J R Miller

Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1991
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780802068699
• ISBN-10: 0802068693
• Artikelnr.: 43857302

Autorenporträt

By J.R. Miller

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Fourth Edition
Note on Terminology
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition
INTRODUCTION
1 Indigenous Peoples and Europeans at the Time of Contact
PART ONE: COOPERATION
2 Early Contacts in the Eastern Woodlands
3 Commercial Partnership and Mutual Benefit
4 Military Allies through a Century of Warfare
PART TWO: COERCION
5 From Alliance to "Irrelevance"
6 Reserves, Residential Schools, and the Threat of Assimilation
7 The Commercial Frontier on the Western Plains
8 Contact, Commerce, and Christianity on the Pacific
9 Resistance in Red River and the Numbered Treaties: "Bounty and
Benevolence"
10 The North-West Rebellion
11 The Policy of the Bible and the Plough
12 Residents and Transients in the North: Relations to the 1960s
PART THREE: CONFRONTATION
13 The Beginnings of Political Organization
14 Land Claims and Self-Government from the White Paper to Guerin
15 Meech, Oka, Charlottetown, Nass, and Ottawa: Relations 1986-2000
PART FOUR: RECONCILIATION?
16 Relations in the Twenty-First Century
17 Do We Learn Anything from History?
Notes
Select Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
Maps
First Nations of Canada
First Nations of northeastern North America at contact
Iroquoia (showing height of land)
The Ohio and Illinois Country, 1754
French possessions in North America, 1750
Effect of the Royal Proclamation of 1763
Location of western nations, 1821
First Nations of British Columbia
The numbered treaties, 1871-1921
North-West Rebellion, 1885