Newfoundland and Labrador : A History /

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Cadigan comprehensively details everything from the first European settlements, the displacement and extinction of the indigenous Beothuk by European settlers, the conflicts between settlers and imperial governance, to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment's near annihilation at the Battle of the Som...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cadigan, Sean T. (Sean Thomas), 1962-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2009
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Labrador.
Neufundland.
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador.
Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador > Histoire.
Newfoundland and Labrador > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Scarce environmental leeway, nationalism, and the long term in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • The first peoples by the sea
  • The European encounter
  • Migrants and settlers : the development of a fishing society, 1610-1775
  • Not quite a colony, 1775-1824
  • A colonial state, 1824-1855
  • Responsible government and landward industrialization, 1855-1895
  • Twilight of the national policy, 1897-1908
  • The politics of hope and demoralization, 1908-1934
  • Commission, depression, and war, 1934-1945
  • The land of milk and honey, 1946-1972
  • The limits of neo-nationalism, 1972-2003
  • Not a nation.

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