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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797231603321

Titolo

The Atlantic region to Confederation : a history / / edited by Phillip A. Buckner and John G. Reid ; Eric Leinberger, cartographer ; Graeme Wynn, cartographic editor ; Mitchell A. McNutt, picture editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005

©1994

ISBN

1-4426-5105-9

1-4426-3267-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (526 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

971.5

Soggetti

HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867)

History

Electronic books.

Atlantic Provinces History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- MAPS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: CULTURES AND COEXISTENCE, TO 1720 -- 1 Early Societies: Sequences of Change -- 2 The Sixteenth Century: Aboriginal Peoples and European Contact -- 3 1600-1650: Fish, Fur, and Folk -- 4 1650-1686: 'Un pays qui n'est pas fait' -- 5 1686-1720: Imperial Intrusions -- PART TWO: THE ENCOUNTER WITH IMPERIAL MILITARISM, 1720-1820 -- 6 1720-1744: Cod, Louisbourg, and the Acadians -- 7 1744-1763: Colonial Wars and Aboriginal Peoples -- 8 1763-1783: Resettlement and Rebellion -- 9 1783-1800: Loyalist Arrival, Acadian Return, Imperial Reform -- 10 1800-1810: Turning the Century -- 11 1810-1820: War and Peace -- PART THREE: THE CONSOLIDATION OF COLONIAL SOCIETY, 1820-1867 -- 12 The 1820s: Peace, Privilege, and the Promise of Progress -- 13 The 1830s: Adapting Their Institutions to Their Desires -- 14 The 1840s: Decade of Tribulation -- 15 The 1850s: Maturity and Reform -- 16 The 1860s: An End and a Beginning -- NOTES -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A



-- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

The book re-assesses many old themes from a new perspective, and seeks to broaden the focus of regional history to include those groups whom the traditional historiography ignored or marginalized.