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Language issues have always been subject to debate in Canada. From
the Conquest to the Quiet Revolution to the crisis of Regulation 17
to the various judgments of the Supreme Court, these often virulent
debates have mobilized citizens?deeply concerned about recognition
of their language and their rights?in the street, the media, or the
courts. The state has responded with commissions of inquiry,
legislation and legal action, and even police surveillance of
citizens.
"Speaking Up" captures the complex and fascinating history of the
relationship between language and politics in Canada and Quebec
from 1539 to the present. Nuanced and unbiased yet empathetic, the
book reveals that the language issue has been at the heart of this
country's political life for centuries.
Translated from the multiple-award-winning "Langue et politique au
Canada et au Qu?bec" (Bor?al, 2010).
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.
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.
In recognition of Canada's sesquicentennial, this two-volume set
brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation
into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the
"classic" studies about the people, ideas, and events associated
with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also
scholarly works that capture the complexities of the Confederation
project. This ambitious anthology challenges the notion that there
exists one dominant narrative underpinning 1867, and includes
research that focuses on Indigenous peoples. Seven articles written
in French are translated for the first time for publication in this
collection. In the first volume of this anthology, Roads to
Confederation introduces readers to the competing approaches to the
study of Confederation and provides material that considers the
nature of the 1867 project from the perspective of peoples and
communities who have been traditionally excluded from the
literature. It also includes the definitive scholarship on the
ideational underpinnings of the making of Canada as well as several
leading articles that set out different ways to understand the
nature and purpose of the 1867 agreement.
Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17
scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada's
Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others
understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in
British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacks a range of
viewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British
colonies, and Indigenous peoples. Exploring perspectives from the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Latin America, New Zealand, and
the Vatican, among others, as well as considering the impact of
Confederation on the rights of Indigenous peoples during this
period, the contributors to this collection present how Canada's
Confederation captured the imaginations of people around the world
in the 1860s. Globalizing Confederation reveals how some viewed the
1867 changes to Canada as part of a reorganization of the British
Empire, while others contextualized it in the literature on
colonization more broadly, while still others framed the event as
part of a re-alignment or power shift among the Spanish, French and
British empires. While many people showed interest in the
Confederation debates, others, such as South Africa and the West
Indies, expressed little interest in the establishment of Canada
until it had profound effects on their corners of the global
political landscape.
A Rare Bird on the Earth: Essays in Honour of Ramsay Cook grew out of an Ottawa conference in the fall of 1997, which was organized by two of his former PhD students, Michael Behiels and Marcel Martel. The essayists are all former PhD students of Professor Cook's, and their work reflects the range of Cook's scholarly interest as well as the transformation of the historical profession in Canada following the growth of graduate history programmes in the late 1960s. This collection is both a tribute to Ramsay Cook and a testimony to the maturation of Canadian historiography.
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