Research Catalog

Title

Ontario : image, identity, and power / Peter A. Baskerville.

Author

Baskerville, Peter A.

Publication

Don Mills, Ont. : New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Description

vi, 250 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The image on the cover of this volume suggests many of the most common themes in Ontario's history: the landscape, natural resources, commercial activity, the railways that played such a central part in Confederation, the border that represents both separation from and links to the United States. It also omits much of the human conflict and human diversity that marks the province's past. As Peter Baskerville points out, Ontario was never the uniform entity that many Canadians have imagined. For example, the sharp physical division between north and south was reflected in the complex relations that existed between the Iroquoian peoples of the south and the Algonkian peoples of the north long before the first European settlers arrived." "Ontario: Image, Identity, and Power is generously illustrated with some 150 paintings, drawings, and photographs that shed their own light on Ontario's social, economic, and political evolution."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Illustrated history of Canada

Uniform Title

Illustrated history of Canada.

Subject

• Ontario > History
• Ontario > History
• Ontario > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Change and exchange: 9000 BCE-1500 CE -- Cultural transformation: 1580-1653 -- Contested terrain and cultural mixing: 1653-1763 -- The 'men with hats': 1763-1791 -- Rural life: 1791-1871 -- Towards a Canadian polity: 1791-1867 -- Ontario in the New Dominion: 1867-1905 -- The making of industrial Ontario: 1905-1923 -- Boom, Bust, and War: 1923-1943 -- Modern Ontario: 1945-2000.

ISBN

0195411374 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002726878

OCLC

• 50109130
• SCSB-11101613

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library