The 1840s were a period of rapid growth and social conflict in Montreal. The city's public life was marked by a series of labour conflicts and bloody sectarian riots; at the same time, the ways that elites wielded power and ordinary people engaged in the political process were changing, particularly in public space. In Taking to the Streets Dan Horner examines how the urban environment became a vital and contentious political site during the tumultuous period from the end of the 1837-38 re...

The 1840s were a period of rapid growth and social conflict in Montreal. The city's public life was marked by a series of labour conflicts and bloody sectarian riots; at the same time, the ways that elites wielded power and ordinary people engaged in the political process were changing, particularly in public space. In Taking to the Streets Dan Horner examines how the urban environment became a vital and contentious political site during the tumultuous period from the end of the 1837-38 re...

At the height of the American Revolution in 1779, the Quebec Library was created by Governor Sir Frederick Haldimand. For Haldimand, the library had a well-defined purpose: to educate the public, diffuse useful knowledge, and bring together the French and English peoples of the colony. Over the years, the memory of this institution has faded and the library has tended to be framed as an historical curiosity, seemingly divorced from the era in which it was created. This paper revisits the f...

Cet ouvrage a pour but d’étudier le processus créatif de trois groupes diversifiés d’auteurs à New York et à Paris. Les méthodes de recherche incluent des entretiens avec des auteurs, la construction d’un tableau sociométrique des règles et des normes propres à chaque groupe et une analyse de textes qui mobilise la méthode d’étude structurale.Cette recherche a permis l’identification des niches sociales d’auteurs dans lesquelles des échanges d’informations permettent un apprentissag...