The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before ConfederationWinner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s and early 1870s. It shows how a deeply indigenous land was reconstituted in European terms, and, at the same time, how European ways were recalibrated in this non-European space. It also shows how an archipelago of scattered settlement emerged out of an encounter with a parsimonious territory, and suggests how deeply this encounter differed from an American relationship with abundance. The book begins with a description of land and life in northern North America in 1500, and ends by considering the relationship between the pattern of early Canada and the country as we know it today. Intended to illuminate the background of modern Canada, The Reluctant Land is an intelligent discussion of people and place that will be welcomed by scholars and lay readers alike. |
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... Canada, Canada before Confederation: A Historical Geography In the late 1970s and through much of the 805, I edited another general account, the first volume of the Historical Atlas of Canada. The former, which was intended as an ...
... Atlas of Canada, for example). She had a deep, abiding respect for careful, archival scholarship, and, through her own such work, for the ordinary people of early Canada, knowing as she did the difficulty of most of their lives. She was ...
... Atlas of Canada, the first volume of which I edited, assembled an enormous body of considered information, to which this book is greatly indebted, about the spatial organization of early Canadian society. More recently, Donald Meinig's ...
Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation Cole Harris. Although I did not ask the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to support this book, the council's generous assistance for the Historical Atlas of ...
... Canada in 1500. Map 1.1 suggests its approximate distribution at that date. This map is a drastic cartographic aggregation of many complex. ' > 8,000 Q 4,000-s,000 0 1,000-4,000 - 250-1000 <250 '1 Population not shown 0 500 miles \_._._ ...
Contents
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5 Creating and Bounding British North America | 117 |
6 Newfoundland | 137 |
7 The Maritimes | 162 |
8 Lower Canada | 231 |
9 Upper Canada | 306 |
10 The Northwestern Interior 17601870 | 377 |
11 British Columbia | 416 |
12 Confederation and the Pattern of Canada | 448 |
Index | 476 |
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