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The Quebec Conference of 1864 : understanding the emergence of the Canadian federation /

"Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach. The Quebec Confe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gagnon, Alain (Editor ), Laforest, Guy, 1955- (Editor ), Brouillet, Eugénie, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The fathers of Confederation and the BNA Act : constitutional visions and models / Rachel Chagnon
  • The making of a dominion : the completion of a conquest / Marc Chevrier
  • Canadian constitution-making in the British world / Phillip Buckner
  • Avoiding the "iniquitous pit of liberty" : the centralizing federalism of Joseph-Édouard Cauchon / Éric Bédard
  • The trustee, the financier, and the poet : Cartier, Galt, and D'Arcy McGee / Guy Laforest and Félix Mathieu, Université Laval
  • A big group in a small room : parties and coalitions at the Quebec Conference / Christopher Moore
  • George Brown and Oliver Mowat on the Quebec resolutions and Confederation : reality and myth / Paul Romney
  • Opponents of the 1864 Confederation Project : criticism of the future régime / François Rocher
  • Confederation and corruption : the republican critique of the Quebec resolutions / Louis-Georges Harvey
  • The economic arguments of the Quebec opponents of Confederation / Stéphane Kelly
  • Papineau and the refusal of arrangements (1854-67) / Yvan Lamonde
  • Is rejection of the melting pot a rejection of modernity? / André Burelle
  • The Quebec resolutions and the ideas left behind / Robert C. Vipond, Jacqueline D. Krikorian, and David R. Cameron
  • Principles of the 1864 Quebec Conference, imperial context, and historians Joseph Royal and Alfred Duclos De Celles / Claude Couture
  • Representations of Confederation : research prospects / Anne Trépanier.