Liberalism and Hegemony

by Constant, Jean-francois; Ducharme, Michel

• ISBN13: 9780802095893
• ISBN10: 0802095895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-18
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

In 2000, Ian McKay, a highly respected historian at Queen's University, published an article in the Canadian Historical Review entitled -The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History.- Written to address a crisis in Canadian history, this detailed, programmatic, and well-argued article had an immediate impact on the field. Proposing that Canadian history should be mapped through a process of reconnaisance, and that the Canadian state should be understood as a project of liberal rule in North America, the essay prompted debate immediately upon publication. Liberalism and Hegemony assembles some of Canada's finest historians to continue the debate sparked by McKay's essay.The essays collected here explore the possibilities and limits presented by -The Liberal Order Framework- for various segments of Canadian history, and within them, the paramount influence of liberalism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is debated in the context of aboriginal history, environmental history, the history of the family, the development of political thought and ideas, and municipal governance.Like McKay's -The Liberal Order Framework,- which is included in this volume with a response to recent criticism, Liberalism and Hegemony is a fascinating foray into current historical thought and provides the historical community with a book that will act both as a reference and a guide for future research.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: A Project of Rule Called Canada - The Liberal Order Framework and Historical Practice	p. 3
'The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History,' reproduction of Canadian Historical Review 81 (2000): 617-45	p. 35
In Hope and Fear: Intellectual History, Liberalism, and the Liberal Order Framework	p. 64
Canada as Counter-Revolution: The Loyalist Order Framework in Canadian History, 1750-1840	p. 98
Rights Talk and the Liberal Order Framework	p. 147
After 'Canada': Liberalisms, Social Theory, and Historical Analysis	p. 176
The Municipal Territory: A Product of the Liberal Order?	p. 201
The Nature of the Liberal Order: State Formation, Conservation, and the Government of Non-Humans in Canada	p. 221
Missing Canadians: Reclaiming the A-Liberal Past	p. 246
Women, Racialized People, and the Making of the Liberal Order in Northern North America	p. 274
A Persistent Antagonism: First Nations and the Liberal Order	p. 298
'Variants of Liberalism' and the Liberal Order Framework in British Columbia	p. 322
Canada as a Long Liberal Revolution: On Writing the History of Actually Existing Canadian Liberalisms, 1840s-1940s	p. 347
Contributors	p. 453
Index	p. 457
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