02034nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139032407 UkCbUP 20180107143411.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110225s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139032407 (ebook) 9780521761932 (hardback) 9780521744430 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda F1026 .C6868 2012 971 23 Conrad, Margaret, author. A Concise History of Canada / [electronic resource] Margaret Conrad. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Concise Histories Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer and teacher of Canadian history, Conrad offers astute answers to these difficult questions. Beginning in Canada's deep past with the arrival of its Aboriginal peoples, she traces its history through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War and the industrialization of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to its prosperous present. Despite its successes and its popularity as a destination for immigrants from across the world, Canada remains a curiously reluctant player on the international stage. This intelligent, concise and lucid book explains just why that is. Print version: 9780521761932 Cambridge Concise Histories. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139032407 Cambridge Books Online 236435 236435