society. Readers will find this to be an in-depth analysis and nuanced treatment of an important aspect of Canadian Jewish history.
First published in French in 1981 under the title Le declin du nationalisme au Québec, this classic has received considerable critical acclaim. Graham Fraser of the Montreal Gazette wrote, "a suberb ...book: provocative, ironic, stimulating, and analytical, with a sharp eye for the social meaning of public events. Clift covered Quebec politics as a daily journalist for almost 25 years. He has succeeded in sweeping across events he covered to reduce them to their most substantial conflict." Dominique Clift's perceptive analysis traces two antagonistic trends in recent Quebec history: the growth of nationalism, which reached its high point with the election of René Lévesque in 1967, and the development of individualism at the expense of group solidarity.
Out of the Studio Osborne, John; Smeaton, Peter
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Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the
nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among
them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies
of the ...history of photography: the Smeaton brothers. Out of the
Studio documents the life, oeuvre, and achievement of Charles
Smeaton and his younger brother, John. Launched by the opening of
their "photographic gallery" in 1861, they developed a reputation
in Quebec for images of contemporaneous people, places, and events
taken in challenging outdoor settings. Smeaton pictures of the
aftermath of the Great Fire of Quebec in 1866 helped bring an
understanding of the disaster to an international audience; images
featuring the gold mining industry were displayed at the Exposition
universelle in Paris the following year. When Charles travelled to
Europe in 1866, he accomplished a feat previously thought
impossible, taking the first successful photographs in the Roman
catacombs. John moved to Montreal in 1869, where he worked for
newspapers and developed techniques for the direct transfer of
photographs into print without the necessity of intermediary
engravings. Out of the Studio is the first comprehensive
biographical study detailing the innovation and imagination of the
Smeaton brothers and their legacy of images across two
continents.
Already translated into fifteen languages from the original French, Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty is an essential text on the theory of multinational federalism and the politics of ...minority nations.
