Ce mémoire traite de la présence des grands courants idéologiques et des grandes générations historiographiques au sein des programmes et des manuels scolaires d’histoire du Québec de 1967 à 2012. Plus précisément, il interroge les trois principaux programmes d’histoire du Québec, et les manuels qui en découlent, ayant vu le jour depuis la création du ministère de l’Éducation du Québec, soit le programme de 1967, de 1982 et de 2007. Pour ce faire, il joint à certaines méthodes d’évaluation de programmes, à la fois le codage appliqué à l’analyse de discours, la lexicométrie et l’analyse statistique. Par ce processus, il a été possible de relever les continuités et les ruptures des visées des programmes et du discours des manuels. Ainsi, ce mémoire se penche-t-il sur un certain nombre de thématiques et de prémisses mises de l’avant lorsqu’avait lieu la polémique entourant le programme du cours d’Histoire et éducation à la citoyenneté en 2007. Accusé souvent d’utilitariste, d’ultralibéral, de multiculturaliste ou de socioconstructiviste, ce programme est en effet au cœur d’une transformation paradigmatique. Cependant, s’il y a bel et bien un changement idéologique, ce mémoire démontre que ce changement s’est fait en continuité avec les programmes et les manuels précédents. En fait, la seule véritable rupture pouvant faire office d’un changement paradigmatique est en matière d’historiographie : non seulement assistons-nous à la disparition de l’historiographie québécoise au sein de ce programme, mais aussi à sa diminution flagrante dans les manuels. Par le fait même, nous en venons à la conclusion que la polémique entourant le programme de 2007 fut surtout – bien plus que ce que l’on a voulu l’avouer – une confrontation de nature disciplinaire.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Cet article établit l'évolution des récoltes de matière ligneuse sur les terres publiques québécoises entre 1874 et 1905. Au cours de cette période, deux phases ont été identifiées: une phase de consolidation, au cours de laquelle le volume des récoltes plafonne, et une phase de forte croissance, grâce à l'essor rapide du bois à pâte. Nouvelle manne du secteur forestier, cette dernière catégorie de bois relance les activités affectées par une crise dans l'industrie du sciage. Cette crise frappe certaines régions dès les années 1870 et 1880, soit beaucoup plus tÔt qu'on ne l'avait d'abord cru. La variété des performances régionales constitue par ailleurs l'un des thèmes majeurs de cette étude. C'est pourquoi nous en avons cherché les causes. / Cet article s'inspire d'une thése de doctorat soutenue à l'Université du Québec à Montréal en 1986 : L'exploitation des forêts publiques au Québec, 1842-1905: cadre juridique, mode d'appropriation et évolution des récoltes / par Guy Gaudreau

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This interdisciplinary study examines the contribution that a book-review magazine makes to the cultural identity of its readers. It is the result of reflections on the cultural work of Books in Canada , on whether or not this periodical was a cultural worksite and if that is the case how it performed that cultural work. In addition, it interrogates factors that may have contributed to the magazine's demise. The study affirms that Books in Canada, a cultural enterprise from 1971 to 2008, mirrored and helped to shape book and literary culture in Canada through its circulation, through the personalities of its editors, through its front covers and through its reviewers and their reviews. Furthermore, it proposes that the demise of the enterprise was due to a combination of factors. The study begins with an introduction to book reviewing and special-interest magazines. Chapter I examines the interplay between selected visual and textual contents published in Books in Canada in its founding years. These components reflected and helped to fuel the cultural nationalism that was sweeping Canada subsequent to the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal. There were also persistent rumours and comments about the magazine that caused certain"cracks in the foundation" to appear. Chapter II compares the aims and editorial challenges of Val Clery, founder of Books in Canada , with those of Adrien Thério, founder of Lettres québécoises, and of the editors of the magazines' twentieth-anniversary issues, Paul Stuewe in the case of the former and André Vanasse in the case of the latter. Evidence in the content of the magazine, editorial and otherwise, indicated that the"contracts" that the editors made with their readers over the years were similar, to reflect and shape a cultural identity, but the result of their"projects," that is, the nature of those identities, was distinctly different. Evidently then, personal aims, preferences and political leanings of editors can have a major impact on the content of a book-review magazine and thus on the cultural work that it does. Therefore, in Chapter III, I focus on selected contents published during the tenures of two of Books in Canada 's key editors, Paul Stuewe and Olga Stein, in order to understand ways that their choices constituted a form of cultural work. The second part of this chapter moves from an analysis of the cultural work of editors to an examination of the cultural work of reviewers. Here, through a close-reading of a selection of reviews published in Books in Canada, and in other periodicals, I argue that reviewers do cultural work in the way that they negotiate their presence in a review, and in how they signal that presence through lexical choices and through the degree of intellectual interaction that they invite. Intellectual interaction is at the core of Chapter IV.This chapter consists of close readings of some of the"billboards" of the enterprise, that is, the front covers of Books in Canada , in order to show how these important components do cultural work by requiring readers to make an intellectual leap from image to text. Chapter V suggests that book reviews, the company's"bills of goods," do cultural work in much the same way as the paratexts of a book. One of my own reviews is offered as a case-study along with a number of other reviews of how central components of a book-review magazine do cultural work through the illocutionary force of their sentences. The first part of Chapter VI, the final chapter, measures the legacy of the magazine, in particular, the annual Books in Canada First Novel Award. Created in 1976, this prize is awarded to the author of the novel judged by a Books in Canada prize committee to be the best first novel in English of the year. The second part of Chapter VI sheds light on factors that may have contributed to the closure of the enterprise, including the copyright uproar that accompanied the agreement that Adrian Stein, publisher of Books in Canada and Olga Stein's husband, made in 2001 with the online book merchant, Amazon.com. Furthermore, this penultimate section of the study suggests that one of the most important factors in the magazine's demise was the decision by the Steins to exploit their position as owners, publisher, and editor of a book-review periodical, a government-subsidized one at that, to publish their own lengthy pre-trial defense of Conrad Black. The chapter then zooms back from the particular to the general with a broader consideration of the impact of technology and globalization on the book industry and on the ability of Books in Canada to survive in any form, print or digital.

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