Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History, Vol. 2 (2nd Edition)

“We hope that students will find these readings both challenging and enlightening. By helping students understand that the past as represented in textbooks is constructed from sources such as the ones published here, we hope to open a window not only on developments in Canada’s past but also on the discipline of history.”

From the editors’ Preface to the Second edition

Offering a variety of historians’ interpretations of events in Canada’s past since 1867, Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History Vol II is a collection of some of the finest scholarly articles, all secondary documents. With these twenty-nine selections, thirteen of which are new to this carefully revised edition, the editors achieve a balanced representation of important social, political and economic topics and events, in all of Canada’s regions.

This reader may be used in conjunction with Conrad and Finkel’s acclaimed two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples or their one- volume synthesis Canada: A National History, or as a supplement to any survey of Canadian history.