Sketches of Western Canada 1873-1899
Sketches of Western Canada 1873-1899

Author: George Mercer Dawson

Publisher: Petra Books

Published: 2024-05-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1998321134

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Landscapes, rivers, resources, geology, indigenous peoples.... all these subjects were of interest to geologist-explorer Dawson (1849-1901) as he travelled the prairies, the Rockies, Yukon, British Columbia and beyond. Over 200 of Dawson's sketches from his notebooks at the National Archives and McGill University.

The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910
The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910

Author: Mark V. Wetherington

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781572331686

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This examination of cultural change challenges the conventional view of the Georgia Pine Belt as an unchanging economic backwater. Its postbellum economy evolves from self-sufficiency to being largely dependent upon cotton. Before the Civil War, the Piney Woods easily supported a population of mostly yeomen farmers and livestock herders. After the war, a variety of external forces, spearheaded by Reconstruction-era New South boosters, invaded the region, permanently altering the social, political, and economic landscape in an attempt to create a South with a diversified economy. The first stage in the transformation -- railroad construction and a revival of steamboating -- led to the second stage: sawmilling and turpentining. The harvest of forest products during the 1870s and 1880s created new economic opportunities but left the area dependent upon a single industry that brought deforestation and the decline of the open-range system within a generation.

The Annual Register
The Annual Register

Author: Edmund Burke

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13:

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Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada
Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

Author: Geoffrey J. Matthews

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0802042031

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A distillation of sixty-seven of the best and most important plates from the original three volumes of the bestselling of the Historical Atlas of Canada.

Painting in Canada
Painting in Canada

Author: J. Russell Harper

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780802063076

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Since its first appearance in 1967, Russell Harper's classic study of Canadian painting has been recognized as the outstanding authority on the subject. This edition provides a comprehensive survey, generously illustrated, of three centuries of Canadian painting from its beginnings in the seventeenth century. Through a lively combination of entertaining anecdotes, descriptions of the cultural background, biographical accounts, and critical judgement, the reader comes to know intimately the artists, their paintings, and their environments. Included are 173 reproductions - 45 added since the first addition. They all ow the reader to see representative works from all periods, and provide a visual record of the cultural and social history of Canada.