The Twentieth Century, a sequel to the author's Quebec and Its Historians: 1840 to 1920, is a survey of the main interpretive currents of a period of remarkable transformation in the study of French-Canadian history. Gagnon's principal themes are the emergence of professional or "scientific" history in postwar Quebec and the continuing struggles of nationalist and anti-nationalist scholars. At the same time, the author himself emerges as...
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