9780195411379

Ontario

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The image on the cover suggests many of the most prominent themes in Ontario's history: the landscape, natural resources, commercial activity, the railways that played such a central part in Confederation, the border that represents both separation from and links to the United States. What is not visible in the image is the human diversity that today may well be the province's most distinctive feature. In 1870, of course, such diversity would have been unimaginable to Ontarians, the majority of whom traced their roots to the British Isles. Nevertheless, as Peter Baskerville points out, Ontario was never the homogeneous entity that many Canadians have imagined. Thousands of years before the creation of the political unit that we know as Ontario, the land itself was sharply divided between north and south. That division was reflected in the complex relations that existed between the Iroquoian peoples of the south and the Algonkian peoples of the north--relations that in many ways prefigured the patterns of social and economic interaction that evolved following the arrival of the first European settlers. Ontario: Image, Identity, and Power is generously illustrated with roughly 150 paintings, drawings, and photographs that shed their own light on Ontario's social, economic, and political evolution.

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9780195411379

ISBN-10

0195411374

Weight

1.25 Pounds

Dimensions

7.00 x 0.75 x 9.00 In

List Price

$22.00

Format

-

Language

English

Pages

248 pages

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published On

2002-10-24



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