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The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth- Century Nova Scotia.

The quest of the folk: antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia

Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

Reigns of Terror

Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. By Hans Thomas Hakl. Translated by Christopher McIntosh. Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 440. Paper, $34.95.

COOK, Sharon Anne, Lorna R. McLEAN et Kate O’ROURKE, Framing Our Past. Canadian Women’s History in the Twentieth Century (Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001), 495 p.

In the province of history: the making of the public past in twentieth-century Nova Scotia

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