The Invention of Canada : readings in pre-Confederation history

Gaffield, Chad, 1951- (editor., Added Author).

Summary: "The Invention of Canada includes examples of the some of the best recent scholarship on the development of society, economy and politics in pre-Confederation Canada, scholarship that not only promotes new ways of viewing history, but new methods of research as well. The readings emphasis gender, class, ethnicity and region, as well as people's relationship to the environment, to provide a wide-ranging view of Canada's past."

Record details

ISBN: 0773052526 :
ISBN: 9780773052529 :
Physical Description: xxviii, 591 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Toronto : Copp Clark Longman, [1994].

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Beginnings -- And the people came / Olive Patricia Dickason -- The great wave of extinctions / E.C. Pielou -- Married women in the family economy / Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott -- The Amerindian discovery of Europe: accounts of first contact in Anishinabeg oral tradition / D. Peter MacLeod -- The destruction of Huronia / Georges E. Sioui -- 2. France in America -- Social groups / Louise Dechene -- Amerindian views of French culture in the seventeenth century / Cornelius J. Jaenen -- Tattered clothes and powdered wigs: case studies of the poor and well-to-do in eighteenth-century Louisbourg / Kenneth Donovan -- Atlantic empires of France and Spain: Louisbourg and Havana / John Robert McNeill -- La mer de l'ouest: outpost of empire / W.J. Eccles -- 3. Origins of British North America -- Corporate structure and private interest: the mid-eighteenth-century expansion of New England / Elizabeth Mancke -- "In these times of democratic rage and delusion": popular religion and the challenge to the established order, 1760-1815 / Nancy Christie -- Culture, state formation, and the invention of tradition: Newfoundland, 1832-1855 / Phillip McCann -- The colonial economy and the world market, 1760-1850: the trade of the St Lawrence Valley / Fernand Ouellet -- The role of women in the establishment of social status in early Upper Canada / Katherine M.J. McKenna -- From folklore to revolution: Charivaris and the Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837 / Allan Greer -- Upper Canada - an American community? / Jane Errington -- Marketing wildlife: the Hudson's Bay Company and the Pacific Northwest, 1821-1849 / Lorne Hammond -- "What if Mama is an Indian?": the cultural ambivalence of the Alexander Ross family / Sylvia Van Kirk -- The people of a Canadian city: 1851-1852 / Michael Katz -- Order and experience: the religious and cultural roots of protestant Ontario / William Westfall -- 4. Industrializing Canada -- The spread of rural industry in Lower Canada, 1831-1851 / Serge Courville, Jean-Claude Robert, and Normand Seguin -- Children, schooling,and family reproduction in nineteenth-century Ontario / Chad Gaffield -- The maritimes and confederation: a reassessment / Phillip Buckner -- George-Etienne Cartier: business, family and social position / Brian Young.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:	Donation (copy 2 only) ; 2003/07.