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Book Synopsis Political Thought of Lord Durham by : Janet Ajzenstat
Download or read book Political Thought of Lord Durham written by Janet Ajzenstat and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Political Thought of Lord Durham by : Janet Ajzenstat
Download or read book Political Thought of Lord Durham written by Janet Ajzenstat and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America is usually discussed only in terms of its historical context - the events that brought Durham to Canada and the consequences of the Report's reform proposals. In a markedly different approach, Janet Ajzenstat treats the Report as a text in modern political thought. She develops Durham's underlying arguments and assumptions, demonstrating the essentially liberal character of his recommendations and revealing a tough-minded argument about political freedom and the place of national minorities in a free society.
Book Synopsis The Political Thought of Lord Durham by : Janet Ajzenstat
Download or read book The Political Thought of Lord Durham written by Janet Ajzenstat and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lord Durham's Report by : Gerald M. Craig
Download or read book Lord Durham's Report written by Gerald M. Craig and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-12-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis State of Politics in 1835, in a letter to the Earl of Durham. By a Member of the Church of England by : John George Lambton Earl of Durham
Download or read book State of Politics in 1835, in a letter to the Earl of Durham. By a Member of the Church of England written by John George Lambton Earl of Durham and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America; by : Charles Prestwood Lucas
Download or read book Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America; written by Charles Prestwood Lucas and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Durham Report and British Policy by : Ged Martin
Download or read book The Durham Report and British Policy written by Ged Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-11-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Winning of Popular Government by : Archibald MacMechan
Download or read book The Winning of Popular Government written by Archibald MacMechan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Winning of Popular Government' by Archibald MacMechan is a journey through the highlights of Canada's political history. The book covers pivotal moments in the nation's past, including the rule of Lord Durham (who MacMechan dubbed "Durham the Dictator"), Poulett Thomson's peacekeeping efforts, the rise of reform, and the establishment of popular government principles. MacMechan's writing transports readers to the heart of each event, providing a detailed and immersive experience of Canada's political evolution.
Download or read book Lord Durham written by Chester W. New and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lord Durham: A Biography of John George Lambton, First Earl of Durham These historical developments are dramatized for us by association with his personality. Much of the storminess of his life may be ascribed to the conflict of great political and social forces, but not a little of it was due to the directness of his methods, the loftiness of his courage, his hypersensitive pride, and his Violent temper. In him a magnificent manhood was hampered and marred by a singular childishness - a strange blending of noble visions and petty vanities, high sacrifices and puny impatience, sustained devotion and fiery temper, and through it all more than a touch of heroism. All his life the state of his health was such that few men so circumstanced would have thought of engaging in any form of public work. Through seasons of intense pain, and into one physical breakdown after another, he laboured on for the love of England that was in him; though frequently em bittered, he responded to every call and continued to make labour and trouble for himself until tuberculosis, added to his other maladies, cut off his life. He was spurred on, no doubt, by ambition as well as by patriotism, but it was the sort of ambition that we covet for our sons and daughters. I do not pretend to have been unmoved by such considera tions, but I believe that the weaker elements in Lord Dur ham's character are also clearly revealed. My business has been primarily to describe and interpret, and not to praise or blame. I have conceived of the task of the biographer as simply to set the stage and permit the central figure, his colleagues, friends, and opponents, to speak and act for themselves. From this conception of biography it follows that the pre face is the author's only refuge from anonymity. Here I have only one confession to make. I am a Canadian of the third generation and all of my grandparents were living in Canada in Lord Durham's day. That subjects me, I feel confident, to no party bias, but it does expose me to a pride that in the life of my own country there have developed certain world shaping conceptions. It was my original intention to add an epilogue tracing those ideas from Lord Durham to their fulfilment in our own day, showing that it was our Canadian forefathers who cherished most warmly Durham's concep tions, that it was they who took the lead in insisting that the British Empire should not break up again, and in bringing his vision of the permanence and character of the Empire to a fuller fruition than even he had dreamed. But I decided that that was another story and that my task should end with his death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Mechanism of the Modern State by : Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott
Download or read book The Mechanism of the Modern State written by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thoughts on the government, union, danger, wants and wishes of the Canadas, and on the proper line of policy of the British Parliament in these respects: being a letter to Mr. Hitchings of Toronto, occasioned by, and containing strictures on, one addressed to him by Dr. Dunlop, conveying his thoughts on the subject of responsible Government by : Charles Scott (of Montreal.)
Download or read book Thoughts on the government, union, danger, wants and wishes of the Canadas, and on the proper line of policy of the British Parliament in these respects: being a letter to Mr. Hitchings of Toronto, occasioned by, and containing strictures on, one addressed to him by Dr. Dunlop, conveying his thoughts on the subject of responsible Government written by Charles Scott (of Montreal.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to Present Day by : Sir Ernest Barker
Download or read book Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to Present Day written by Sir Ernest Barker and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Political Thought, 1603-1660 by : John William Allen
Download or read book English Political Thought, 1603-1660 written by John William Allen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1938 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Canadian Conservative Political Thought by : Lee Trepanier
Download or read book Canadian Conservative Political Thought written by Lee Trepanier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought. Across 15 chronologically organized chapters, and with a mixture of established and rising scholars, the book offers an investigation of the defining features and characteristics of Canadian conservative political thought, asking what have Canadian conservative political thinkers and practitioners learned from other traditions and, in turn, what have they contributed to our understanding of conservative political thought today? Rather than its culmination, Canadian Conservative Political Thought will be the beginning of conservative political thought’s recovery and will spark debates and future research. The book will be a great resource for courses on Canadian politics, history, political philosophy and conservatism, Canadian Studies, and political theory.
Book Synopsis Political Thought in England 1848-1914 by : Sir Ernest Barker
Download or read book Political Thought in England 1848-1914 written by Sir Ernest Barker and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colonial Reformers and Canada, 1830-1849 by : Peter Burroughs
Download or read book Colonial Reformers and Canada, 1830-1849 written by Peter Burroughs and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1969-01-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During these years of rebellion and political crisis in Canada, the traditional political and economic bases of Britain's colonial system were being revised with the coming of free trade and the acceptance of responsible government. This collection of documents presents the views of a small, influential group of Englishmen on Canadian questions and imperial relations.
Book Synopsis Republicanism and Responsible Government by : Benjamin T. Jones
Download or read book Republicanism and Responsible Government written by Benjamin T. Jones and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
