Promise of Eden : The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900 /

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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Owram, Doug, 1947-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Édition:Repr. with new pref. 1992.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Expansionspolitik
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Kanada
Kanada > Nordwest
Canada > Canadian Northwest.
Canada > Expansion territoriale.
Nord-Ouest canadien > Histoire.
Canada > Territorial expansion.
Northwest, Canadian > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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