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An Illustrated History of Quebec: Tradition and Modernity (Illustrated History of Canada)
Gossage, Peter; Little, Jack
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Description for An Illustrated History of Quebec: Tradition and Modernity (Illustrated History of Canada)
paperback. Series: Illustrated History of Canada. Num Pages: 392 pages, 112 b/w illustrations; 9 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 482.
Some 7,500 years ago, the continental ice sheet retreated from the landscape we now know as Quebec. This cold, unique, and beautiful land has continued to shift with the movement of peoples and their often troubled interactions. The retreating ice marks the beginning of this fascinating and richly illustrated history. Peter Gossage and Jack Little recount the history of Quebec from the earliest days to the present in concise and elegant prose. By around 1000 BCE the Iroquois of the St. Lawrence Valley were making pottery and cultivating crops, with evidence of trade as far as the Gulf ... Read more
Some 7,500 years ago, the continental ice sheet retreated from the landscape we now know as Quebec. This cold, unique, and beautiful land has continued to shift with the movement of peoples and their often troubled interactions. The retreating ice marks the beginning of this fascinating and richly illustrated history. Peter Gossage and Jack Little recount the history of Quebec from the earliest days to the present in concise and elegant prose. By around 1000 BCE the Iroquois of the St. Lawrence Valley were making pottery and cultivating crops, with evidence of trade as far as the Gulf ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
OUP Canada Canada
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Illustrated History of Canada
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780199009954
SKU
V9780199009954
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About Gossage, Peter; Little, Jack
Peter Gossage is a professor in the Department of History at Concordia University. He is the author of Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe (McGill-Queen's, 1999) and co-author, with Danielle Gauvreau and Diane Gervais, of La Fécondité des Québécoises, 1870-1970: D'une exception à l'autre (Boréal, 2007). He is also co-director, with John Lutz and Ruth Sandwell, of ... Read more
Reviews for An Illustrated History of Quebec: Tradition and Modernity (Illustrated History of Canada)
Featured on CBC Radio's All in a Weekend Well written and handsomely illustrated . . . a valuable addition to the bookshelf."
Montreal Gazette
A well-rounded portrait. . . . This book is reliable and thorough; a handy handbook on the forces of tradition and modernity."
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Montreal Gazette
A well-rounded portrait. . . . This book is reliable and thorough; a handy handbook on the forces of tradition and modernity."
Montreal Review of Books ... Read more