Canada's First Century

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-544922-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Award-winning author Donald Creighton was a Red Ensign nationalist and firm supporter of the British Empire. At the time of writing this book, in 1976, he had come to believe that Canada was a lost cause. When everyone else was celebrating Canada's centennial, he was busy writing his own lament for a nation. Canada's First Century paints a large and complex canvas of historical rise and fall: a great transcontinental nation is built, but it is eventually undone as Canada turns its back on the British Empire and embraces a continental role alongside the United States. A courageous and contentious book for its day-Creighton is intensely anti-American and highly critical of Quebec nationalism-it was met with criticism, but, as Donald Wright points out, Canada's First Century initially outsold Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and, for a time, even the Bible.

A beautifully written, in-depth introduction by Donald Wright explores Creighton's larger understanding of Canadian history, his preoccupation with Canada's role in the Empire, and his major contribution to economics and geography as a key feature of history.

Zielgruppe

The primary market for Canada's First Century is students of Canadian history, researchers interested in Canadian historiography, and general readers in the trade.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Creighton (Deceased), Donald

Wright, Donald

Creighton, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction to the Wynford Edition

- List of Illustrations

- 1: Confederation and Expansion

- 2: National Decisions

- 3: Time of Troubles

- 4: A Nation on Trial

- 5: The End of Colonial Security

- 6: The Consequences of Success

- 7: The Great Divide

- 8: Unrest and Dissent

- 9: The Mackenzie King Millennium

- 10: The Crash

- 11: The Politics of Evasion

- 12: The Return to Colonial Status

- 13: The Rule of the Professionals

- 14: Point of No Return

- 15: Obscure Destiny

- Epilogue: Ottawa, 1967

- Books for Further Reading

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Creighton, Donald
Donald Creighton (1902-1979) was English Canada's leading historian. A member of the University of Toronto's Department of History, Creighton wrote a dozen books including The Commercial Empire of the St Lawrence, the two-volume biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, and The Road to Confederation. For his outstanding contributions to Canada's intellectual life, he received many awards and honours, including the Tyrrell Medal, the Governor General's Award, the Molson Prize, and honorary degrees from universities across the country. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Companion of the Order of Canada.