Catholic Origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970

Michael Gauvreau, professor of history at McMaster University, is the author and editor of numerous works, including Mapping the Margins: Families and Social Disciplines in Canada, 1700-1970 and Cultures of Citizenship in Postwar Canada, 1940-1955.

"The usual interpretation of this transformation has attributed it to secular forces that were protesting clerical rigidity as much as political control. Gauvreau instead argues strongly that there was a masculine, muscular Catholicism at work, a desire for change led by practicing Catholics. The case is convincingly made." Choice "This is a work of precision, subtlety, rigor, and complexity." Dominque Marshall, history, Carleton University