The Structure of Canadian HistoryDesigned for courses on Pre and Post Confederation History of Canada. Finlay/Sprague is the only combined Pre/Post Confederation introductory textbook available in the Introductory Canadian History market. As a combined text, it offers a significant price advantage over competing split volumes. This text takes a political and sociological approach to Canadian history, and has been updated to include recent analysis of historical events. Written within in a solid chronological framework, the text provides a clear, comprehensive survey of the subject and good integration between traditional and new approaches to history. This text will prepare students well in the basic chronologies of Canadian history while providing the most up-to-date tools for research through its weblinks. |
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... seigneurial elite in New France were nearly identical to those of the nobility in France . In the beginnings of the colony , however , the rents and monopoly powers of seigneurs could not be realized or acted upon due to the simple fact ...
... seigneuries would be granted to them in free- hold , or they could take acreage as seigneurial concessions on one or another of the largely vacant seigneurial estates purchased by British military officers from emigrating French in the ...
... seigneurial estates . But seigneurial rents re- mained constant or increased , especially on the third of the seigneuries purchased by the newcomers since 1760 , and diminishing opportunities for summer voyaging due to the decline of ...