Ontario Image, Identity, and Power

Name: Ontario Image, Identity, and Power
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ISBN: 9780195411379

ISBN-10: 0195411374

ISBN-13: 9780195411379

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter Baskerville

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The image on the cover of this volume, the fourth in Oxford's Illustrated History of Canada series, suggests many of the most prominent themes in Ontario's history: the landscape, natural resources, commercial activity, the railways that played such a central part in Confederation, the border that represents both separation from and links to the United States. What is not visible in the image is the human diversity that today may well be the province's most distinctivefeature. In 1870, of course, such diversity would have been unimaginable to Ontarians, the majority of whom traced their roots to the British Isles. Nevertheless, as Peter Baskerville points out, Ontario was never the…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 9.20" wide x 7.20" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Peter Baskerville is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria and author of The Bank of Upper Canada.



Preface


Acknowledgements



Change and Exchange: 9000 BCE-1500 CE



Cultural Transformation: 1580-1653



Contested Terrain and Cultural Mixing: 1653-1763



The 'Men with Hats': 1763-1791



Rural Life: 1791-1871



Towards a Canadian Polity: 1791-1867



Ontario in the New Dominion: 1867-1905



The Making of Industrial Ontario: 1905-1923



Boom, Bust, and War: 1823-1943



Modern Ontario: 1945-2000


Notes


Index