Download or read book Colonial Reformers and Canada 1830 1849 written by Peter Burroughs and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1969-01-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During these years of rebellion and political crisis in Canada, the traditional political and economic bases of Britain's colonial system were being revised with the coming of free trade and the acceptance of responsible government. This collection of documents presents the views of a small, influential group of Englishmen on Canadian questions and imperial relations.

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Download or read book The Colonial Reformers and Canada 1830 1849 Selections From Documents and Publications of the Times Edited and With an Introd by Peter Burroughs written by Peter Burroughs (Ed) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Colonial Reformers and Canada 1830 1849 Selections from Documents and Publications of the Times Edited and with an Introduction by Peter Burroughs written by Peter Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Accounting for Genocide written by Dean Neu and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-27T00:00:00Z with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting for Genocide is an original and controversial book that retells the history of the subjugation and ongoing economic marginalization of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. Its authors demonstrate the ways in which successive Canadian governments have combined accounting techniques and economic rationalizations with bureaucratic mechanisms–soft technologies–to deprive Native peoples of their land and natural resources and to control the minutiae of their daily economic and social lives. Particularly shocking is the evidence that federal and provincial governments are today still prepared to use legislative and fiscal devices in order to facilitate the continuing exploitation and damage of Indigenous people’s lands.

Download or read book A Few Acres of Snow written by Thomas Thorner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Few Acres of Snow allows readers to experience early Canadian history in the words of those who first explored, created, and documented the nation. Providing coast-to-coast representation and featuring a diverse range of social groups, the editors offer a refreshing look at the major events leading up to and including Confederation. Throughout, they rely on a careful selection of personal, formal, and legal documents to tell the story, including early travel narratives, literary writings by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail, government reports on slavery in Canada, official letters on Irish immigration, and newspaper articles and speeches on the creation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867. In this trim new edition, each document is introduced with biographical information about the creator. Brand new chapters discuss the Loyalists in Nova Scotia, the War of 1812, and the Beothuk. Also new is a guide to critically reading and engaging with historical documents.

Download or read book Canadian Founding written by Janet Ajzenstat and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments offered superior protection for individual rights, the confederates insisted that the union's general legislature, the Parliament of Canada, would prove equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British North America together as a free nation.

Download or read book Lord Durham s Report written by Gerald M. Craig and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-12-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his famous 1839 call to reform, John George Lambton, Earl of Durham, recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be accorded responsible government by uniting the two provinces under a single legislative assembly - a union which would also bring about the assimilation of the French-Canadians. The Report has been criticized ever since - from British imperialists who found it dangerously liberal to French Canadians who despised Durham for his presumed racism. This new edition of Gerald Craig's abridgement retains his 1963 introduction and adds essays that debate Durham's political assumptions and goals, re-examine the philosophical and historical context in which the Report was created, and review the Report's reception and influence. Janet Ajzenstat reconsiders the report in the context of nineteenth-century debates about the relation between culture and political institutions, arguing that Durham should be seen as a progressive universalist opposed to the divisions of race and creed who wanted to give more freedom to French- and English-Canadians alike. Guy Laforest re-examines the report in terms of British liberal imperialism and twentieth-century English-Canadian perspectives to argue that Durham was a one-sided sociologist and the first in long line who used liberalism for imperialist purposes.

Download or read book Why Did We Choose to Industrialize written by Robert C.H. Sweeny and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The choice to industrialize has changed the world more than any other decision in human history. And yet the three prevailing explanations - the technical (new energy sources), the Marxist (new social relations), and the neo-liberal (people became more industrious) - are inadequate in making sense of this fundamental change. In mid-nineteenth-century Montreal, as in other early industrializing societies, change occurred as a result of the choices people made when faced with unprecedented opportunities and constraints. Montreal was the first colonial city to industrialize. Its overlapping French and English legal traditions mean that people's actions were exceptionally well documented for a North American city. Robert Sweeny’s novel reading of sources like city directories, ordinance surveys, monetary protests, and apprenticeship contracts leads him to develop important critiques of both mainstream and progressive historiography. He shows how the choice to industrialize was tied to the development of completely new ways of thinking about the world on three inter-related levels: how should we relate to each other, to property, and to nature? In Montreal, as in all the other early industrializing societies, thought preceded action. Sweeny illuminates the personal and familial decisions that tens of thousands of people made by the mid-nineteenth century which already prefigured much of what industrialized Montreal would look like in 1880. At a moment when global conflict is tied to resources and climate change, Sweeny shows how fundamental decision making can determine widespread social change. Informed by four decades of scholarship, Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Is a politically engaged argument about history, a sustained reflection on sources and method in historical practice, and a singular vantage point on the ideas that have shaped historical understandings of industrialization.

Download or read book The Race Question In Canada written by Andre Siegfried and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1966-01-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written about the Canada of Laurier's day, Siegfried's book is a witty and sophisticated report on the elements in the Canadian dilemma, a profound analysis of Canadian politics, churches, education and attitudes to external affairs.

Download or read book Political Corruption in Canada written by Kenneth Gibbons and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1976-01-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians assume that their politicians and institutions are relatively free of the corruption they associate with other nations. The editors of this volume argue that this questionable supposition is based on scant evidence and very little serious analysis.

Download or read book The Western Interior of Canada written by John Warkentin and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1964-01-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume consists of excerpts from journals, diaries and reports of geographical explorations into the western interior of Canada from the first known journeys of Jens Munck and Luke Foxe up to the scientific surveys undertaken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Download or read book The Courts and the Canadian Constitution written by W.R. Lederman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Political Unrest in Upper Canada 1815 1836 written by Aileen Dunham and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1963-01-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1927, this account of the political struggles of Upper Canada prior to the Rebellion of 1837 remains a classic piece of Canadian historical scholarship.

Download or read book Capital Formation in Canada 1896 1930 written by Kenneth Buckley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1974-01-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through capital formation, the changes of the era are analysed: for instance, the boom in the wheat economy, the growth of the railways and the expansion of cities.