A concise history of Canada / Margaret Conrad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conrad, Margaret, author.

Series:

Cambridge concise histories.

Cambridge concise histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canada--History.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer and teacher of Canadian history, Conrad offers astute answers to these difficult questions. Beginning in Canada's deep past with the arrival of its Aboriginal peoples, she traces its history through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War and the industrialization of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to its prosperous present. Despite its successes and its popularity as a destination for immigrants from across the world, Canada remains a curiously reluctant player on the international stage. This intelligent, concise and lucid book explains just why that is.

Contents:

Introduction: a cautious country

Since time immemorial

Natives and newcomers, 1000-1661

New France, 1661-1763

A revolutionary age, 1763-1821

Transatlantic communities, 1815-1849

Coming together, 1850-1885

Making progress, 1885-1914

Hanging on, 1914 to 1945

Liberalism triumphant, 1945-1984

Interesting times, 1984-2010.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-22465-9

1-139-36548-7

1-280-87896-7

9786613720276

1-139-37800-7

1-139-03240-2

1-139-37514-8

1-139-37115-0

1-139-37943-7

1-139-37657-8

OCLC:

797919777