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Author Jones, Benjamin T., 1982- author.

Title Republicanism and responsible government : the shaping of democracy in Australia and Canada / Benjamin T. Jones
Published Montréal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014

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Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. What Is Civic Republicanism? -- 3. 1837: The Almost Revolution -- 4. Lord Durham and the Grand Compromise -- 5. Nova Scotia and the New Deal -- 6. Domino Effect -- 7. Future America of the Southern Hemisphere: Dr Lang and the Failure of Separatism -- 8. Colony of Virtue: The Anti-Transportation League -- 9. Eureka Revisited: How Republican Was the Great Stockade? -- 10. Responsible Government: A Liberal or a Civic Republican Legacy?
Summary "Despite remarkable similarities, little attempt has been made to compare the political development of colonial-era Australia and Canada. Both nations were born as British colonies and used violent and non-violent means to agitate for democratic freedoms. Republicanism and Responsible Government explores how these sister colonies transformed the very nature of the British Empire by insisting on democratic self-rule
Focusing on the middle of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Jones explores key points in colonial Australian and Canadian history - Canada's Rebellions of 1837-38 and the Durham Report, and Australia's anti-transportation movement and the Eureka Stockade. Previously, historians have looked to liberalism when explaining radicalism and democratization. Jones, however, contends that Canadian and Australian radicals and reformers were influenced by the ancient political philosophy of civic republicanism, with its focus on collectivism, civic duty, and virtue. William Lyon Mackenzie and John Dunmore Lang, he argues, did not champion republicanism to achieve individual rights but to create a virtuous society free from the corruption they saw in the status quo
Republicanism and Responsible Government challenges traditional interpretations of key events in Australian and Canadian history and shows that even though both nations remain constitutional monarchies, republican ideas have shaped their foundations since the earliest days of settlement."--Pub. desc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Republicanism -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
Republicanism -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
Democracy -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
Democracy -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Democracy
Politics and government
Republicanism
SUBJECT Canada -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019340
Australia -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Subject Australia
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773592063
0773592067
9780773592070
0773592075