Kategoria BISAC: History >> Canada - Provincial, Territorial & Local - Quebec (QC)

This fourth edition provides an insightful perspective on the history of Quebec, focusing on the social, economic, and political development of the region and its peoples.

Revealing a little-known part of North American history, this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled, mapped, and inhabited a very large part of North America, and embrothered the peoples they met, as Jack Kerouac wrote.Connecting everyday life to the events that emerged as historical turning points in the life of a people, this book sheds new light on Quebec s 450-year historyand on the historical forces that lie behind its two recent efforts to gain...

Grasp the unique history of Quebec? Easy.

Packing in equal parts fun and facts, History of Quebec For Dummies is an engaging and entertaining guide to the history of Canada's second-largest province, covering the conflicts, cultures, ideas, politics, and social changes that have shaped Quebec as we know it today.

-My country isn't a country, it is winter - sings the poet Gilles Vigneault . . . Indeed, Quebec is winter, snow, cold, and freezing winds. It is also the majestic river Saint-Laurent and its numerous confluences across America. It is vast, dense forests,...