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Towards the discovery of Canada : selected essays
- Title
- Towards the discovery of Canada : selected essays / Donald Creighton.
- Author
- Creighton, Donald Grant.
- Publication
- Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, [©1972]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F1026 .C767 1972 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 315 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. The craft of history -- History and literature -- Doctrine and interpretation of history -- Towards the discovery of Canada -- The uses and abuses of history -- Pt. II. Commerce and empire -- The commercial class in Canadian politics, 1792-1840 -- The economic background of the rebellions of 1837 -- Economic nationalism and confederation -- The Victorians and the empire -- The decline and fall of the Empire of the St. Lawrence -- Pt. III. Sir John A. Macdonald -- George Brown, Sir John Macdonald, and the "Workingman" -- Macdonald and Canadian historians -- Macdonald and the Anglo-Canadian alliance -- Macdonald, Confederation, and the West -- Pt. IV. Continentalism and biculturalism -- Canada and the Cold War -- The myth of biculturalism -- Canadian Nationalism and its opponents -- Continentalism and the birthright of Canada -- History and the constitution.
- ISBN
- 0770507883
- 9780770507886
- LCCN
- 75308246
- OCLC
- ocm00825443
- 825443
- SCSB-264369
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library