----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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. ***************************************************************** Yves Tessier Cartotheque Tel.: 418.656.2002 Bibliotheque de l'Universite Laval Fax: 418.656.7793 Quebec, Canada G1K 7P4 [log in to unmask] *****************************************************************