Promise of Eden : : The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900 /

Promise of Eden : : The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900 / / Doug Owram.

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Through the last half of the nineteenth century, numbers of Canadians began to regard the West as a land of ideal opportuniy for large-scale agricultural settlement. This belief, in turn, led Canada to insist on ownership of the region and on immediate development.Underlying the expansionist movemen...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Owram, Doug,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1992
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface to the 1992 edition
  • Introduction
  • 1. A far and distant corner of the Empire: the image of Rupert's Land before 1850
  • 2. New worlds to conquer: the opening of the expansionist campaign, 1856-57
  • 3. A means to empire: Canada's reassessment of the West, 1857-69
  • 4. Conspiracy and rebellion: the Red River resistance, 1869-70
  • 5. The geography of empire: the quest for settlers in the 1870s
  • 6. The character of empire: the Britain of the West
  • 7. John Macoun's Eden: the final stage of expansionism, 1878-83
  • 8. Disillusionment: regional discontent in the 1880s
  • 9. The West as past: the foundations of western history
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • A note on sources
  • Index

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