|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910780565403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Owram Doug <1947-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Promise of Eden : the Canadian expansionist movement and the idea of the West, 1856-1900 / / Doug Owram |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1992 |
|
©1980 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-282-04548-2 |
9786612045486 |
1-4426-7881-X |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[Repr. with new pref. 1992.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (281 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
HISTORY / Canada / General |
History |
Electronic books. |
Northwest, Canadian History |
Canada Territorial expansion |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
1. A far and distant corner of the Empire: the image of Rupert's Land before 1850 -- 2. New worlds to conquer: the opening of the expansionist campaign, 1856-57 -- 3. A means to empire: Canada's reassessment of the West, 1857-69 -- 4. Conspiracy and rebellion: the Red River resistance, 1869-70 -- 5. The geography of empire: the quest for settlers in the 1870s -- 6. The character of empire: the Britain of the West -- 7. John Macoun's Eden: the final stage of expansionism, 1878-83 -- 8. Disillusionment: regional discontent in the 1880s -- 9. The West as past: the foundations of western history. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Doug Owram analyses the various phases of this development, examining in particular the writings - historical, scientific, journalistic, and promotional - that illuminate one of the most significant movements in the history of nineteenth-century Canada. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|