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Article: The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970.(Book review)
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- Historical Studies
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- January 1, 2007
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The Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970. By Michael Gauvreau. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xiv, 506 pp. $85.00
Recently awarded the Canadian Historical Association's Sir John A. Macdonald prize for the best book in Canadian history published in 2005, McMaster University historian Michael Gauvreau's most recent work tackles what has become mythologized as the defining period for modern Quebec--the Quiet Revolution. Usually described as a period of rapid bureaucratic, political and economic transformations which transformed Quebec society in the 1960s, Gauvreau takes issue with what he views as the tendency of ...