A Little History of Canada

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Oxford University Press, 2017 - History - 287 pages
Throughout his lively and opinionated history, award-winning author H.V. Nelles takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. Canada's enduring theme, he argues, is transformation. The country has undergone several fundamental changes, from Indigenous occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an independent nation - and it is doing so yet again.

Revised throughout, this 150th anniversary edition includes new material addressing issues currently affecting Canada including Indigenous peoples and their relationships with Canada, immigration, national resources and fossil fuels, and the Arctic.

About the author (2017)

H.V. Nelles is the award-winning author of The Art of Nation-Building, Monopoly's Moment, and The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has twice received the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize in Canadian History. Currently, he holds the L.R. Wilson Chair in Canadian History at McMaster University.

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