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George-Etienne Cartier: Montreal Bourgeois

By Brian Young

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1981
ISBN
9780773560789
DOI
10.1515/9780773560789
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11416698 bytes)
Pages
196\196
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 18:51:16

Description

George-Etienne Cartier has traditionally been interpreted as primarily a federal politician, as Macdonald's ally in building a united Canada, and as a representative French Canadian. Brian Young downplays ethnic and national political factors and focuses on Cartier's function as spokesman for a specific social group, the Montreal bourgeoisie. The dominant politician in Quebec in the mid-1980s, Cartier directed the transformation of that society's fundamental landholding, legal, business, and educational institutions. Confederation was the political ingredient in the integration of Quebec into Canadian industrial society.

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