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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... Borden and the Conservatives as " Little Canada " policies . On the domestic level , Borden called Laurier's admin- istration outmoded as well as immoral . Robert Laird Borden exemplified the city - dwellers of his generation who were ...
... Borden dissociated himself from the old- fashioned considerations of patronage and party organization and tried to devote his 12 - hour working days to fulfilling the reform promises he had been making since 1907. In 1912 and 1913 , the ...
... Borden set the stage for the election that brought his party back in 1911 . Borden's adoption of the new " gag rule " arose from his uncertainty that the Conservatives could win an election in circumstances of declining economic condi ...