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JUST RELEASED THIS MORNING!
 
THE historical atlas for Quebec, in the making!
 
Courville, Serge
Robert, Jean-Claude
Seguin, Normand
 
ATLAS HISTORIQUE DU QUEBEC:
le pays laurentien au XIXe siecle:les morphologies de base
 
Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l'Universite Laval, 1995. 184 p.
ISBN 2-7637-7376-1    59C$
 
Distribution:
 
Distribution de livres UNIVERS
845, rue Marie-Victorin
Saint-Nicolas (Quebec)
G0S 3L0
 
Fax 418.831.4021 (Visa and Mastercard only)
Phone 1.800.859.7474 (Canada only)
 
This is the first volume of and open-ended unnumbered series of
cartographic studies to assemble a multi-volume historical atlas for
Quebec, from the beginning to present time. The contents for the whole is
not necessarily designed along chronological periods but rather thematic
approaches.
 
They say:" L'Atlas historique du Quebec est une collection d'ouvrages
thematiques consacres a l'experience historique de la societe quebecoise.
Elle regroupe des equipes de chercheurs reconnus, preoccupes de donner une
dimension spatiale a leurs analyses historiques".
 
This volume is produced under the intellectual leadership of a
multidisciplinary research group within an inter-university historical
geography center (Universite Laval, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres,
Universite du Quebec a Montreal) called Centre interuniversitaire d'etudes
quebecoise. More volumes are already in progress.
 
See what may happen when geographers revisit History in a spatial
analysis and multi-graphic  approach. You will just be delighted!
 
Serge Courville published his INTRODUCTION A LA GEOGRAPHIE HISTORIQUE
(Presses de l'Universite Laval) last spring. His atlas illustrates his
methodological approach in scripto-graphic form.
 
I am certainly biaised but I can assure you that this atlas, fully
computer-produced, is a pretty good  illustration of the trend towards
publication of printed multimedia atlases.
 
 
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