https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Lost-World-of-Wood-Runners https://booksandideas.net/The-Lost-World-of-Wood-Runners 2018-12-06T07:00:00Z text/html en Paul Mapp History United States of America Colonialism anthropology West women Quebec history Native American Canada travel Books and ideas originals North America <p>“Wood runners” is the name given to travelling fur traders in the age of pioneers. Focusing on two centuries of their risky adventures and on their relationship with Amerindian populations allows Gilles Havard to write a monumental multicultural history of the early North American West.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Quebec-a-Democracy-in-Crisis https://booksandideas.net/Quebec-a-Democracy-in-Crisis 2012-06-25T03:09:49Z text/html en Florent Guénard Politics social democracy Video Interviews rebellion crisis Quebec Institut français (vidéo) Canada <p>Negotiations between protesters and the governement have failed: the political crisis ignited in Quebec several weeks ago is far from being over. For Professor Christian Nadeau, of Montreal University, much more is at stake here than student tuition fees. As the emergency law passed by Quebec's provincial government shows, the true object of the conflict is social democracy and the society that goes with it.</p>