Canada: A Very Short Introduction
(Sprache: Englisch)
A bilingual, multicultural, and multinational nation, Canada borders the United States, reaches into the Arctic, and stretches across six time zones. Drawing on Canadian history, politics, and literature, Donald Wright explores the Canadian story and...
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A bilingual, multicultural, and multinational nation, Canada borders the United States, reaches into the Arctic, and stretches across six time zones. Drawing on Canadian history, politics, and literature, Donald Wright explores the Canadian story and identity, from the arrival of the first Indigenous peoples to contemporary climate politics.
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A bilingual, multicultural, and multinational nation, Canada borders the United States, reaches into the Arctic, and stretches across six time zones. Drawing on Canadian history, politics, and literature, Donald Wright explores the Canadian story and identity, from the arrival of the first Indigenous peoples to contemporary climate politics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Canada: A Very Short Introduction “
List of illustrations; Introduction; 1 Beginnings; 2 Dispossessions; 3 Nationalisms; 4 Rights; 5 Borders; 6 Norths; Conclusion; Further reading; Index
Autoren-Porträt von Donald Wright
A specialist in Canadian history and politics, Donald Wright teaches at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. His books have included The Professionalization of History in English Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2005), which was shortlisted by the Canadian Historical Association for the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best book in Canadian history, and Donald Creighton: A Life in History (University of Toronto Press, 2015). He was also co-editor for Symbols of Canada (Between the Lines Press, 2018) with Michael Dawson and Catherine Gidney.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Donald Wright
- 2020, 160 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 11,4 x 17,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198755244
- ISBN-13: 9780198755241
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
It takes a brave person to write a history of Canada in 109 small pages of text but Donald Wright has made a very good stab at it ... I would happily recommend this thoughtful and elegantly-written survey to anyone looking for a very short history of Canada. Phillip Buckner, British Journal of Canadian Studies
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