Sean Cadigan

Newfoundland and Labrador

A History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the region from prehistoric times to the present, Newfoundland and Labrador is not only a comprehensive history of the province, but an illuminating portrait of the Atlantic world and European colonisation of the Americas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781487516604
• ISBN-10: 1487516606
• Artikelnr.: 48029356

Autorenporträt

Sean T. Cadigan

Inhaltsangabe

acknowledgments / vii
maps / ix
Introduction: Scarce Environmental Leeway, Nationalism, and theLong
Term in Newfoundland and Labrador / 3
1. The First Peoples by the Sea / 13
2. The European Encounter / 26
3. Migrants and Settlers: The Development of a Fishing Society,1610-1775
/ 45
4. Not Quite a Colony, 1775-1824 / 72
5. A Colonial State, 1824-1855 / 98
6. Responsible Government and Landward Industrialization,1855-1895 / 125
7. Twilight of the National Policy, 1897-1908 / 154
8. The Politics of Hope and Demoralization, 1908-1934 / 176
9. Commission, Depression, and War, 1934-1945 / 209
10. The Land of Milk and Honey, 1946-1972 / 235
11. The Limits of Neo-nationalism, 1972-2003 / 260
Conclusion: Not a Nation / 287
notes / 299
bibliography / 321
index / 345