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History Pre-confederation (to 1867)

The Atlantic Region to Confederation

A History

edited by Phillip Buckner & John Reid

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
May 2017
Category
Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Regional Studies, Historiography, Social History
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487516598
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $54.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487516765
    Publish Date
    Jun 2017
    List Price
    $44.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802069771
    Publish Date
    Jan 1995
    List Price
    $46.95

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Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's historians, notably those relating to social class, gender, and ethnicity, have been fully developed only since 1970. Important advances have been made in our understanding of regional economic developments and their implications for social, cultural, and political life.

This book is intended to fill the need for an up-to-date overview of emerging regional themes and issues. Each of the sixteen chapters, written by a distinguished scholar, covers a specific chronological period and has been carefully integrated into the whole. The history begins with the evolution of Native cultures and the impact of the arrival of Europeans on those cultures, and continues to the formation of Confederation. The goal has been to provide a synthesis that not only incorporates the most recent scholarship but is accessible to the general reader. The book re-assesses many old themes from a new perspective, and seeks to broaden the focus of regional history to include those groups whom the traditional historiography ignored or marginalized.

About the authors

Phillip Buckner is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick and a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London.

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John G. Reid is a professor in the Department of History and a senior fellow at the Gorsebrook Research Institute at Saint Mary's University.

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