Author: Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Territories
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Correspondence and Papers Connected with Recent Occurences in the Northwest Territories
Author: Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Territories
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwest Territories
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Strange Empire
Author: Joseph Kinsey Howard
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
This is Joseph Kinsey Howard’s last major work. It describes for the first time in detail, the heroic struggle of a primitive people to establish their own empire in the heart of the North American continent. Throughout his lifetime, Joseph Kinsey Howard was absorbed by the fateful dream of these American primitives, the Métis: their fathers, the English, the French, the Scots frontiersmen; their mothers the Native Americans. “The compass of Strange Empire is the history of the resistance put up by people of mixed French and Indian blood and by their cousins, the Plains Indians, to the advance of the Canadian settlement frontier. Mr. Howard’s narrative...is outstanding, not because he has offered much that hitherto was not known about the events, but because of his sensitive delineation of the cultures of the Plainsmen.”—Douglas Kemp, The Beaver “Mr. Howard’s book...is history reflective of his humanity, as it is reflective of his integrity, his scholarship, his depth, his informed respect for language. It will endure as a contribution to historiography. “—A. B. Guthrie, Saturday Review “The author has sacrificed neither fact nor detail in bringing to life events which hitherto have escaped the attention of most historians. Recommended.”—J. E. Brown, Library Journal “A moving and brooding book.”—R. L. Neuberger, New York Times “Vivid and absorbing. This book describes one of the crucial struggles in the long war for the west. It is sound and significant history, written with ardor and skill.”—Walter Havighurst, Chicago Sunday Tribune
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
This is Joseph Kinsey Howard’s last major work. It describes for the first time in detail, the heroic struggle of a primitive people to establish their own empire in the heart of the North American continent. Throughout his lifetime, Joseph Kinsey Howard was absorbed by the fateful dream of these American primitives, the Métis: their fathers, the English, the French, the Scots frontiersmen; their mothers the Native Americans. “The compass of Strange Empire is the history of the resistance put up by people of mixed French and Indian blood and by their cousins, the Plains Indians, to the advance of the Canadian settlement frontier. Mr. Howard’s narrative...is outstanding, not because he has offered much that hitherto was not known about the events, but because of his sensitive delineation of the cultures of the Plainsmen.”—Douglas Kemp, The Beaver “Mr. Howard’s book...is history reflective of his humanity, as it is reflective of his integrity, his scholarship, his depth, his informed respect for language. It will endure as a contribution to historiography. “—A. B. Guthrie, Saturday Review “The author has sacrificed neither fact nor detail in bringing to life events which hitherto have escaped the attention of most historians. Recommended.”—J. E. Brown, Library Journal “A moving and brooding book.”—R. L. Neuberger, New York Times “Vivid and absorbing. This book describes one of the crucial struggles in the long war for the west. It is sound and significant history, written with ardor and skill.”—Walter Havighurst, Chicago Sunday Tribune
The Picky Eagle
Author: Richard W. Maass
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501748769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard W. Maass argues that US ambitions were selective from the start. By presenting twenty-three case studies, Maass examines the decision-making of US leaders facing opportunities to pursue annexation between 1775 and 1898. US presidents, secretaries, and congressmen consistently worried about how absorbing new territories would affect their domestic political influence and their goals for their country. These leaders were particularly sensitive to annexation's domestic costs where xenophobia interacted with their commitment to democracy: rather than grant political representation to a large alien population or subject it to a long-term imperial regime, they regularly avoided both of these perceived bad options by rejecting annexation. As a result, US leaders often declined even profitable opportunities for territorial expansion, and they renounced the practice entirely once no desirable targets remained. In addition to offering an updated history of the foundations of US territorial expansion, The Picky Eagle adds important nuance to previous theories of great-power expansion, with implications for our understanding of US foreign policy and international relations.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501748769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The Picky Eagle explains why the United States stopped annexing territory by focusing on annexation's domestic consequences, both political and normative. It describes how the US rejection of further annexations, despite its rising power, set the stage for twentieth-century efforts to outlaw conquest. In contrast to conventional accounts of a nineteenth-century shift from territorial expansion to commercial expansion, Richard W. Maass argues that US ambitions were selective from the start. By presenting twenty-three case studies, Maass examines the decision-making of US leaders facing opportunities to pursue annexation between 1775 and 1898. US presidents, secretaries, and congressmen consistently worried about how absorbing new territories would affect their domestic political influence and their goals for their country. These leaders were particularly sensitive to annexation's domestic costs where xenophobia interacted with their commitment to democracy: rather than grant political representation to a large alien population or subject it to a long-term imperial regime, they regularly avoided both of these perceived bad options by rejecting annexation. As a result, US leaders often declined even profitable opportunities for territorial expansion, and they renounced the practice entirely once no desirable targets remained. In addition to offering an updated history of the foundations of US territorial expansion, The Picky Eagle adds important nuance to previous theories of great-power expansion, with implications for our understanding of US foreign policy and international relations.
Reporting the Resistance
Author: Alexander Begg
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887559727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view "from the ground" of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba. In 1869 and 1870, Begg and Hargrave were regular correspondents for (respectively) the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Herald. While neither man was a committed supporter of the Metis or Louis Riel, each gives a more complex, and more sympathetic, view of the resistance that is commonly expected from the Anglophone community of Red River. They describe, often from very different perspectives, the events of the resistance, as well as give insider accounts of the social and political background. Largely unreprinted until now, this correspondence remains a relatively untapped resource for contemporary views of the resistance. These are the Red River's own accounts, and are often quite different from the perspective of eastern observers.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887559727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view "from the ground" of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba. In 1869 and 1870, Begg and Hargrave were regular correspondents for (respectively) the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Herald. While neither man was a committed supporter of the Metis or Louis Riel, each gives a more complex, and more sympathetic, view of the resistance that is commonly expected from the Anglophone community of Red River. They describe, often from very different perspectives, the events of the resistance, as well as give insider accounts of the social and political background. Largely unreprinted until now, this correspondence remains a relatively untapped resource for contemporary views of the resistance. These are the Red River's own accounts, and are often quite different from the perspective of eastern observers.
Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953
Author: Ernest Boyce Ingles
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802048257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802048257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Victoria
Author: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Library
Publisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Publisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba
Author: Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba
Publisher:
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Category : Manitoba
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manitoba
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publication
Author: Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manitoba
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Manitoba
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Louis Riel
Author: Ved Parkash Arora
Publisher: Regina, Sask. : Provincial Library, Bibliographic Services
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher: Regina, Sask. : Provincial Library, Bibliographic Services
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Thunder in the North
Author: Robert E. Lamb
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description