The Dream of Nation: Second Edition / Edition 2

by Susan Mann

Overview

Essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Quebec, The Dream of Nation traces the changing nature of various "dreams of nation," from the imperial dream of New France to the separatist dream of the 1980 referendum. Susan Mann demonstrates that these dreams, fashioned by elites in response to the recurring question of how to be French in North America, proposed an ever-elusive unanimity. She discusses how social, economic, and political pressures, as well as changing populations, invariably thwarted one dream and provided the makings of another. A work of pioneering scholarship and remarkable synthesis, The Dream of Nation weaves together two of the dominant ideologies of the twentieth century: nationalism and feminism. A new preface contextualizes the 1982 edition and outlines the different contours of Quebec's latest thoughts on sovereignty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773524101
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	07/25/2002
Series:	Carleton Library Series , #198
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Susan Mann is a historian, member of the Order of Canada, president emeritus of York University, author of A Dream of Nation: A Social and Intellectual History of Quebec, and editor of The War Diary of Clare Gass, 1915-1918.

Table of Contents

	Preface to the Carleton Library Series Edition	ix
	Preface to the First Edition	xv
1	The Dream of Empire	1
2	Conquest	16
3	An Other's Empire	33
4	The Birth of Nationalism	48
5	For Whom the Bell Tolls	67
6	Alliance for Survival	81
7	The Confederation Risk	100
8	The Clerical Offensive	115
9	Nobody Meant to Stay	132
10	The End of Empire	150
11	The Twentieth Century Belongs to Quebec	167
12	Feminism, Nationalism, and the Clerical Defensive	184
13	The Prussians Are Next Door	201
14	Abbe Groulx Sounds the Alarm	218
15	The Search for Equilibrium	233
16	Ottawa's War	249
17	Rally Round the Flag	266
18	Ici Radio-Canada	282
19	Noisy Evolution	298
20	Feminism, Federalism, and the Independence of Quebec	317
	General Bibliography	333
	Index	334