A People's History of Quebec by Jacques Lacoursière and Robin Philpot offers a readable account of the history of French-speaking Canada. Americans tend to think of Canada as a harmonious and polite county, not rent apart by painful and deep divisions like the United States. But that is only our liberal fantasy about Canada. There have always been fault lines in Canada: ethnic, political, social, regional, and economic – and this book explores and explains one of Canada’s most consequential, the friction between English and French-speaking Canada.
The authors provide a brisk and informative overview of one of Canada’s thorniest existential issues.
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