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Promise of Eden : the Canadian expansionist movement and the idea of the West, 1856-1900 / / Doug Owram



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Autore: Owram Doug <1947-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Promise of Eden : the Canadian expansionist movement and the idea of the West, 1856-1900 / / Doug Owram Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1992
©1980
Edizione: Repr. with new pref. 1992.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
Disciplina: 971.2/01
Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Canada / General
Soggetto geografico: Northwest, Canadian History
Canada Territorial expansion
Soggetto genere / forma: History
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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.
Titolo autorizzato: Promise of Eden  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-04548-2
9786612045486
1-4426-7881-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780565403321
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