The Peoples of Canada

A Pre-Confederation History

Fourth Edition

J.M. Bumsted

New design. New eye-catching four-colour design and increased trim size increases visual appeal and enhances readability.
Updated pedagogical program. Updated tools for readers include two new historiography pieces and new boxed material in each chapter designed to help bring the text alive by connecting history to lived experience and by offering a talking point for students.
New artwork program. 15 new photographs accompany the new material and provide visual interest.
Canadian. This successful Canadian text is now in its fourth edition and is a well-established and well-loved text in the discipline.
Engaging narrative. The strong coverage of social, political, and economic history is framed in a narrative that is accessible and appealing to undergraduate students.
Comprehensive ancillaries package. This edition includes an upgraded Instructor's Manual, updated PowerPoint slides, an image bank, and a Student Study Guide (including weblinks) all designed to aid student learning.

The Peoples of Canada

A Pre-Confederation History

Fourth Edition

J.M. Bumsted

Description

Thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate new scholarship and fresh approaches, The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History, fourth edition, traces the patterns of early immigration over the Bering Strait and across the Atlantic, while highlighting landmark political, economic, cultural, and social developments in the years before 1867. The first part of a two-volume set, the text now extends its coverage past Confederation to the milestone year of 1885, when the completion of the CPR united the nation, and the hanging of Louis Riel deepened the divisions between its French, English, and Aboriginal peoples.

Bringing all the hallmarks of previous editions together with significant new material and indispensable pedagogical tools, The Peoples of Canada, fourth edition, is the definitive introduction to pre-Confederation Canadian history.

The Peoples of Canada

A Pre-Confederation History

Fourth Edition

J.M. Bumsted

Maps
Tables
Boxes
Introduction: Understanding History
PART I: To 1760
Introduction
1. The Peoples of Early North America
2. Contacts and Encounters
3. Early European Approaches
4. The Atlantic Region to 1670
5. Canada to 1663
6. Canada 1663-1763: Government, Military, Economy
7. Canada 1663-1763: Population, Society, Culture
8. The Peripheries of the Empires, 1670-1760
9. A Century of Conflict, 1660-1760
Writing about Aboriginal Peoples' History
PART II: 1760-1840
Introduction
10. The Expansion and Contraction of British North America, 1760-1782
11. Loyalties and Loyalists, 1775-1791
12. Colonial Politics, War, and Rebellion, 1791-1840
13. Peopling British North America, 1791-1860
14. The Colonial Economy, 1791-1840
15. Colonial Society, 1791-1840
16. Colonial Culture, 1791-1840
Writing about Women's History
PART III: 1840-1870
Introduction
17. Political and Administrative Reform, 1840-1860
18. Reorientation: British North America and the Empire after 1840
19. Reorientation: British North America and the Continent after 1840
20. The West and the North, 1821-1868
21. Early Victorian Society, 1840-1870
22. Early Victorian Culture, 1840-1870
23. Industrialization, 1850-1870
24. Unification, 1862-1867
Writing about the Canadian Fur Trade
PART IV: 1867-1885
Introduction
25. The Completion of Confederation, 1867-1873
26. Envisioning the New Nation, 1867-1885
Writing about Confederation
Notes
Index