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| Author | : Ged Martin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1972-11-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521085304 |
In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion. Durham's vanity and arrogance made him a poor choice for the post, and he resigned a few months later after the government had been forced to overrule him for exceeding his powers. After his return to Britain he wrote his Report on the Affairs of British North America - and its unauthorized publication in the Times caused a sensation. This report - the famous 'Durham Report' - has been seen as the starting point of the British tradition of colonial self-rule leading through the Statute of Westminster of 1931 to the independent self-governing Commonwealth of today.
| Author | : Ged Martin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Durham, John George Lambton, 1St Earl Of, 1792-1840. Report on the Affairs of British North America |
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| Author | : John George Lambton Earl of Durham |
| Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1912 |
| Genre | : Canada |
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| Author | : Gerald M. Craig |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2006-12-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0773575480 |
In his famous 1839 call to reform, John George Lambton, Earl of Durham, recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be accorded responsible government by uniting the two provinces under a single legislative assembly - a union which would also bring about the assimilation of the French-Canadians. The Report has been criticized ever since - from British imperialists who found it dangerously liberal to French Canadians who despised Durham for his presumed racism. This new edition of Gerald Craig's abridgement retains his 1963 introduction and adds essays that debate Durham's political assumptions and goals, re-examine the philosophical and historical context in which the Report was created, and review the Report's reception and influence. Janet Ajzenstat reconsiders the report in the context of nineteenth-century debates about the relation between culture and political institutions, arguing that Durham should be seen as a progressive universalist opposed to the divisions of race and creed who wanted to give more freedom to French- and English-Canadians alike. Guy Laforest re-examines the report in terms of British liberal imperialism and twentieth-century English-Canadian perspectives to argue that Durham was a one-sided sociologist and the first in long line who used liberalism for imperialist purposes.
| Author | : Philip G. Cerny |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1980-03-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521228633 |
De Gaulle was the first major Western leader to pursue a foreign policy designed consistently to break the vicious circle of the Cold War and the straitjacket of the nuclear balance of terror between Russia and the United States. At the same time, he sought to establish in France a new set of institutions designed to break another vicious circle: that of the divisive conflicts between French social groups and political parties, which led to weak governments and an ineffective state. This book studies the link between these two aims, both by examining de Gaulle's political aims and style in a political and cultural context, and by looking first at French policy towards the Atlantic alliance, and then at the impact of de Gaulle's foreign policy on domestic politics. As a result, many of the orthodox notions about de Gaulle are questioned.
| Author | : Janet Ajzenstat |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1988-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0773561544 |
While the standard interpretation has portrayed Durham as prejudiced and ignorant about French Canada, Ajzenstat shows that, on the contrary, the assimilation proposal follows from Durham's consideration of ways of opening the widest political and economic opportunities for French Canadians. She argues that far from being "racist," as so many historians have suggested, Durham's proposals reflect the tolerance at the heart of liberalism which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, origin, or creed. To illuminate the Report's argument, Ajzenstat draws on Durham's speeches, letters, and dispatches, as well as material on Canada which he consulted before arriving at his final proposals. One of his sources, she argues, was Tocqueville's Democracy in America. She compares Durham's position on political reform in Britain and in the colonies and concludes that his ideas on reform, empire and revolution, political constitutions, nationality, and political culture form a single forceful theory. Ajzenstat suggests that Durham's argument clarifies what she sees as a present dilemma for Canada: that legislation intended to protect cherished minority traditions necessarily erodes liberal rights that those minorities hold equally dear.
| Author | : Richard A. Davies |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2005-12-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1442658088 |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.
| Author | : Paul Scherer |
| Publisher | : Susquehanna University Press |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781575910215 |
"This biography also adds considerable information about Russell's private life, which has not appeared in any previous biography, much of it based in private letters not heretofore used by historians."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Stuart Johnson Reid |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 546 |
| Release | : 1906 |
| Genre | : Canada |
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| Author | : George Boyce |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 1999-09-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 134927755X |
This book combines an analysis of the ideas and policies that governed the British experience of decolonization. It shows how the British, perhaps more correctly the English, political tradition, with its emphasis on experience over abstract theory, was integral to the way in which the empire was regarded as being transformed rather than lost. This was a significant aspect of the relatively painless British loss of empire. It places the process of decolonization in its wider context, tracing the twentieth-century domestic and international conditions that hastened decolonization, and, through a close analysis of not only the policy choices but also the language of British imperialism, it throws new light on the British way of managing both the expansion and contraction of empire.
