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Social Change and Ethnic Nationalism: An Historical Analysis of the Separatist Movement in Quebec

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Rudy Fenwick
Rudy Fenwick
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The University of Akron
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Linguistic conflict between French and English-speaking Canadians has been an enduring feature of Canadian society since the British conquest of New France (Quebec) in 1759. This conflict has taken a variety of forms and revolved around a number of issues in the past two hundred years, ranging from the question of religious and linguistic civil rights to economic inequality and economic dominance. The latest and most significant manifestation of English-French conflict has been the emergence in the mid-1960s of a viable movement for political independence for the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec.

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Ethnic Separatism
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 196 - 216
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1981

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