Research Catalog

Title

Sites of power : a concise history of Ontario / Peter A. Baskerville.

Author

Baskerville, Peter A.

Publication

Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

viii, 296 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Diversity - not just of human social characteristics but of landscapes, climates, resources - has been one of Ontario's hallmarks from the beginning. Thus the 'sites of power' in Peter A. Baskerville's title are inevitably matched by sites of resistance, and the dynamics of their interactions are a recurring theme throughout this history. But conflict is only part of the story. From the early Paleolithic period to the Aboriginal peoples' first encounters with Europeans, through settlement and immigration, Confederation, war, economic booms and busts, all the way to the provincial election of 2003, Baskerville combines social, political, economic, and cultural histories in an analysis as complex and multi-layered as the province itself."--Jacket.

Subject

• Power (Social sciences) > Ontario > History
• Ontario > History
• Ontario > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes "Notes" (chiefly bibliographical: p. [255]-288) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Whose Ontario? -- Weblike Relations: Early Ontario, 9000 BC-AD 1500 -- The Transformation of Ontario's Cultural Landscape, 1580-1653 -- Contested Terrain: Cultural Mixing in Early Ontario, 1653-1763 -- The 'Men with Hats': Defining Upper Canada, 1763-91 -- Native Peoples, Nature, and Newcomers: The Making of Rural Upper Canada, 1791-1871 -- Place, Power, and Polity: The Emergence of Upper Canada and the Canadian Confederation, 1791-1867 -- Ontario in the New Dominion, 1867-1905 -- 'A New Order of Things', 1905-23 -- 'The Inequality of Our System': Boom, Bust, and War: 1923-40s -- Modern Ontario: 1940s-2003 -- Population -- Government -- Labour and Industry.

ISBN

0195418921 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2005277836

OCLC

• 57062050
• SCSB-11204232

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library