{"product_id":"roads-to-confederation-9781487502287","title":"Roads to Confederation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867 Volume 2 includes material that demonstrates the varied perspectives from the provinces and regions of Canada and the viewpoints of officials in Great Britain and the United States and significant works by scholars that question whether Confederation was truly a formative event.\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\u003eV From Canada East to Quebec      The French Canadians and the Birth of Confederation Jean-Charles Bonenfant  French Canadians and the Founding of Confederation Lionel Groulx  The Negation of a Nation: The Quebec Cultural Identity and Canadian Federalism  Eugénie Brouillet  Canada and Its Aims, According to Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King and Trudeau Stéphane Kelly  The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864-1900 A.I. Silver   The East, Ontario and the West      The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867 P.B. Waite  New Brunswick’s Entrance into Confederation George E. Wilson  The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment Phillip Buckner  The Maritimes and Confederation P.B. Waite  George Brown  J.M.S. Careless  The West and Confederation W. L. Morton  Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900 Doug Owram   The Geopolitics of Confederation       Confederation; or, The Political and Parliamentary History of Canada from the Conference at Quebec, in October, 1864, to the Admission of British Columbia, in July, 1871 John Hamilton Gray  British Policy in Canadian Confederation Chester Martin  Britain’s Withdrawal from North America, 1864–1871 C.P. Stacey  The United States and Confederation  Yves Roby  Seward’s Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865-1869 David E. Shi   1867: A Formative Event?       Unequal Union: Roots of Crisis in the Canadas, 1815-1873 Stanley B. Ryerson  On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 Adele Perry  The Origins of Quebec Society Fernand Dumont  The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History Ian McKay  Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life James W. Daschuk","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409138852183,"sku":"9781487502287","price":84.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487502287.jpg?v=1730505581","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/roads-to-confederation-9781487502287","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}