Paul-Andre Linteau

See also: Lintel

Paul-Andre Linteau (1946 -) is a historian and a university professor of Quebec.

He is specialist in the Histoire in Quebec and the posterior Histoire in Montreal to the Confederation (1867 at our days). He teaches the history with UQAM. He practices the economic and social history and the urban history. Following his thesis of doctorate on the town of Maisonneuve, Paul-Andre Linteau concentrated his research on the study of the city, in particular of Montreal, and it is since 1975 one of the directors of the Group of research on the history of Montreal. Lintel in particular seeks to include/understand and explain the phenomenon of the urbanization as well as the conditions which allow the urban development, the organization of urban space, the social and cultural characteristics of the populations which live it and the reports/ratios of being able.

It is interested since a score of years in immigration and ethnic diversity in Quebec. He works at present with the drafting of an overall portrait of this double phenomenon through the history of Quebec, a portrait which will put in “light the principal phases and their characteristics, not only on the demographic level, but also on the plans socio-economic and political”.

He is also one of the literary advisers to the Éditions of Boreal the, and more specifically, director of the collections of history since 1971.

In the middle of the years 1990, the historian Ronald Rudin described as revisionist the historical school directed by Linteau, Jean-Claude Robert, Rene Durocher, Pierre Harvey and Gerard Bouchard. These historians “would have tended to minimize” the influence of North-American liberalism and the Catholic religion in Quebec of before 1960. Lintel answered criticism vigorously. This debate is certainly one of most important to have shaken the Québécois histogriography these last years.

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