Roads to Confederation
The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2
Published on 12. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-1-4875-2189-9 (ISBN)
Description
Roads to Confederation surveys the way in which scholars from different disciplines, writing in different periods, viewed the Confederation process and the making of Canada. Recognizing that Confederation has been traditionally defined as a process affecting only British North America's Anglophone and Francophone communities, Roads to Confederation offers a broader approach to the making of Canada, and includes scholarship written over 145 years.
Volume 2 of this collection focuses on three major themes. It presents research from the perspective of Canada's regions, with one chapter focusing exclusively on the competing understandings of 1867 from the perspective of Quebec. Next, it includes material pertaining to the geopolitical underpinnings of 1867 that addresses the relationship between Confederation, the U.S. Civil War and American expansionism, Great Britain and war in the European theatre. Also included is leading scholarship by Stanley B. Ryerson, Adele Perry, Fernand Dumond, Ian McKay and James W. Daschuk that questions whether Confederation itself was a formative event. Together with its companion volume, this is an invaluable resource for those who wish to deepen their understanding of the historical foundations on which Canada rests.
Volume 2 of this collection focuses on three major themes. It presents research from the perspective of Canada's regions, with one chapter focusing exclusively on the competing understandings of 1867 from the perspective of Quebec. Next, it includes material pertaining to the geopolitical underpinnings of 1867 that addresses the relationship between Confederation, the U.S. Civil War and American expansionism, Great Britain and war in the European theatre. Also included is leading scholarship by Stanley B. Ryerson, Adele Perry, Fernand Dumond, Ian McKay and James W. Daschuk that questions whether Confederation itself was a formative event. Together with its companion volume, this is an invaluable resource for those who wish to deepen their understanding of the historical foundations on which Canada rests.
Reviews / Votes
"The wide range of perspectives will be valuable to students and scholars, particularly in examining the centrality of the Confederation moment and tensions informing Canadian nationalism, or even geopolitical interest that shaped Canada in North America."- Charles Dumais, University of Toronto (Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol 52 no 1, March 2019) "For those of us who teach Confederation, and who often wish we could renovate our classes to better capture the multiplicity of scholarly takes, this distillation of so many important approaches to the topic will be a blessing; Donald Creighton's road to Confederation must now be seen as just one route among many."
- Bradley Miller, University of British Columbia (Canadian Historical Review)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 228 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
762 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-2189-9 (9781487521899)
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Persons
Jacqueline D. Krikorian is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.
David R. Cameron is a professor of Political Science and Special Advisor to the President and Provost at the University of Toronto.
Marcel Martel is a professor and Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History at York University.
Andrew McDougall is an assistant professor of Canadian politics at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Robert C. Vipond is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
David R. Cameron is a professor of Political Science and Special Advisor to the President and Provost at the University of Toronto.
Marcel Martel is a professor and Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History at York University.
Andrew McDougall is an assistant professor of Canadian politics at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
Robert C. Vipond is a professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Content
V From Canada East to Quebec
The French Canadians and the Birth of Confederation
Jean-Charles Bonenfant
French Canadians and the Founding of Confederation
Lionel Groulx
The Negation of a Nation: The Quebec Cultural Identity and Canadian Federalism
Eugenie Brouillet
Canada and Its Aims, According to Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King and Trudeau
Stephane Kelly
The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864-1900
A.I. Silver
The East, Ontario and the West
The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867
P.B. Waite
New Brunswick's Entrance into Confederation
George E. Wilson
The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment
Phillip Buckner
The Maritimes and Confederation
P.B. Waite
George Brown
J.M.S. Careless
The West and Confederation
W. L. Morton
Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900
Doug Owram
The Geopolitics of Confederation
Confederation; or, The Political and Parliamentary History of Canada from the Conference at Quebec, in October, 1864, to the Admission of British Columbia, in July, 1871
John Hamilton Gray
British Policy in Canadian Confederation
Chester Martin
Britain's Withdrawal from North America, 1864-1871
C.P. Stacey
The United States and Confederation
Yves Roby
Seward's Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865-1869
David E. Shi
1867: A Formative Event?
Unequal Union: Roots of Crisis in the Canadas, 1815-1873
Stanley B. Ryerson
On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
Adele Perry
The Origins of Quebec Society
Fernand Dumont
The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History
Ian McKay
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
James W. Daschuk
The French Canadians and the Birth of Confederation
Jean-Charles Bonenfant
French Canadians and the Founding of Confederation
Lionel Groulx
The Negation of a Nation: The Quebec Cultural Identity and Canadian Federalism
Eugenie Brouillet
Canada and Its Aims, According to Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King and Trudeau
Stephane Kelly
The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864-1900
A.I. Silver
The East, Ontario and the West
The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867
P.B. Waite
New Brunswick's Entrance into Confederation
George E. Wilson
The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment
Phillip Buckner
The Maritimes and Confederation
P.B. Waite
George Brown
J.M.S. Careless
The West and Confederation
W. L. Morton
Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900
Doug Owram
The Geopolitics of Confederation
Confederation; or, The Political and Parliamentary History of Canada from the Conference at Quebec, in October, 1864, to the Admission of British Columbia, in July, 1871
John Hamilton Gray
British Policy in Canadian Confederation
Chester Martin
Britain's Withdrawal from North America, 1864-1871
C.P. Stacey
The United States and Confederation
Yves Roby
Seward's Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865-1869
David E. Shi
1867: A Formative Event?
Unequal Union: Roots of Crisis in the Canadas, 1815-1873
Stanley B. Ryerson
On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
Adele Perry
The Origins of Quebec Society
Fernand Dumont
The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History
Ian McKay
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
James W. Daschuk