Interpreting Canada's past: a pre-confederation reader

Interpreting Canada's Past: A Pre-Confederation Reader is the first of two volumes of primary and secondary documents designed to accompany J.M. Bumsted's two-volume text The Peoples of Canada or his single-volume text A History of the Canadian Peoples. Each chapter begins with an introduction that provides the necessary context for the documents that follow and includes extensive questions for consideration and listings of related readings. The fully revised newfourth edition includes dozens of new articles as well as examples of visual history. INDICE: Preface; 1: Origins and Contact; 2: Missionaries and First Nations; 3: Seigneurial Regime in New France; 4: Expulsion of the Acadians; 5: Representing Acadia and Canada; 6: Loyalists; 7: Fur Trade in the Northwest; 8: Immigration in the Early Nineteenth century; 9: Rebellions in Lower Canada; 10: Women in British North America; 11: Aboriginal People in British North America; 12: 'Rushing'the Empire Westward; 13: Metis; 14: Confederation and Anti-Confederation

• ISBN: 978-0-19-542779-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 496
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés