{"product_id":"questions-of-order-9781487522186","title":"Questions of Order","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happened on 1 July 1867? Over 150 years after Canadian Confederation, it seems like a question with an obvious answer. \u003ci\u003eQuestions of Order\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Confederation was not just a political deal struck by politicians in 1867, but a process of reconfiguring political concepts and the basis of political association.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreaking new ground, \u003ci\u003eQuestions of Order\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions, concerns, and ideas about the future of political order in the British Empire and the world. It traces how for many public writers in English Canada, Confederation became an important basis for reimagining political order in the empire and redefining basic political concepts. To some, it marked a clear step in the larger project of imperial federation or even the ultimate union of the English-speaking world. For others, however, it represented the certain fragmentation of the empire into sovereign national states.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Questions of Order is a nineteenth-century scrapbook of the land we left behind. Price is an enthusiastic chronicler. He guides readers through a time capsule of an era so different from ours Canada Day would be unrecognizable to the Fathers of Confederation.\" -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter *\u003cbr\u003e\"Price delivers admirably. His book is a detailed exploration of how certain individuals (mostly highly educated and articulate) wrote about this new thing called the Dominion of Canada. He does a wonderful job digging into the magazines and books that were published in the decades after Confederation; Questions of Order essentially follows a nineteenth-century version of a scholarly Twitter debate, although, as was fitting for its age, the debate was long and drawn-out.\" -- Christopher Dummitt, Trent University * \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Price has advanced the discussion, producing a focused and readable study of the many ways that English Canadian thinkers struggled with the meaning of Confederation.\" -- Steve Penfold, University of Toronto Press * \u003cem\u003eEarly Canadian History\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments    Introduction: \"A Time of Iconoclasm\": Confederation and Transformations in Political Thought    1. An Age of Nation Making: Nation, State, and the Question of Canada’s Future  2. Cultivating a Constitution: Defining the Legal Foundations of Political Community 3. Making Up the People: Ideas of Common Peoplehood and Citizenship 4. Debating and Declaring Loyalty: The Evolution and Rhetorical Limits of Allegiance 5. Naturalizing Modern Political Association: Naturalization and Nationality Law Reform    Conclusion: \"No Merely Passive Spectator\": Canada in a Modern World    Notes  Bibliography  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409150320983,"sku":"9781487522186","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487522186.jpg?v=1730505652","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/questions-of-order-9781487522186","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}