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Quebec

A Historical Geography

Serge Courville author Richard Howard translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Published:1st Jan '09

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A meticulously researched and original history of Quebec that celebrates the interaction between its physical landscape and its people.

Tells the geographical history of Quebec, from the appearance of the first human groups onwards. This work covers the major stages of Quebec's collective development, providing a geographical record of the many social relationships that over time created a sense of place.

In this richly documented work, Serge Courville tells the geographical history of Quebec from the appearance of the first humans through to the present day. This detailed and erudite book maps major stages of Quebec’s development, providing a geographical record of the many social relationships that over time created a sense of place. Landscape, Courville shows, is the keeper of memory, the record of successive changes, and a witness to the genesis of the new. Places that were once agricultural, then left to waste and ruin, are today revivified by tourism. Areas that now house office buildings were long ago open playgrounds where children ruled. Drawing on vast research, Courville shows how, in spite of the turbulence Quebec often endures – or perhaps because of it – the land itself may be seen as an important participant in the history of its peoples.

Quebec: A Historical Geography was originally published by Les Presses de l’Université Laval as Le Québec: Genèses et mutations du territoire.

"A monumental survey, by one of Canada's foremost historical geographers, of the changing use of the territory that became Quebec, from teh beginnings of human occupation to the present... Courville paints this large panomarma with great insight and clarity. His book will be a valued text, and of broad interest to scholars and the public. - Cole Harris, author of Making Native Space and The Reluctant Land"

ISBN: 9780774814263

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 540g

376 pages

9th edition