Carleton University’s Bruce Curtis, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has won two Canadian History Association (CHA) awards.  His book, Ruling By Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality – A Historical Sociology was awarded the CHA’s Clio-Quebec Prize for the best book on the history of Quebec and the Political History Prize – Best Book, awarded by the Political History Group (PHG), a CHA-affiliated committee.

Ruling by Schooling Quebec is an innovative and forceful examination of the links between education, power and governance from 1759 to 1841. Meticulously and exhaustively researched, it examines the attempts of colonial administrators and their local allies to introduce structures and modes of liberal government in Quebec and Lower Canada through schooling the population. As one prize committee member described it: “This book is a tour de force of creativity, breadth, and flair,” and is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the contested history of liberal governance and education in Quebec in the 19th century.

This is first book since the 1950s to investigate an unusually complex period in Quebec’s educational history and it extends the sophisticated method used in his double-award-winning Politics of Population.

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