The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History

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Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. A number of the themes Vital to nowadays’s historians, notably those in terms of social class, gender, and ethnicity, have been fully developed only since 1970. Vital advances have been made in our understanding of regional economic developments and their implications for social, cultural, and political life.

This book is intended to fill the need for an up-to-date overview of emerging regional themes and issues. Each and every of the sixteen chapters, written by a distinguished scholar, covers a specific chronological period and has been carefully integrated into the whole. The history begins with the evolution of Native cultures and the have an effect on of the arrival of Europeans on those cultures, and continues to the formation of Confederation. The goal has been to provide a synthesis that not only accommodates the most up to date scholarship but is accessible to the general reader. The book re-assesses many old themes from a new point of view, and seeks to broaden the point of interest of regional history to include those groups whom the traditional historiography ignored or marginalized.

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