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Plusieurs croient que le 1er juillet 1867 represente la date de la
Confederation canadienne, le jour de la creation du nouveau pays.
Mais le processus ne faisait que s'amorcer en 1867. Du petit
dominion aux frontiAres restreintes, le pays est devenu une
federation beaucoup plus grande, avec dix provinces, trois
territoires, et des centaines de communautes autochtones. Les
politiciens ont longtemps debattu le concept de pays; ils ont bien
pese les avantages et les inconvenients d'une adhesion A la
Confederation canadienne. La Confederation, 1864-1999 regroupe
plusieurs historiens influents du Canada qui etudient comment les
provinces, les territoires, ainsi que les regions sujettes aux
Traites ont pris leurs formes actuelles. En partenariat avec Les
Debats de la Confederation, un projet de production participative
non-partisan et sans but lucratif visant A numeriser les documents
fondateurs du Canada, ce livre innove; il integre les traites entre
les peuples autochtones et la Couronne pour mettre en lumiere la
creation et l'expansion de la Confederation canadienne. Ce faisant,
le livre revele l'histoire tumultueuse, complexe et evolutive de
chaque province et territoire.
July 1st 1867 is celebrated as Canada's Confederation - the date
that Canada became a country. But 1867 was only the beginning. As
the country grew from a small dominion to a vast federation
encompassing ten provinces, three territories, and hundreds of
First Nations, its leaders repeatedly debated Canada's purpose, and
the benefits and drawbacks of the choice to be Canadian.
Reconsidering Confederation brings together Canada's leading
historians to explore how the provinces, territories, and Treaty
areas became the political frameworks we know today. In partnership
with The Confederation Debates, an ongoing crowdsourced,
non-partisan, and non-profit initiative to digitize all of Canada's
founding colonial and federal records, this book breaks new ground
by integrating the treaties between Indigenous peoples and the
Crown into our understanding of Confederation. Rigorously
researched and eminently readable, this book traces the unique
paths that each province and territory took on their journey to
Confederation. It shows the roots of regional and cultural
grievances, as vital and controversial in early debates as they are
today. Reconsidering Confederation tells the sometimes rocky,
complex, and ongoing story of how Canada has become Canada.
Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations - Paris, Nice,
Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London - reinforce how
governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for
understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what
does 'expertise' mean in this new era? This book answers that
question? The volume is about a particular kind of expert - a type
suffering from 'bad press' for a long time - namely, scholars who
carry out area-based research. The term 'expert' itself even comes
in for some humor about how it might be defined - someone who knows
more and more, about less and less, until eventually they know
everything about nothing. Behind the old joke is a grain of truth:
Expert standing becomes unimpressive to us, in both intellectual
and practical terms, when it is seen as parochial and lacking in
vision. This volume will explore Area Studies (AS), a prominent
type of expertise, along a range of dimensions. As we move towards
the third decade in the new millennium, attention shifts to the
somewhat unexpectedly positive future of New Area Studies (NAS) as
a resurgent intellectual movement. NAS has departed from what the
editors have dubbed Traditional Area Studies (TAS) - commonplace
till the millennium. Both the editors of this volume, and its
contributors, are leading scholars in area-based work across
continents. Together they have participated and observed as
area-oriented research struggled to overcome protracted and intense
criticism since the Cold War. Thus, the volume marks the resurgence
of area-based research in its new guise as NAS - the crux -
understanding increasing complexity around a shrinking globe. Taken
together, the contents of this volume make the the case for a New
Area Studies grounded in necessary travel, using new and wider
methodologies involving reflective practice and production of
knowledge with local people. It argues the necessity of such broad
and deep approaches in order to appreciate what is going on in the
world in the 21st century and to help us see off the arrival of
more and increasingly nasty unpredictable shocks.
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