Margaret R. Conrad and James K. Hiller
Introduction A Region in the Making
Part One: The Atlantic Region, 1500-1860
1. Beginnings
2. Aboriginal Peoples
3. European Encounters, 1000-1598
4. Colonial Experiments, 1598-1632
5. Colonial Communities, 1632-1713
6. Renegotiating the Atlantic Region,
1713-63
7. Community Formation, 1749-1815
8. Maturing Colonial Societies, 1815-60
Part Two: The Atlantic Region Since 1860
9. Confronting Confederation, 1860-1873
10. The Industrial Challenge, 1873-1901
11. The Promise and Peril of a New Century, 1901-19
12.
Between the Wars, 1919-39
13. The Emergence of Atlantic Canada, 1939-49
14. A Region Transformed, 1949-75
15. Atlantic Canada in the Global Village, 1975-2001
16. Whither Tending? Atlantic Canada in the Twenty-First Century
Bibliographic Note
Notes
Index
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Margaret R. Conrad is Professor Emerita at the University of New Brunswick, where she held a Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies from 2002 to 2009. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1995, received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002, the Queen's
Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada (2004). In 2011 she received the Society for Digital Humanities Award for outstanding achievement in computing in the Arts and Humanities. Margaret Conrad has published widely in the fields of Atlantic Canadian History and
Women's Studies.
James K. Hiller is Professor Emeritus in the department of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland. In 2011, he was awarded the Newfoundland Historical Society's Heritage Award. Professor Hiller worked for the Newfoundland Historical Society (NHS), where he
pioneered its publication series and its symposiums. He was also involved with Memorial's Smallwood Centre, served as the editor of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, and was also a member of the Canadian Historical Association's Regional History Committee.
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