History of Quebec

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Quebec's political struggle for autonomy independence and the protection of its language culture and heritage is shrouded in ambiguity.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Let us shed some light on the subject for you.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Why have the province's linguistic and cultural tensions dragged on for nearly four hundred years? In what ways does it differ from the rest of Canada? Did indigenous peoples play a key role in shaping the province's identity and culture? For what reasons did Quebec's two sovereigntist referendums fail? And what was the Quiet Revolution?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The historic rivalry between Britain and France was an intense long-standing geopolitical struggle. Relations between the empires cooled at the dawn of the modern age. Today the nations are close allies but the embers of Franco-Anglo strife still burn at the core of Quebec society. While Francophone nationalists stress the importance of enacting linguistic and cultural protection laws Quebecois Anglophones and other non-Francophones claim to be increasingly marginalized by the laws and ideologies of a society ravaged by mass cultural anxiety.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So what is the truth? This book seeks to untangle the storied history and complexities of Canada's rebel province. It attempts to make sense of how a province of one of the world's most progressive countries continues to ignite conflict between its French- and English-speaking communities.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Some of what this book examines includes the following:</span></p><p><br></p><ul><li>The early indigenous civilizations and their rapid transformations after establishing European contact;</li><li>The rise of the cod and fur trade and the eventual integration of the Americas into European trade networks;</li><li>Early French settlements and what roles the church played in education health care territorial expansion and trade with European markets;</li><li>The British conquest of New France and how it impacted the lives of the French-speaking habitants;</li><li>Shifts in Quebecois society as the Industrial Revolution crept through North America;</li><li>The rapid expansion of capitalist industrial society in Quebec and the distinctive features that separated Anglophone society from Francophone society;</li><li>The elements that contributed to the Grande Noirceur and the consequential Quiet Revolution;</li><li>And much more!</li></ul>