Author : John George Lambton Earl of Durham
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Conrad Black
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0771012934
Sweeping, ambitious, and revelatory, this is the second volume in a major history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians—a book every Canadian should own. From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada—a masterful, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation. The second of three volumes, spanning from the year 1867-1949, this compelling history challenges our perception of our history and Canada's role in the world, taking on sweeping themes and vividly recounting the story of Canada's development from colony to dominion to country. Black persuasively reveals that while many would argue that Canada was perhaps never predestined for greatness, the opposite is in fact true: the emergence of a magnificent country, against all odds, was a remarkable achievement. Brilliantly conceived, this major new reexamination of our country's history is a riveting tour de force by one of the best writers writing today.
Author : Janet Ajzenstat
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773506374
Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America is usually discussed only in terms of its historical context - the events that brought Durham to Canada and the consequences of the Report's reform proposals. In a markedly different approach, Janet Ajzenstat treats the Report as a text in modern political thought. She develops Durham's underlying arguments and assumptions, demonstrating the essentially liberal character of his recommendations and revealing a tough-minded argument about political freedom and the place of national minorities in a free society.
Author : M. P. Cowen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134801882
Doctrines of Development sets out a critique of the idea of practice of development by exploring the history of development theory and action from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century, from Britain to Quebec and Kenya.
Author : Archibald Paton Thornton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 1452910359
Author : Ian F W Beckett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317322177
The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period.
Author : W. David McIntyre
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
ISBN : 1452907803
The author, a professor of history at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, presents a comprehensive survey of Commonwealth history from the time of soul-searching about the future of the British Empire, which marked the middle years of Queen Victoria’s reign, to the year when Britain decided to enter the European Community. The account is divided in three periods - 1869 to 1917, 1917 to 1941, and 1942 to 1971. Within each period a four-fold thematic divisions is followed: Dominions, Indian Empire, crown colonies, and protectorates.
Author : Philip Temple
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781869402761
At once notorious and visionary, Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his brothers played a key but controversial role in the early British settlement of New Zealand, Australia and Canada. Once famed as New Zealand's 'Founding Fathers', they have since become the arch-villains of all post-colonial scenarios of the past. In stitching together a net of letters and documents, Temple has produced the most comprehensive account yet of the Wakefield family's role in colonial development and self-government across the old Commonwealth.
Author : Martin Brook Taylor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802068262
"In these two volumes, which replace the Reader's Guide to Canadian History, experts provide a select and critical guide to historical writing about pre- and post-Confederation Canada, with an emphasis on the most recent scholarship" -- Cover.
Author : William Westfall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 1990-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773507975
Religion was at the heart of Ontario life for many years. In Two Worlds, Westfall examines the origin, character, and social significance of the powerful and distinctive Protestant culture that grew and flourished in Southern Ontario in the mid-Victorian period.
