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Table Of ContentMapsTablesBoxesIntroduction: Understanding HistoryPart One: To 1760Introduction1. The Peoples of Early North America2. Contacts and Encounters3. Early European Approaches4. The Atlantic Region to 16705. Canada to 16636. Canada 1663-1763: Government, Military, Economy7. Canada 1663-1763: Population, Society, Culture8. The Peripheries of the Empires, 1670-17609. A Century of Conflict, 1660-1760Writing about Aboriginal Peoples' HistoryPart Two: 1760-1840Introduction10. The Expansion and Contraction of British North America, 1760-178211. Loyalties and Loyalists, 1775-179112. Colonial Politics, War, and Rebellion, 1791-184013. The New Immigrants and Settlements: Peopling British North America, 1791-186014. The Colonial Economy, 1791-184015. Colonial Society, 1791-184016. Colonial Culture, 1791-1840Writing about Women's HistoryPart Three: 1840-1870Introduction17. Political and Administrative Reform, 1840-186018. Reorientation: British North America and the Empire after 184019. Reorientation: British North America and the Continent after 184020. The West and the North, 1820-186821. Early Victorian Society, 1840-187022. Early Victorian Culture, 1840-187023. Industrialization, 1850-187024. Unification, 1862-1867Writing about the Canadian Fur Trade NEW!Part Four: 1867-1885Introduction25. The Completion of Confederation, 1867-187326. Envisioning the New Nation, 1867-1885Writing about Confederation NEW!NotesIndex
SynopsisThoroughly revised and updated to incorporate new scholarship and fresh approaches, The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History, fourth edition, traces the patterns of early immigration over the Bering Strait and across the Atlantic, while highlighting landmark political, economic, cultural, and social developments in the years before 1867. The first part of a two-volume set, the text now extends its coverage past Confederation to the milestone year of 1885, when the completion of the CPR united the nation, and the hanging of Louis Riel deepened the divisions between its French, English, and Aboriginal peoples.Bringing all the hallmarks of previous editions together with significant new material and indispensable pedagogical tools, The Peoples of Canada, fourth edition, is the definitive introduction to pre-Confederation Canadian history., J.M. Bumsted's bestselling survey of Canadian social, cultural, political, and economic history in the years before Confederation is now in its fourth edition. Retaining the hallmark features of previous editions, this edition incorporates new scholarship and a fresh approach to studying the patterns of early immigration in pre-Confederation Canada and the development of our nation., The first volume of a two-volume series, The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History, fourth edition, is an introductory text for first- and second-year students that surveys the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Canada from first contact to Confederation., Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate new scholarship and fresh approaches, The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History, fourth edition, traces the patterns of early immigration over the Bering Strait and across the Atlantic, while highlighting landmark political, economic, cultural, and social developments in the years before 1867. The first part of a two-volume set, the text now extends its coverage past Confederation to the milestone year of 1885, when the completion of the CPR united the nation, and the hanging of Louis Riel deepened the divisions between its French, English, and Aboriginal peoples. Bringing all the hallmarks of previous editions together with significant new material and indispensable pedagogical tools, The Peoples of Canada, fourth edition, is the definitive introduction to pre-Confederation Canadian history., Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate new scholarship and fresh approaches, The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History , fourth edition, traces the patterns of early immigration over the Bering Strait and across the Atlantic, while highlighting landmark political, economic, cultural, and social developments in the years before 1867. The first part of a two-volume set, the text now extends its coverage past Confederation to the milestone year of 1885, when the completion of the CPR united the nation, and the hanging of Louis Riel deepened the divisions between its French, English, and Aboriginal peoples. Bringing all the hallmarks of previous editions together with significant new material and indispensable pedagogical tools, The Peoples of Canada , fourth edition, is the definitive introduction to pre-Confederation Canadian history.
LC Classification NumberF1030