Concise History of Canada

Name: Concise History of Canada
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ISBN: 9780521744430

ISBN-10: 0521744431

ISBN-13: 9780521744430

Edition: 2011

Authors: Margaret Conrad

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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…

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List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Introduction: a cautious country



Since time immemorial



Natives and newcomers, 1000ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1661



New France, 1661ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1763



A revolutionary age, 1763ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1821



Transatlantic communities, 1815ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1849



Coming together, 1850ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1885



Making progress, 1885ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1914



Hanging on, 1914ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1945



Liberalism triumphant, 1945ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1984



Interesting times, 1984ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½2010