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Author Buckner, Phillip

Title The Atlantic Region to Confederation : a History
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (526 pages)
Series Heritage
Heritage.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- MAPS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: CULTURES AND COEXISTENCE, TO 1720 -- 1 Early Societies: Sequences of Change -- 2 The Sixteenth Century: Aboriginal Peoples and European Contact -- 3 1600-1650: Fish, Fur, and Folk -- 4 1650-1686: 'Un pays qui n'est pas fait' -- 5 1686-1720: Imperial Intrusions -- PART TWO: THE ENCOUNTER WITH IMPERIAL MILITARISM, 1720-1820 -- 6 1720-1744: Cod, Louisbourg, and the Acadians -- 7 1744-1763: Colonial Wars and Aboriginal Peoples -- 8 1763-1783: Resettlement and Rebellion -- 9 1783-1800: Loyalist Arrival, Acadian Return, Imperial Reform -- 10 1800-1810: Turning the Century -- 11 1810-1820: War and Peace -- PART THREE: THE CONSOLIDATION OF COLONIAL SOCIETY, 1820-1867 -- 12 The 1820s: Peace, Privilege, and the Promise of Progress -- 13 The 1830s: Adapting Their Institutions to Their Desires -- 14 The 1840s: Decade of Tribulation -- 15 The 1850s: Maturity and Reform -- 16 The 1860s: An End and a Beginning -- NOTES -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary The book re-assesses many old themes from a new perspective, and seeks to broaden the focus of regional history to include those groups whom the traditional historiography ignored or marginalized
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Atlantic Provinces -- History
Subject Canada -- Atlantic Provinces
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Reid, John G
Buckner, Philip
ISBN 9781442632677
1442632674