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An Independent Quebec. The Past, the Present and the Future.
Jacques Parizeau
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Description for An Independent Quebec. The Past, the Present and the Future.
Paperback. Translator(s): Philpot, Robin. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JPFN; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
Drawing on his rich experience in public service and teaching, Jacques Parizeau, former premier of Quebec, explains in these pages how the idea of an independent Quebec first took root and evolved. This is the first book of Parizeau's political writing to be translated into English, and it provides lively commentary on the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, on the the author's career as finance minister under Premier René Lévesque, and on his own administration in the mid-1990s. Parizeau also examines Quebec’s current economic, political, social and cultural situation and reviews options for future development.
Drawing on his rich experience in public service and teaching, Jacques Parizeau, former premier of Quebec, explains in these pages how the idea of an independent Quebec first took root and evolved. This is the first book of Parizeau's political writing to be translated into English, and it provides lively commentary on the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, on the the author's career as finance minister under Premier René Lévesque, and on his own administration in the mid-1990s. Parizeau also examines Quebec’s current economic, political, social and cultural situation and reviews options for future development.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Baraka Books Canada
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780981240565
SKU
V9780981240565
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99-50
About Jacques Parizeau
Jacques Parizeau was premier of Quebec from 1994 to 1996 and led the YES Committee during the 1995 Quebec referendum. Robin Philpot is the translator and coauthor of A People's History of Quebec. They both live in Montreal.
Reviews for An Independent Quebec. The Past, the Present and the Future.
On all issues, Jacques Parizeau has interesting things to say. . . . There are too many mediocre politicians for us not to welcome the idea that a politician is also a thinker." —La Presse (Montreal) "What Parizeau brilliantly illustrates is that today ‘no country is too small to develop as long as it is part of large trade ... Read more