Your Book Review: Cities And The Wealth Of Nations/The Question Of Separatism
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The Question of Separatism, Quebec and the Struggle Over Sovereignty
The Question of Separatism, Quebec and The Struggle Over Sovereignty by Jane Jacobs was published in 1980. It is based on lectures that Jacobs gave right before the referendum where Quebecers voted to remain a part of Canada. Most people outside Quebec or Canada don't have any reason to care about this book because it argues in favour of secession. Few people in Quebec itself read it, since the referendum was over,. As a result, The Question Of Separatism sits awkwardly in Jane Jacobs' bibliography. In a 2005 interview, one year before her death, Jacobs said that no journalist ever asked her about it. But the book was not a mistake. She said that she would have
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