A Concise History of Canada

A new edition of Margaret Conrad's lucid account of the diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state of Canada.

List of contents

Introduction: a cautious country; 1. Since time immemorial; 2. Natives and newcomers, 1000-1661; 3. New France, 1661-1744; 4. The struggle for a continent, 1744-1763; 5. A revolutionary age, 1763-1815; 6. The great northwest, 1763-1849; 7. Transatlantic communities, 1815-1849; 8. Coming together, 1849-1885; 9. Making progress, 1885-1914; 10. Hanging on, 1914-1945; 11. Liberalism ascendant, 1945-1984; 12. Anxious times, 1984-2015; 13. Where are We Now?

About the author

Margaret Conrad has published widely in the fields of Canadian history, women's studies, and digital humanities. She is co-author of a two-volume History of the Canadians Peoples, Atlantic Canada: A History and Canadians and Their Pasts. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and served as president of the Canadian Historical Association from 2005 to 2007. She has received four honorary degrees.

Summary

From the arrival of Indigenous peoples, through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War, and Confederation in the nineteenth century to its prosperous present, this new edition of Margaret Conrad's history of Canada offers a lucid account of this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Conrad, Margaret (University of New Brunswick) Conrad, Conrad Margaret
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781108498463
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49846-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Canada, HISTORY / World, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas