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This article examines the themes of Quebec's specificity prior to the Quiet Revolution and its «normality» since the 1960's. More precisely, the authors aim to analyse the phenomenon of the Quiet Revolution, which has always been defined, in their opinion, as a period of rupture from a traditional society to a modern society. Three main problematics are applied, each concerning three different disciplinary trends: First of all, history and criticism as considered by Ronald Rudin, promoter of the «new historiography»; secondly, political philosophy and the importance of liberal and communitarian trends in Canada; and finally, the problematics of post-colonialism, which has been developed extensively throughout the Anglo-American world, particularly in the areas of literary theory and sociology, mainly since the 1978 publication of the book Orientalism by Edward Said. It is through articulating these three problematics, which are absent from the existing literature, that the authors define the originality of their process. More precisely, the authors believe the artificial dichotomy separating traditional» and «modern», a dichotomy to which Ronald Rudin incidentally returns in his analysis of so-called revisionist literature, to constitute a political problem tinged with the mark of colonialism.
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AbstractThis article's main objective is to describe the main characteristics of the present interest for global history and the reasons of the new prevalence of this term. First, we will briefly outline earlier accounts in world history and in international history. Then, we will examine certain difficulties and constraints proper to the work of historians, problems that doubtlessly render their task of doing research on a global level more difficult than it is for researchers in numerous other academic disciplines. These considerations result in a sketch of a certain number of regional differences which influence the debates on global history, by basing itself mainly on the example of Germany, the United States and greater China, which includes the Popular Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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The author of this article outlines a new way of dividing up film history, one that pays more attention to the context in which the various historical discourses discussed emerged and to the boundaries of the context in question. This dividing up is not based on the concept “generation” (traditional history vs. new history), which tends to yoke the scholar to a teleological approach, but rather on the concept “paradigm,” which makes it possible to free oneself from the imperatives of periodization and from certain temporal constraints. The author's hypothesis is that “amateur film history,” whose historical discourses are intended in large part for the general public, was the dominant paradigm during the period from the early 1900s to the 1970s, while “scholarly film history,” whose historical discourses are almost always intended for scholarly film historians, has been the dominant paradigm in film historiography for the past thirty years.
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AbstractIn this article, I would like to reflect on some of the circumstances surrounding the “crisis” of Quebec social history and on the emergence of a new history of ideas that presents itself as creating a new relationship with the past. After a period during which social history ruled practically without competition, signs of a certain fatigue, even of crisis, became increasingly clear in the 1990s. After 2000, these signs progressively gave way to a more radical critique that rejected social history as a whole, accusing it of having constructed a modernist account that held tradition in contempt. This critique argued that a new history of ideas, more respectful of tradition, would be better able to explain the ongoing crisis of a Quebec society that was losing its social and political bearings, as well as its identity. This article therefore aims to explore this historiographical conjuncture, inseparable from a larger intellectual and political context, that puts into question the very pertinence of understanding Quebec's past on the basis of the central themes of social history, especially that of social inequality. Finally, I call on present-day social historians to rebuild a critical historiographical project centered on the problem of social change.