Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 /
As Bruce Trigger explains in his preface, Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was the first history in which native peoples appeared as genuine actors in human dramas - mainly tragedies - instead of as part of the flora and fauna in the background. By stressing the interconnections between the gra...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca :
MQUP,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The discoveries
- 2. The foundations of English bullionism
- 3. The foundations of French bullionism
- 4. The aftermath of the discoveries
- 5. The origins of the English plantation system
- 6. The origins of the French plantation system
- 7. Competition for empire, 1663-1713
- 8. France in America, 1713-1763
- 9. Competition for empire, 1713-1763
- 10. The triumph and collapse of British mercantilism
- 11. The industrial revolution and the colonial system
- 12. Competition for empire, 1793-1832
- 13. The Atlantic seaboard : from mercantilism to industrial capitalism
- 14. The contest for the continental interior, 1763-1821
- 15. Emigration and colonization, 1763-1841
- 16. Finance and politics in Canada, 1793-1841
- 17. The triumph of steam and gold
- 18. Commercial reorientation and structural change in the economy of United Canada
- 19. The dawn of the railway age in British North America
- 20. The railroad to confederation : Canadian expansion
- 21. The railroad to confederation : the maritime response
- 22. Reconquest of the northwest
- 23. The rise of the Pacific economy
- 24. Fur trade and Pacific empire
- 25. From company colony to company province
- 26. Imperialist rivalries, 1873-1914
- 27. A railway from Europe to China
- 28. The contest for the continental interior, 1873-1914
- 29. Canada and the cross of gold
- 30. Industrial development and continental integration
- 31. Transcontinental empire
- 32. Canadian expansion overseas
- 33. The approach of war
- 34. The Canadian economy in the Great War
- 35. The aftermath of war.