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- | Nelson Thomson Learning offers a variety of texts that deal with some of the most pertinent topics in Canadian history. Click on a cover image or a title to see text features and a table of contents. For our featured titles—Visions of the Heart, Origins, and Destinies—click on the "Chapter Web Links" button to access an annotated list of sites relevant to the contents of the books. Origins Coming of Age
Origins AVAILABLE SPRING 2000
Origins is a well-written, clearly organized, and richly illustrated text that covers not only Canadian political and economic history, but also social and cultural history in an integrative way. It values and emphasizes the contribution of the four major groups that have constituted the Canadian population: Native peoples, French-speaking Canadians, English-speaking Canadians, and recent immigrants. The text emphasizes regional developments and differences within an integrated national history. Click here for Origins Web Links
Destinies
Building on the success of earlier editions, Destinies has been significantly revised and updated to provide students and professors with the most clearly organized and richly illustrated Canadian history text available. Students will be engaged by the clear, fast-paced narrative and the over 180 maps and illustrations, many of which are new or revised. A discussion of the four major groups that settled Canada—Native peoples, French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians, and recent immigrants—will ensure that students acquire a thorough and balanced knowledge of Canadian political, economic, social, and cultural history. The reorganization of Destinies into thematic sections will enable readers to easily trace themes and major developments in Canadian history. Click here for Destinies
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Heart
Visions of the Heart, a collaborative effort involving Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal academics, offers compelling socio-historical analyses of Native peoples' experiences of and responses to Colonial oppression in Canada. This book invites the reader to enter into critical, visionary dialogue with others who are committed to understanding and realizing the visions of Aboriginal peoples' hearts. Click here for Visions of the Heart Web Links Coming of Age
Coming of Age is a provocative collection of readings that provides the essential background to understanding contemporary Canada. Lively and informative, it is the only reader available to contextualize the major social, cultural, political, and economic issues that have influenced Canada's maturation since World War II. Topics covered are wide-ranging and reflect the book's interdisciplinary approach: immigration and ethnicity, class and cultural identity, gender and family issues, science and health care, federalism and separatism, multiculturalism and aboriginal rights, and the welfare state. This balanced coverage offers a stimulating exploration of the varieties and complexities of contemporary Canadian history.
These respective sets of highly readable articles have been chosen specifically to meet the needs of first and second year students of Canadian history. The variety and quality of the readings ensure stimulating classroom or tutorial discussion. The editors have provided a short introduction to each topic, extensive suggestions for further reading, and a short biography of each article's author. Age of Contention
Age of Contention presents a well-rounded vision of Canada from 19001945, including readings about farm and city life, employment, religion, women, education, newcomers to Canada, law and justice, the Great War, the Depression, and World War II.
Age of Transition introduces students to the major themes and issues in Canadian social history during the nineteenth century. Readings have been selected to provide students with an opportunity to explore a variety of historical methodologies and interpretive frameworks. Students will gain an appreciation of both the main debates in the social history field and the different types of analytical tools and approaches used by social historians. The essays presented in this volume include some well-known classics, as well as some of the most innovative recent research.
A History of the Canadian Economy provides a chronological account of Canada's economic and social development from the time of pre-European settlement to the present. Written by an economist and a historian, the book draws on two sets of literature to tell the story of Canada's economic development. Although the emphasis is firmly on economic history, the book also focusses on the impacting social and political forces.
Canadian Women: A History uses multiple perspectives to describe and interpret the "collective" experiences of women in Canada. Emphasizing women's own articulation of their experiences, this text explores the themes of marriage, family life, work, education, and culture in the lives of Canadian women from the time before European settlement in Canada to the 1990s. Drawing from the latest historical research, as well as diaries, letters, church records, and other archival material, the authors offer new interpretations of history that bring a fresh, rounded humanity to a story that has too often been one-dimensional.
Encompassing a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, Canadian Women: A Reader brings to life current and historical issues that have shaped the lives of Canadian women. The essays within the reader represent a diversity of women from all regions of Canada.
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