{"product_id":"roads-to-confederation-9781487502270","title":"Roads to Confederation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867 Volume 1 includes material on the competing visions of the nature of the 1867 project, on the ideas underpinning the British North America Act, 1867, and on some of the peoples and communities Confederation scholars have traditionally ignored.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eCanadian Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Introduction: The Study of Confederation   II Other Voices, Other Stories      Concise History of Canada’s First Nations Olive Patricia Dickason and William Newbigging  Displacement and Assimilation Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples  Gender and the Confederation Debates Kathryn McPherson  French Canada and Confederation: The Acadians of New Brunswick Gaétan Migneault   III The Ideas of Confederation      Constitutional Odyssey: Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People? Peter H. Russell  Reference re. Secession of Quebec Supreme Court of Canada  The Canadian Founding, John Locke and Parliament Janet Ajzenstat  Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896 Yvan Lamonde  Federalism as a Way of Life: Reflections on the Canadian Experiment Samuel V. LaSelva  1787 and 1867: The Federal Principle and Canadian Confederation Reconsidered Robert C. Vipond   IV One New Nation, Two Founding Nations or a Compact of Provinces?      Conservatism and National Unity D.G. Creighton  The Genesis of Provincial Rights Norman McL. Rogers  Confederation: A Pact or a Law? Richard Arès  The Nature of Confederation Royal Commission of Inquiry on Constitutional Problems (Tremblay Report)  Quebec and Confederation: Past and Present Ramsay Cook  The Invention of a Myth, The Pact Between Two Founding Peoples Stéphane Paquin","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409138917719,"sku":"9781487502270","price":73.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487502270.jpg?v=1730505581","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/roads-to-confederation-9781487502270","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}