Kategoria BISAC: History >> Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867)

Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.

Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking four central questions: how can we understand the historical roots of Canada's relations with the Third World? How have Canadians, individuals and institutions alike, practiced and...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many early Americans believed that human activity and population growth were essential to moderating the harsh extremes of cold and heat in the New World. In the preindustrial British settler colonies in...

To Canadians of this century the name of Henry Alline is almost unknown. This biography introduces him to the general reader. Through the story of his life it also recreates the early settlement of the Maritime provinces, and examines the origins of one of the most dominant and continuing themes in Canadian life, evangelical pietism.

Henry Alline emigrated from Rhode Island to Nova Scotia with his parents in 1760. Following his religious conversion during adolescence, he became an evangelical preacher and travelled throughout Nova Scotia spreading the gospel. But Alline was more...

• This is the second book in Laxer's North American trilogy.
• James Laxer is an award-winning author of more than twenty-five books, including the #1 national bestseller Tecumseh and Brock: The War of 1812
• Highly readable with accessible language.
• This is one of the few books that talks about key North American history and how it has shaped the continent and the global order even into the present day
• Focusing on three leaders -- Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and John A. Macdonald -- the book showcases how similar these men are in circumstance...