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Ruling by Schooling Quebec
Bruce Curtis
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Description for Ruling by Schooling Quebec
Paperback. Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; HBJK; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760.
Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the people. This first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history extends the sophisticated method used in author Bruce Curtis’s double-award-winning Politics of Population.
Drawing on a mass of archival material, the study shows that although attempts to govern Quebec by educating its population consumed huge amounts of public money, they had little impact on rural ignorance: while near-universal literacy reigned in New England by the 1820s, at best one ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442610491
SKU
V9781442610491
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About Bruce Curtis
Bruce Curtis is a professor of Sociology and of History at Carleton University.
Reviews for Ruling by Schooling Quebec
‘This deep analysis of early nineteenth-century Quebec will fuel debate about the complex origins of public schooling not only in the St. Lawrence Valley but elsewhere in North America as well.’
Chad Gaffield
American Historical Review vol 119:01:2014
Chad Gaffield
American Historical Review vol 119:01:2014