Canadian Civilization
Author: Jacques Dorin
Publisher: Presses Univ. du Mirail
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9782858168880
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Author: Jacques Dorin
Publisher: Presses Univ. du Mirail
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9782858168880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Vallière Wright
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 589
ISBN-13: 1772821446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering the history of First Peoples in Canada from 10,000 to 1000 BC, this volume explores a period which includes the original settlement of the Americas, cultural diversification, technological advances, expanding trade networks, and the development of complex belief systems. A useful reference work for scholars and laypersons alike.
Author: Jean-Luc Pilon
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781442616769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautifully designed, full-colour book presents a collection of 150 archaeological and ethnographic objects produced by Canada's First Peoples - including some that are roughly 12,000 years old - that represent spectacular expressions of creativity and ingenuity.
Author: Robert McGhee
Publisher: [Hull, Quebec] : Canadian Museum of Civilization
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFourteen reconstructions of peoples, events and landscapes based on archaeological excavations carried on across Canada. The places discussed range from the coast of Labrador to the northern Yukon, and from Vancouver Island to the islands of the arctic archipelago.
Author: Elizabeth R. Epperly
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780802044068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors from a wide range of disciplines explore L.M. Montgomery's writing and its relation to Canadian nationalism, including regionalism, canon formation, and Canadian-Amerian cultural relations.
Author: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Publisher: Canadian Museum of History
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780660199153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "ancestors" of the Museum of Civilization and the War Museum began collecting precious objects more than 150 years ago. Now, with some 4,000,000 artifacts and specimens to choose from it is not surprising that the several hundred selected for this book will resonate with many readers. These great objects are a window on our world: the last Red Ensign that flew over Parliament Hill while a fiery debate raged below; the revolver found in the pocket of a man later hanged for the assassination of one of the Fathers of Confederation; a gift that Charles De Gaulle never got; or medals and memorabilia from Canada's military heroes in various theatres of war. Among the artifacts featured are outstanding examples of ethnographic regalia, archaeological specimens, as well as objects fashioned from gold, silver, bronze and ivory that would be standouts in any national collection. All of these come from Canada's largest and most popular museum. The artifacts are beautifully photographed and vividly explained in brief articles. The life work of these two great museums are also described in the introductory narrative.
Author: Louis Balthazar
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 66
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E.A. Heaman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0228012880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColonial Canada changed enormously between the 1760s and the 1860s, the Conquest and Confederation, but the idea of civilization seen to guide those transformations changed still more. A cosmopolitan and optimistic theory of history was written into the founding Canadian constitution as a check on state violence, only to be reversed and undone over the next century. Civilization was hegemony, a contradictory theory of unrestrained power and restraints on that power. Occupying a middle ground between British and American hegemonies, all the different peoples living in Canada felt those contradictions very sharply. Both Britain and America came to despair of bending Canada violently to their will, and new forms of hegemony, a greater reckoning with soft power, emerged in the wake of those failures. E.A. Heaman shows that the view from colonial Canada matters for intellectual and political history. Canada posed serious challenges to the Scottish Enlightenment, the Pax Britannica, American manifest destiny, and the emerging model of the nation-state. David Hume’s theory of history shaped the Canadian imaginary in constitutional documents, much-thumbed histories, and a certain liberal-conservative political and financial orientation. But as settlers flooded across the continent, cosmopolitanism became chauvinism, and the idea of civilization was put to accomplishing plunder and predation on a transcontinental scale. Case studies show crucial moments of conceptual reversal, some broadly representative and some unique to Canada. Dissecting the Seven Years’ War, domestic relations, the fiscal military state, liberal reform, social statistics, democracy, constitutionalism, and scholarly history, Heaman shows how key British and Canadian public figures grappled with the growing gap between theory and practice. By historicizing the concept of civilization, this book connects Enlightenment ideals and anti-colonialism, shown in contest with colonialism in Canada before Confederation.
Author: Christy Vodden
Publisher: Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780660195582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the 1850s, Canada's national museum was little more than a piece of legislation governing the Geological Survey of Canada's small collection of First People's artifacts in Montreal. Despite decades of wars and worldwide economic depression, funding and staff shortages, and a struggle for a permanent home, it has emerged as a renowned human history and cultural institution. This 150th anniversary history profiles the institution as well as the people who tirelessly championed it to ensure a lasting legacy for generations of Canadians."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jean-Luc Pilon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1442626127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA catalogue of a travelling exhibition of 150 archaeological and ethnographic objects owned by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.