Table of Contents:
  • 1. Analyzing change
  • 2. Historical foundations: "La Survivance"
  • 3. Quebec's economic development: its scope and weaklnesses
  • 4. The social transformation of French Quebec
  • 5. The Duplessis regime: resistance to state-building
  • 6. The "Quiet Revolution": the new ideology of the Quebec state
  • 7. Quebec in the wake of the "Quiet Revolution": politicization of language and class
  • 8. The politics of discontent: government policies and the rise of the Parti Quebecois
  • 9. The Parti Quebecois in power: policies and strategies
  • 10. Sovereignty -association: its meaning and its prospects
  • Conclusions.