The structure of Canadian history

Finlay, John L. 1939- (Author). Sprague, D. N. (Douglas N.), 1944- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 013459942X
Physical Description: xv, 688 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
print
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice Hall, Allyn and Bacon, c1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

First people, Canada before 1500 -- Novel conquests-Europe's first colonies in America, 1500-1600 -- Traders, missionaries, and ecological disaster, 1580-1660 -- Imperial intervention, 1661-1672 -- The social character of New France, 1670-1760 -- Conflict of empires, 1670-1760 -- Reform and reaction, 1763-1783 -- Expansion, 1783-1816 -- War returns to British North America, 1807-1821 -- Political unrest, 1816-1837 -- The transformation of the old colonial system, 1838-1850 -- Price of autonomy, 1840-1860 -- Federal Union, 1841-1864 -- Confederation, 1864-1869 -- The "mercenary" route to national consolidation, 1869-1873 -- The "mercenary way" in disgrace and rejuvenation, 1873-1878 -- Years of crisis, 1879-1887 -- Illusions of fulfillment, 1888-1914 -- Social costs of industrialization, 1870-1914 -- National aspirations between imperial contexts, 1897-1911 -- The imperial tragedy, 1912-1917 -- Social disintegration, 1917-1929 -- The disintegration of national politics, 1919-1929 -- Prosperity, depression, and the quest for restoration, 1924-1939 -- Recovery by war, 1940-1945 -- Continental solidarity, 1941-1956 -- The Diefenbaker phenomenon, 1957-1962 -- Tenth-decade diplomacy, 1963-1967 -- New era of confrontation, 1968-1976 -- Constitutional draw, 1976-1982 -- Ineffective reconciliation, 1983-1990 -- Towards confederal association, 1990-1996 -- Epilogue: Are we smarter than algae? -- Appendix 1: Statistical tables - Table 1: Population of Canada, by province, census dates, 1851-1991 -- Table 2: Urban population of Canada, 1871-1991 -- Table 3: Immigrant arrivals in Canada, 1852-1989 -- Table 4: Estimates of changes in the population ten years and over through natural increase and migration, 1881-1976 -- Table 5: Population and economic development, Canada and the U.S., 1870-1994 -- Table 6: Canadian export trade, selected years, 1869-1994 -- Table 7: Canadian import trade, selected years, 1869-1994 -- Table 8: Tax revenues of the federal government, 1867-1993 -- Table 9: Expenditures of the federal government, 1867-1992 -- Table 10: Revenues of the provinces, selected years, 1933-1992 -- Table 12: Canadian ministries, 1867-1993 -- Table 13: Votes polled in federal general elections, 1867-1993 -- Table 14: Members elected to the House of Commons, 1867-1993 -- Appendix II (Part A): The British North America Act -- Appendix II (Part B): The Constitution Act, 1982.