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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... Britain developed a deepening commitment to Confederation because even a superficially united assembly of former provinces could be expected to shift more for itself and en- able Britain to withdraw its forces without losing face to the ...
... Britain had begun her withdrawal from North America , but the Canadians were not totally abandoned . The late nineteenth century was a time of British naval supremacy ; as long as Great Britain maintained that position , Canada would ...
... Britain to abandon the renewal of a treaty between Japan and Britain dat- ing from 1902 that was a pact between countries as empires . The Liberals were no less hesitant in the further promotion of Canadian autonomy between 1921 and ...