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Uniform Title Constant struggle (2021)
Title Constant struggle : histories of Canadian democratization / edited by Julien Mauduit, Jennifer Tunnicliffe
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Rethinking Canada in the world ; 9
Rethinking Canada in the world ; 9
Contents 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
Summary "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 democracy, if in fact it ever did. This volume asks what limits and contradictions have framed the nation's democratization process, examining how democracy has been understood by those who have advocated for or resisted it and exploring key historical realities that have shaped it. Scholars from a range of disciplines tackle this elusive concept, suggesting that instead of looking for a simple narrative, we must be alert to the slower, untidier, and incomplete processes of democratization in Canada. Constant Struggle offers a renewed, sometimes unsettling depiction, stretching from studies of early Indigenous societies, through colonial North America and Confederation, into the twentieth century. Contributors reassess democracy in light of settler colonialism and white supremacy, investigate connections between capitalism and democracy, consider alternative conceptions of democracy from Canada's past, and highlight the various ways in which the democratic ideal has been mobilized to advance particular visions of Canadian society. Demonstrating that Canada's democratization process has not always been one that empowered the people, Constant Struggle questions traditional views of the relationship between democracy and liberalism in Canada and around the world."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis C B Macpherson
Canadian Confederation
Gladston Murray
Joseph-Charles Tache
colonial democratization
corporations
debts
human rights
liberal
liberalism
settler
welfare state
white supremacism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2021)
Subject Democracy -- Canada -- History
Liberalism -- Canada -- History
HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
Democracy
Liberalism
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mauduit, Julien, 1979- editor
Tunnicliffe, Jennifer, editor
ISBN 9780228009955
0228009952
9780228009948
0228009944