History Post-confederation (1867-)
In the Spirit of ’68
Youth Culture, the New Left, and the Reimagining of Acadia
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press, UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2019
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), Social History, General, Atlantic Provinces (NB, NL, NS, PE)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774862523
- Publish Date
- Nov 2019
- List Price
- $89.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774862554
- Publish Date
- Nov 2019
- List Price
- $32.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774862530
- Publish Date
- Apr 2020
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
The 1960s were a victorious decade for francophones in New Brunswick, who witnessed the election of the first Acadian premier and the opening of a French-language university. But in 1968, students took to the streets of Moncton, demanding further concessions.
What provoked these students to spark a cultural revolution on par with those overtaking English Canada and Quebec? Were they simply heirs to a long line of nationalists seeking more rights for francophones, as older histories suggest, or were they leftists whose demands echoed the ideas of student movements in Quebec, English Canada, the United States, and France?
Belliveau argues that the student movement emerged in the late 1950s as an expression of the province’s changing youth culture but then evolved as students drew inspiration from the ideas of the New Left, shifting allegiance from liberalism to radical communitarianism and ultimately fuelling the fires of a new brand of Acadian nationalism in the 1970s.
About the author
Joel Belliveau est professeur agrégé au Département d’histoire de l’Université Laurentienne (Ontario). Il s’intéresse à la circulation et à la production d’idées au sein des minorités nationales en Amérique du Nord. Il a publié des articles scientifiques portant sur l’Acadie, le Québec, l’Ontario français et la Catalogne, ainsi qu’une monographie intitulée Le «?moment 1968?» et la réinvention de l’Acadie (Ottawa, Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2014).