Canadian History: Pre-Confederation

Book Description: Canadian History: Pre-Confederation is a survey text that introduces undergraduate students to important themes in North American history to 1867. It provides room for Aboriginal and European agendas and narratives, explores the connections between the territory that coalesces into the shape of modern Canada and the larger continent and world in which it operates, and engages with emergent issues in the field.

1. Dedication

2. About the Book

3. Acknowledgments

4. Author's Notes

5. Preface

6. Chapter 1. When Was Canada?

   1. 1.1 Introduction

   2. 1.2 The Writing of History

   3. 1.3 Making Histories

   4. 1.4 The Current State of Historical Writing in Canada

   5. 1.5 Summary

7. Chapter 2. Aboriginal Canada before Contact

   1. 2.1 Introduction

   2. 2.2 History without Archives

   3. 2.3 The Aboriginal Americas

   4. 2.4 The Millennia before Contact

   5. 2.5 Languages, Cultures, Economies

   6. 2.6 Summary

8. Chapter 3. The Transatlantic Age

   1. 3.1 Introduction

   2. 3.2 Beginnings of Globalism

   3. 3.3 The Seafaring World of the 15th and 16th Centuries

   4. 3.4 England and France in the Age of Discovery

   5. 3.5 The Columbian Age

   6. 3.6 France in the Americas

   7. 3.7 Summary

9. Chapter 4. New France

   1. 4.1 Introduction

   2. 4.2 Acadia

   3. 4.3 Canada, 1608-1663

   4. 4.4 Wendake/Huronia and the Fur Trade

   5. 4.5 The Heroic Age of New France

   6. 4.6 Canada, 1663-1763

   7. 4.7 Canada and Catholicism

   8. 4.8 Louisiana and the Pays d'en Haut

   9. 4.9 War in the Pays d'en Haut

   10. 4.10 Summary

10. Chapter 5. Aboriginal Canada in the Era of Contact

    1. 5.1 Introduction

    2. 5.2 The Columbian Exchange

    3. 5.3 The Widowed Land

    4. 5.4 Strategic Encounters

    5. 5.5 Strategic Alliances

    6. 5.6 Belief and Culture: The Wendat Experience

    7. 5.7 The Five Nations: War, Population, and Diplomacy

    8. 5.8 Summary

11. Chapter 6. Intercolonial Rivalries, Imperial Ambitions, and the Conquest

    1. 6.1 Introduction

    2. 6.2 The British Colonies, ca.1600-1700

    3. 6.3 Competing Mercantile Economies

    4. 6.4 International Fisheries

    5. 6.5 The Plantation Colonies

    6. 6.6 Contrasting Farming Frontiers

    7. 6.7 Triangular Trade

    8. 6.8 The Fur Trade in Global Perspective

    9. 6.9 Colonial Conflict to 1713

    10. 6.10 Acadia 1713-1755

    11. 6.11 The Seven Years' War

    12. 6.12 Summary

12. Chapter 7. British North America at Peace and at War (1763-1818)

    1. 7.1 Introduction

    2. 7.2 Pyrrhic Victories

    3. 7.3 Government

    4. 7.4 Revolutionary British America

    5. 7.5 Interwar Years: The Atlantic Colonies

    6. 7.6 Interwar Years: The Canadas

    7. 7.7 Slavery

    8. 7.8 The War of 1812

    9. 7.9 Summary

13. Chapter 8. Rupert's Land and the Northern Plains, 1690-1870

    1. 8.1 Introduction

    2. 8.2 Northerners

    3. 8.3 Intrusions during the 17th Century

    4. 8.4 Commerce, Collusion, and Conflict in the 18th Century

    5. 8.5 The Montrealers versus the HBC

    6. 8.6 Fur Trade Wars

    7. 8.7 Cultural Change on the Plains

    8. 8.8 Fur Trade Society and the Métis

    9. 8.9 Community and Crisis at Red River

    10. 8.10 The New HBC and the New Nation to 1860

    11. 8.11 Environmental Apocaplyse

    12. 8.12 Summary

14. Chapter 9. Economic Transformation and Continuity, 1818-1860s

    1. 9.1 Introduction

    2. 9.2 The Dismal Science

    3. 9.3 British North America between the Wars

    4. 9.4 The Lower Canadian Economy

    5. 9.5 Building the Wheat Economy in Upper Canada

    6. 9.6 The Atlantic Colonies

    7. 9.7 The Canal Era

    8. 9.8 Economic and Social Change

    9. 9.9 Manufacturing, Railways, and Industry: Early Days

    10. 9.10 Reciprocity and Free Trade

    11. 9.11 Summary

15. Chapter 10. Societies of British North America to 1860

    1. 10.1 Introduction

    2. 10.2 Demographics

    3. 10.3 Immigration

    4. 10.4 Country Life

    5. 10.5 City Life

    6. 10.6 Social Classes

    7. 10.7 Gender Roles

    8. 10.8 Race and Racism

    9. 10.9 Education

    10. 10.10 Leisure and Recreation

    11. 10.11 Summary

16. Chapter 11. Politics to 1860

    1. 11.1 Introduction

    2. 11.2 Politics 1818-1860

    3. 11.3 Upper and Lower Canada

    4. 11.4 The Tory Oligarchy

    5. 11.5 Ultramontanism and Secularism

    6. 11.6 Republicanism in Canada

    7. 11.7 The Press

    8. 11.8 Labour and Its Discontents

    9. 11.9 Early Reformism and Reformers

    10. 11.10 Rebellions, 1837-38

    11. 11.11 Durham and Union

    12. 11.12 Responsible Government

    13. 11.13 Seats of Government

    14. 11.14 The 1850s

    15. 11.15 Aboriginal Politics at Mid-Century

    16. 11.16 Summary

17. Chapter 12. Children and Childhood

    1. 12.1 Introduction

    2. 12.2 Childhood in a Dangerous Time

    3. 12.3 Childhood in New France and Lower Canada

    4. 12.4 Childhood in the West

    5. 12.5 Children at Work

    6. 12.6 Childhood under Attack

    7. 12.7 Children as Historic Actors

    8. 12.8 Summary

18. Chapter 13. The Farthest West

    1. 13.1 Introduction

    2. 13.2 Aboriginal Societies in the 18th Century

    3. 13.3 Fur Trade and Empires

    4. 13.4 The Canadian Cordillera

    5. 13.5 Aboriginal Traders

    6. 13.6 Boundary Disputes and Manifest Destiny

    7. 13.7 Identity Crisis

    8. 13.8 The Island Colony

    9. 13.9 The Gold Colony

    10. 13.10 A Shrinking Aboriginal Landscape in the 1860s

    11. 13.11 Summary

19. Chapter 14. The 1860s: Confederation and Its Discontents

    1. 14.1 Introduction

    2. 14.2 Considering Confederation

    3. 14.3 Confederation as a Cure-All

    4. 14.4 Crafting a Constitution

    5. 14.5 Atlantic Canada and Confederation

    6. 14.6 Canada and the West

    7. 14.7 On the Brink of Industrialization

    8. 14.8 Summary

20. Appendix - Glossary

21. About the Author and Contributors

22. Versioning History