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Constant struggle : histories of Canadian democratization /

"Most Canadians assume they live under some form of democracy. Yet confusion about the meaning of the word and the limits of the people's power obscures a deeper understanding. Constant Struggle looks for the democratic impulse in Canada's past to deconstruct how the country became a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mauduit, Julien, 1979- (Editor ), Tunnicliffe, Jennifer (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
Colección:Rethinking Canada in the world ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Search for Canadian Democracy: Transnational Insights into Democratization / Dennis Pilon
  • First Nations, Colonialism, and the Issue of Equality from the Ancien Régime to Contemporary Democracy / Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren
  • Democracy in a Settler State? Settler Colonialism and the Development of Canada, 1820-67 / Angela Tozer
  • "A Terrible Engine in the Hands of the Provincial Administration": The Corporate Franchise State and Joint-Stock Democracy in the Last of the Atlantic Revolutions / Albert Schrauwers
  • Incorporating Contributory Democracy: Self-Taxation and Self-Government in Upper Canada / Jeffrey L. McNairn
  • Conceptualizing Democratic Conservatism in 1850s Canada / E.A. Heaman
  • A Tendency towards Mobocracy? The Democratic Realities of Nineteenth-Century British North America / Colin Grittner
  • Human Rights Activists' Struggles to Forge a More Egalitarian Democracy in Canada in the 1940s and 1950s / Ruth Frager and Carmela Patrias
  • "Will Freedom Survive?": Reconstruction, Self-Disciplined Democracy, and the Stirring of a New Right in Canada, 1943-54 / Will Langford
  • The Real World of Democracy? C.B. Macpherson's Critique of the Cold War Reification of "Liberal Democracy," 1965 / Ian McKay
  • Recognition as Regulation: Liberal Democracy and Sexual Citizenship in Canada / Leonard Halladay
  • Community and Expertise in Canadian Democracy since 1920 / Shirley Tillotson
  • Reckoning with the Realities of History: The Politics of White Supremacy and the Expansion of Settler Democracy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Henry Yu.