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- Title
Des flambeaux et des silhouettes: Nuit, ville, crime et insécurité à Québec (1820-1845).
- Authors
GAGNON, ALEX
- Abstract
The contemporary debates on security and insecurity related to crime are not, as is often thought, specific to the late 20th century; in fact, they revive, in their own way, the old fear of crime that have, since the early 19th century, periodically shaken major cities of the Western world. While the case of France has been comprehensively studied, the Lower-Canada versions of the phenomenon, however, remain far less known. Nevertheless, they have occurred as far back as the 1820's and 1830's, at a time when urban insecurity and fear of crime sparked, in a city like Paris, the first collective panics fuelled by a thriving press. At that time, Lower-Canada cities were experiencing an unprecedented demographic and economic expansion. This article aims to explore, through the newspapers of that period, the evolution of the state of insecurity that overwhelmed the city of Quebec whose quiet nights, it seems, could sometimes be quite dangerous.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Quebec); QUEBEC (Province); SECURITY (Psychology); CRIME; FRENCH-Canadian newspapers; ENGLISH newspapers; URBAN life; STREET lighting; PUBLIC safety; HISTORY of Quebec (Province); NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, 2017, Vol 70, Issue 3, p31
- ISSN
0035-2357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1039517ar