The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History / Edition 4

by J.M. Bumsted

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195446364
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	10.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

For over 25 years, John M. Bumsted taught history at the University of Manitoba. He is now enjoying retirement.

Table of Contents

List of maps, tables, primary source documents, and biographiesIntroduction: Understanding HistoryPART I: 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 II: 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 III: 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, 1821-186821. Early Victorian Society, 1840-187022. Early Victorian Culture, 1840-187023. Industrialization, 1850-187024. Unification, 1862-1867Writing about the Canadian Fur TradePART IV: 1867-1885Introduction25. The Completion of Confederation, 1867-187326. Envisioning the New Nation, 1867-1885Writing about ConfederationNotesIndex