Author : Fred Landon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 1967-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0773591621
This illuminating study of the social history of Canada depicts the important elements of American culture that were brought into western Ontario during the 19th century.
Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : [Leicester, Eng.] : Leicester University Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Carol Kammen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742503991
How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consider, sources to use, historical fields and trends to explore. It also provides commentary on a number of subjects, including the everyday topics that most local historians encounter. A handy reference tool that no public historian's desk should be without!
Author : William John Eccles
Publisher : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
This acclaimed general history of ‘New France’ recounts the French era in Canada.
Author : Jason Kaufman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674274466
Why do the United States and Canada have such divergent political cultures when they share one of the closest economic and cultural relationships in the world? Canadians and Americans consistently disagree over issues such as the separation of church and state, the responsibility of government for the welfare of everyone, the relationship between federal and subnational government, and the right to marry a same-sex partner or to own an assault rifle. In this wide-ranging work, Jason Kaufman examines the North American political landscape to draw out the essential historical factors that underlie the countries’ differences. He discusses the earliest European colonies in North America and the Canadian reluctance to join the American Revolution. He compares land grants and colonial governance; territorial expansion and relations with native peoples; immigration and voting rights. But the key lies in the evolution and enforcement of jurisdictional law, which illuminates the way social relations and state power developed in the two countries. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to readers of sociology, politics, law, and history as well as to anyone interested in the relationship between the United States and Canada.
Author : Allan Smith
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1994-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773564985
Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the notion that Canada can best be understood if viewed in relation to the United States, the book explores the ways in which American influences have challenged Canada's cultural independence and asks whether Canada has maintained its own identity.
Author : Michael S. Cross
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Canada
ISBN :
The American frontier thesis holds that the new vast land influenced the minds and characters of its settlers. Selections for this book were made on the basis of the variety of questions the authors posed to evaluate this thesis as it applies to Canada.
Author : George Raudzens
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0889206384
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Author : Samuel Adams Drake
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 8026897188
"This history is intended to meet the want for brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country. In this volume, I have followed up to its legitimate ending the work done by the three great rival powers of modern times in civilizing our continent. I have tried to make it the worthy, if modest, exponent of a great theme. The story grows to absorbing interest, as the great achievement of the age." Contents: Three Rival Civilizations The Spaniards An Historic Era De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi Death and Burial of De Soto The Indians of Florida How New Mexico Came to Be Explored "the Marvellous Country" Folk Lore of the Pueblos Last Days of Charles V. And Philip Ii. Sword and Gown in California The French Westward by the Great Inland Waterways The Situation in a.d. 1672 Count Frontenac Joliet and Marquette The Man La Salle La Salle, Prince of Explorers Discovery of the Upper Mississippi The Lost Colony: St. Louis of Texas Iberville Founds Louisiana France Wins the Prize Louis Xiv. The English The Bleak North-west Coast Hudson's Bay to the South Sea The Russians in Alaska England on the Pacific Queen Elizabeth What Jonathan Carver Aimed to Do in 1766 John Ledyard's Idea A Yankee Ship Discovers the Columbia River The West at the Opening of the Century Birth of the American Idea. America for Americans. Acquisition of Louisiana A Glance at Our Purchase The Pathfinders Lewis and Clarke Ascend the Missouri They Cross the Continent Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley New Mexico in 1807 Gold in Colorado.—a Trapper's Story The Flag in Oregon Louisiana Admitted 1812 The Oregon Trail The Trapper, Backwoodsman, and Emigrant Long Explores the Platte Valley Missouri and the Compromise of 1821 Arkansas Admitted 1836 Thomas H. Benton's Idea With the Vanguard to Oregon Texas Admitted New Political Ideas Iowa Admitted The War With Mexico …
Author : Hilary Bates Neary
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0228015545
Lewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Canadian Black history and the history of religion in Canada. Born enslaved in Maryland, Chambers purchased his freedom as a young man before moving to Canada West in 1854; there he farmed and in time served as a pastor and missionary until 1868. Between 1858 and 1867 he wrote nearly one hundred letters to the secretary of the American Missionary Association in New York, describing the progress of his work and the challenges faced by his community. Now preserved in the collections of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, Chambers’s letters provide a rare perspective on the everyday lives of Black settlers during a formative period in Canadian history. Hilary Neary presents Chambers’s letters, weaving into a compelling narrative his vivid accounts of ministering in forest camps and small urban churches, establishing Sabbath schools and temperance societies, combating prejudice, and offering spiritual encouragement. Chambers’s life as an American in Canada intersected with significant events in nineteenth-century Black history: manumission, the Fugitive Slave Act, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. Throughout, Chambers’s fervent Christian faith highlights and reflects the pivotal role of the Black church – African Methodist Episcopal (United States) and British Methodist Episcopal (Canada) – in the lives of the once enslaved. As North Americans explore afresh their history of race and racism, A Black American Missionary in Canada elevates an important voice from the nineteenth-century Black community to deepen knowledge of Canadian history.
