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The Gaullist attack on Canada, 1967-1997 /

"What lay behind Charles de Gaulle's "Vive le Quebec libre!" speech in Montreal on 24 July 1967, Philippe Rossillon's activities in New Brunswick, Belgium, and Africa, and the sinking of Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in 1985? J.F. Bosher argues that the mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bosher, J. F. (John Francis), 1929-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999.
Colección:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one: Gaullist assaults on Canada. Introduction
  • Why Quebec attracted de Gaulle
  • Gaullist aggression before 1967
  • "Vive le Quebec libre!"
  • "Liberating" Acadia
  • The French "Quebec Mafia"
  • Part two: Canada's responses. Marcel Cadieux fights back
  • Prime Ministers versus Presidents
  • Troubled police forces
  • A military response
  • Part three: imperial dreams. Quebec in a world-wide cultural empire
  • The bureaucratic habit
  • The aggressive fifth republic
  • Inventing a useful past
  • Gaullism and the French Imperial Tradition
  • On se souvient.