A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt: Documents in Post-Confederation Canadian History

by Thomas Thorner

A Country Nourished on Self-Doubt provides coast-to-coast-to-coast representation and features an impressive balance of personal, formal, and legal documents. Four new chapters cover sexual advice in Victorian Canada, treaties of the far north, drugs in the 1920s, and youth in the 1960s. Also, two new features make this edition the most student-friendly to brief notes introducing each document, and a student guide to reading primary sources.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

488 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 2003

Reviews

[Ngan Ha]

No mention of immigrants. No mention of Indigenous. Nor non-white & non-bourgeoise women. What vision of Canada are you trying to project?

[Alyssa]

An excellent collection of primary sources but the blurbs prior to each source are a little lacking. Also the odd source left one confused about whether or not it was the original or if it was an edited copy.