J. M. Bumsted
Integrating social, cultural, political, and economic history within a coherent overarching narrative, the first volume of J.M. Bumsted's acclaimed two-volume history examines the evolution of Canada from contact with the earliest European settlers until 1885. Some of the highlights include
pre-contact North American exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries; settlement in the Atlantic provinces; the St. Lawrence Valley and New France; the growth of political changes that brought about confederation of the four provinces of British North America into the Dominion of Canada; and the
expansion of Canada's domain, society, and economy in the 19th century. The highly anticipated third edition of The Peoples of Canada: A Pre-Confederation History is ideal for a single-semester course in Pre-Confederation Canadian history or the first half of a full-year survey course in Canadian
History.
Introduction: Understanding History
Part I: To 1763
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, 1821-1870
21. Early Victorian Society, 1840-1870
22. Early Victorian Culture, 1840-1870
23. Industrialization, 1850-1870 (New!)
24. Unification, 1862-1867 (New!)
Part IV: 1867-1885
Introduction
25. The Completion of Confederation,
1867-1873
26. Envisioning the New Nation, 1867-1885
Notes
Index
Maps
Instructor's Manual
Test Bank
PowerPoint Slides
Student Study Guide
J.M. Bumsted is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. Before his arrival on the Prairies, he taught at both Simon Fraser University and McMaster University. His research specialties include the history of Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, and cultural history. Professor Bumsted is
also the author of The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History, 3/e, and A History of the Canadian Peoples.
A Concise History of Canada's First Nations - Olive Patricia Dickason and adapted by Moira Calder
Rethinking Canada - Edited by Mona Gleason and Adele Perry
Home, Work, and Play - James Opp and John C. Walsh
Native Peoples - Edited by R. Bruce Morrison and C. Roderick Wilson
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
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