Remaking North American Sovereignty

Remaking North American Sovereignty
Author: Jewel L. Spangler
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0823288471

North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North America from a patchwork of contested polities. Remaking North American Sovereignty brings together distinguished experts on the histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United States to re-evaluate this era of political transformation in light of the global turn in nineteenth-century historiography. They uncover the continental dimensions of the 1860s crisis that have been obscured by historical traditions that confine these conflicts within its national framework.

Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865

Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865
Author: P.B. Waite
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773576037

In The Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865, John A. Macdonald presses for the advantages of a strong central power; Alexander Galt puts forward the economic arguments for union; and critics of confederation, Christopher Dunkin and A.A. Dorion, express their misgivings with prophetic insight.

Protecting Canadian Democracy

Protecting Canadian Democracy
Author: Canadian Centre for Management Development
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2003
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780773526198

This first in-depth analysis of Canada's Senate in 40 years.

The Quebec Conference of 1864

The Quebec Conference of 1864
Author: Eugénie Brouillet
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773556052

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 Conference of 1864 expresses a renewed historical interest over the last two decades in both the Quebec-Canada constitutional trajectory and the study of federalism. Contributors from a variety of disciplines argue that a more grounded understanding of the 72 Quebec Resolutions of 1864 is key to interpreting the internal architecture of the contemporary constitutional apparatus in Canada, and a new interpretation is crucial to appraise the progress made over the 150 years since the institution of federalism. The second volume in a series that began with The Constitutions That Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions, this book reveals a society in constant transition, as well as the presence of national projects that live in tension with the Canadian federation.

Reforming Senates

Reforming Senates
Author: Nikolaj Bijleveld
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000706672

This new study of senates in small powers across the North Atlantic shows that the establishment and the reform of these upper legislative houses have followed remarkably parallel trajectories. Senate reforms emerged in the wake of deep political crises within the North Atlantic world and were influenced by the comparatively weak positions of small powers. Reformers responded to crises and constantly looked beyond borders and oceans for inspiration to keep their senates relevant. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429323119, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.