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    Roads to Confederation
    The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2

    Jacqueline D. Krikorian (Edited by), David R. Cameron (Edited by), Marcel Martel (Edited by), Andrew McDougall (Edited by), Robert C. Vipond (Edited by)

    9781487521899

    Paperback / softback, published 12 October 2017

    512 pages
    22.7 x 15.4 x 3 cm, 0.74 kg

    "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)

    "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 (Canadian Historical Review)

    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.

    V From Canada East to Quebec

    1. The French Canadians and the Birth of Confederation
      Jean-Charles Bonenfant
    2. French Canadians and the Founding of Confederation
      Lionel Groulx
    3. The Negation of a Nation: The Quebec Cultural Identity and Canadian Federalism
      Eugénie Brouillet
    4. Canada and Its Aims, According to Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King and Trudeau
      Stéphane Kelly
    5. The French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, 1864-1900
      A.I. Silver

    The East, Ontario and the West

    1. The Life and Times of Confederation, 1864-1867
      P.B. Waite
    2. New Brunswick’s Entrance into Confederation
      George E. Wilson
    3. The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment
      Phillip Buckner
    4. The Maritimes and Confederation
      P.B. Waite
    5. George Brown
      J.M.S. Careless
    6. The West and Confederation
      W. L. Morton
    7. Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900
      Doug Owram

    The Geopolitics of Confederation

    1. 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
    2. British Policy in Canadian Confederation
      Chester Martin
    3. Britain’s Withdrawal from North America, 1864–1871
      C.P. Stacey
    4. The United States and Confederation
      Yves Roby
    5. Seward’s Attempt to Annex British Columbia, 1865-1869
      David E. Shi

    1867: A Formative Event?

    1. Unequal Union: Roots of Crisis in the Canadas, 1815-1873
      Stanley B. Ryerson
    2. On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
      Adele Perry
    3. The Origins of Quebec Society
      Fernand Dumont
    4. The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History
      Ian McKay
    5. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
      James W. Daschuk
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