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Before Canada : Northern North America in a Connected World / edited by Allan Greer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada Series
- McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant le Canada Series ; Volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Modern--20th century.
- History, Modern.
- Canada--History--To 1763 (New France).
- Canada.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (423 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the incursions of Europeans fishers, explorers and colonizers. In Before Canada, archaeologists, historians and literary scholars combine to reveal the latest research findings on this fascinating early period.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Before Canada
- Introduction Canada before Canada
- 1 After Beringia: The Archaeology of Indigenous Social Networks
- 2 Ways of Becoming: The Apachean Departure from the Canadian Subarctic
- 3 The Newfoundland Fisheries in an Early Atlantic World, 1400–1550
- 4 Sea Change: Indigenous Navigation and Relations with Basques around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, ca. 1500–1700
- 5 In the Round and on the Page: Canada in the English Geographical Imaginary, circa 1600
- 6 Labrador Inuit at the Crossroads of Cultural Interaction
- 7 Corridors of Jurisdiction: The Role of Aquatic Spaces in Sovereign Claims-Making in New France (1600s–1620s)
- 8 Saved from the Waters: The Drowning World of Paul Lejeune
- 9 Debt, Liquor, and Violence in the Fur Trade
- 10 Maple, Beaver, and New Roots for a Global Early Canada
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780228023524
- 0228023521
- 9780228019558
- 0228019559
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