A Short History of Canada
Seventh Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2017
- Category
- General, Post-Confederation (1867-), Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780771060021
- Publish Date
- Aug 2017
- List Price
- $25.00
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Description
A fully updated edition of the Canadian classic.
Most of us know bits and pieces of our history but would like to be more sure of how it all fits together. The trick is to find a history that is so absorbing you will want to read it from beginning to end. With this expanded, seventh edition of A Short History of Canada, readers need look no further.
Desmond Morton, one of Canada's most highly respected historians, is keenly aware of the ways in which our past informs the present, and in one compact and engrossing volume, he pulls off the remarkable feat of bringing it all together -- from the First Nations before the arrival of the Europeans, to Confederation, to Stephen Harper's prime ministership, to Justin Trudeau's victory in the 2015 election. His acute observations on the Diefenbaker era, the effects of the post-war influx of immigrants, the Trudeau years and the constitutional crisis, the Quebec referendum, the rise of the Canadian Alliance, and Canada under Harper's governance, all provide an invaluable background to understanding the way Canada works today and its direction in years to come.
About the author
DESMOND MORTON is professor of history at the University of Toronto and principal of Erindale College. He is the author of ministers and Generals: Politics and the Canadian militia, 1868-1904, A Peculiar Kind of Politics: Canada’s Overseas Ministry in the First World War, A Campaign (with J.L. Granatstein), and numerous other books.
Editorial Reviews
Praise for A Short History of Canada:
• "What extends the attractiveness of A Short History of Canada to the general reader is Morton's capacity as a first-rate storyteller." --Toronto Star
• "Had such a book been available a generation ago, the canard that Canadian history is dull might never have got off the ground." --Montreal Gazette
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