Showing The Penguin History of Canada by Robert Bothwell

Paperback. Pub Date: 09 May 2008 Pages: 432 Publisher: Penguin Global Canada's history Eminent historian Robert Bothwell Argues is more than simply Regional or NATIONAL In some Respects. Canada makes MOST SENSE when viewed the FROM the OUTSIDE in.. And in. The Penguin History of Canada we are invited to do just that. The world has always seen Canada as a terrain for experiment and a land of opportunity. At first Canada's survival and. later. its prosperity depended on links with the world outside - the technologies that drove steamships and trains across oceans and continents; the armies that battled for North America; the furs. wheat. and gold that bought Canada a place in the world's trading system.An uneasy and difficult country. most of Canada's space is uninhabited. and much uninhabitable. It is a country with a huge North but with most of its population in the South. h...