Pelican History of Canada, The

Harmondsworth Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd, 1975. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. a Pelican Original. CONTENTS: 1. The Land and its Resources 2. The Imperial Dream of New France 3. The Struggle for the Continent 4. Default or Decision? 5. The Age of the French Revolution 6. Oligarchs and Democrats 7. Aristocrats of Reform 8. Problems of Destiny 9. "One Dominion under the name of Canada" 10. Pragmatism and Diplomacy 11. The Politics of Purity 12. The Iron Spike and the Regina Scaffold 13. The Wheat Boom and Laurier Nationalism 14. Empire, Race and War 15. Whose Empire, Whose Nation? 16. Prosperity and Depression 17. "Parliament will decide" 18. Postwar Patterns 19. The Canadian Question; Maps; Further reading; Index. SYNOPSIS: Canadian history, for non-Canadians, all too often means two events: Wolfe's dramatic seizure of Quebec in 1759, and the 1867 Canada Act. Yet Canada has had as rich a history as her North American neighbour. This original study traces Canadian history from the earliest European expeditions in search of fish and fur right up to the brink of the 1970s and the premiership of Pierre Trudeau. Although both countries have been shaped by immigration and by the frontier, Canada and the United States have developed in markedly different directions. One of Professor McNaught's achievements in this book is to isolate those characteristics which are distinctively Canadian and to show how they have evolved historically. This involves a study of Canadian geography and an analysis of the stresses on Canadian federalism: notably the continental pull of the U.S., and the religious and regional divisions between the French-speaking minority and the British. The effects of these stresses, in political conflict, constitutional experiment and economic expansion, are the main subjects of this book. Kenneth McNaught, M.A., Ph.D., was born in Toronto in 1918, was educated at Upper Canada College, and graduated at the University of Toronto in 1941. He has taught at various universities in Canada and is currently in the history department at the University of Toronto. He has been editor of Canadian Studies in History and Government (for the Social Science Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto Press; 1959-66) and contributing editor of Saturday Night (1959-68), to which he contributed about 100 articles. Once on the editorial board of Christian Outlook (Montreal; 1961-5) and Canadian Welfare (1961-5), he has also been chairman for the C.B.C. Roundtable TV panel (Winnipeg, 1953-7), and chairman for the University League for Social Reform (1964-5). Kenneth McNaught, who has done some public affairs broadcasting on C.B.C. radio and TV, has contributed to various journals and reviews and is the author of the following books: A Prophet in Politics (1959), A Source-Book of Canadian History (1959; with J. H. S. Reid and H. S. Crowe), Canada and the United States (1963; with R. Cook), Manifest Destiny: A Short History of the United States (1965), The Winnipeg General Strike (1969). In preparation at the moment are The Nature of Progressivism, and The Left in Britain and America.. Second Edition 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by Nelson Christmas. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.