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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... Treaty of Utrecht / 105 Settlement around and beyond the Great Lakes, 1750 / 107 Distribution of Native groups northwest of the Great Lakes, 1720-60 / 113 France in North America, c. 1750 / 118 Geopolitical claims to North America, 1763 ...
... treaties, and boundary settlements out of which British North America emerged, and in so doing establishes the geographical framework for the rest of the book. From this point, my treatment is regional because in these years British ...
... treaties and to grant permission to cross tribal territory but not to interfere with the internal affairs of any clan segment other than his own. And beyond the tribe was the confederacy and its associated confederacy council, to which ...
... Treaty of Saint Germain—en—Laye in 1632. Father Le Ieune, the Iesuit priest who ac— companied the French back to Quebec, reported that only one French farming family had survived the Anglo-Scottish years. Although by this date an ...
... Treaty of Utrecht (ending the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-13) confirmed the loss; the Acadians, French-speaking and Roman Catholic, found themselves in an English colony that did not know quite what to do with them. More often ...
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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The Reluctant Land: Society, Space, and Environment in Canada Before ... Cole Harris No preview available - 2008 |