A History of the Peoples of Canada by J M Bumsted

A History of the Peoples of Canada by J M Bumsted

This long-awaited history of Canada--the first survey by a single scholar in many years--is the result not only of Bumsted's experience of teaching Canadian history and discussing it with his students over twenty-five years, but also of his assimilation of post-1970s historiography. He has written a highly readable and richly detailed new synthesis for the present time. In this book the first period, 1885 to 1921, highlights the development of imperial sentiment in English-speaking Canada; a great wave of social reform connected chiefly with industrialism; a shift in the nature of Canadian immigration and urbanization; the First World War, which exerted a powerful force on the Canadian economy; and the quest for female equality. The next period, 1921-1945--which includes the Great Depression and the Second World War--is characterized by what Stephen Leacock called the Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice. The war itself brought national sovereignty to Canada and gave birth to the welfare state. The growth and affluence that followed, along with striking changes in lifestyles and headlong developments in the arts, are described for the period 1945-1972. The 1970s to the present, when all the givens of the past--liberalism, centralism, nationalism--were attacked from several directions and began to unravel, are brilliantly surveyed by Bumsted. But his fresh look at this history--in an engaging text, generously illustrated--is both illuminating and inspiring.

J. M. Bumsted (retired) was Professor of History at St John's College, University of Manitoba, for over 30 years.

Len Kuffert is Associate Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. His current work is on radio in English Canada.

Michel Ducharme is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. His current research is focussed on British North American colonies (1749-1873); Canada and the Atlantic World, the history of Quebec; and liberalism and nationalism in Canada and Quebec in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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ISBN 13	9780195409147
ISBN 10	0195409140
Title	A History of the Peoples of Canada
Author	J M Bumsted
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press, Canada
Year published	1992-11-01
Number of pages	597
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