Promise of Eden : The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900 /
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.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto, Ont. :
University of Toronto Press,
1992.
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Edición: | Repr. with new pref. 1992. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.