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Ruling By Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality - A Historical Sociology
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Ruling By Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality - A Historical Sociology
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| Abstract |
The author provides a detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the Quebec French-speaking citizens. He shows that although attempts to govern the province by educating its population consumed huge amounts of public money, it had little impact on rural Illiteracy. While near-universal literacy reigned in English Quebec and neighbouring New England by the 1820s, at best one in three French-speaking peasant men in Quebec could sign his name in the insurrectionary decade of the 1830s. The author also shows how imperial attempts to govern a tumultuous colony propelled the early development of Canadian social science. He argues for a revisionist account of the pioneering investigations of Lord Gosford and Lord Durham.
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Toronto, ON
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University of Toronto Press
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2012
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x-563p.
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en
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978-1-4426-1049-1
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| Citation |
Curtis, Bruce. Ruling By Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality - A Historical Sociology. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
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