Canada in the European age, 1453-1919 / R.T. Naylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naylor, R. T., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Canada--Economic conditions--To 1763.

Canada.

Canada--Economic conditions--19th century.

Canada--Foreign economic relations--Europe.

Europe--Foreign economic relations--Canada.

Europe.

Canada--Foreign economic relations--United States.

United States--Foreign economic relations--Canada.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 617 p.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As Bruce Trigger explains in his preface, Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was the first history in which native peoples appeared as genuine actors in human dramas - mainly tragedies - instead of as part of the flora and fauna in the background. By stressing the interconnections between the grand events of the conquest and subjegation of the globe by European empire builders and the less dramatic events in Canada, Naylor's book led to a fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian social, economic, and political history.

Contents:

1. The discoveries

2. The foundations of English bullionism

3. The foundations of French bullionism

4. The aftermath of the discoveries

5. The origins of the English plantation system

6. The origins of the French plantation system

7. Competition for empire, 1663-1713

8. France in America, 1713-1763

9. Competition for empire, 1713-1763

10. The triumph and collapse of British mercantilism

11. The industrial revolution and the colonial system

12. Competition for empire, 1793-1832

13. The Atlantic seaboard : from mercantilism to industrial capitalism

14. The contest for the continental interior, 1763-1821

15. Emigration and colonization, 1763-1841

16. Finance and politics in Canada, 1793-1841

17. The triumph of steam and gold

18. Commercial reorientation and structural change in the economy of United Canada

19. The dawn of the railway age in British North America

20. The railroad to confederation : Canadian expansion

21. The railroad to confederation : the maritime response

22. Reconquest of the northwest

23. The rise of the Pacific economy

24. Fur trade and Pacific empire

25. From company colony to company province

26. Imperialist rivalries, 1873-1914

27. A railway from Europe to China

28. The contest for the continental interior, 1873-1914

29. Canada and the cross of gold

30. Industrial development and continental integration

31. Transcontinental empire

32. Canadian expansion overseas

33. The approach of war

34. The Canadian economy in the Great War

35. The aftermath of war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612865961

9780773583610

0773583610

9781282865969

128286596X

9780773575462

0773575464

OCLC:

923234509