Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

History General

Globalizing Confederation

Canada and the World in 1867

edited by Jacqueline Krikorian, Marcel Martel & Adrian Shubert

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2017
Category
General, Native American, History & Theory, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487521905
    Publish Date
    Nov 2017
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487502294
    Publish Date
    Nov 2017
    List Price
    $78.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487515041
    Publish Date
    Nov 2017
    List Price
    $25.95

Add it to your shelf

Where to buy it

Description

Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada’s Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacks a range of viewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British colonies, and Indigenous peoples.

 

Exploring perspectives from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Latin America, New Zealand, and the Vatican, among others, as well as considering the impact of Confederation on the rights of Indigenous peoples during this period, the contributors to this collection present how Canada’s Confederation captured the imaginations of people around the world in the 1860s. Globalizing Confederation reveals how some viewed the 1867 changes to Canada as part of a reorganization of the British Empire, while others contextualized it in the literature on colonization more broadly, while still others framed the event as part of a re-alignment or power shift among the Spanish, French and British empires. While many people showed interest in the Confederation debates, others, such as South Africa and the West Indies, expressed little interest in the establishment of Canada until it had profound effects on their corners of the global political landscape.

About the authors

Jacqueline D. Krikorian is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.

Jacqueline Krikorian's profile page

Marcel Martel is a professor in the Department of History at York University, where he holds the Avie Bennett Historica Dominion Institute Chair in Canadian History. He is the author of Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975 (2006), Le Deuil d’un pays imaginé. Rêves, luttes et déroute du Canada français (1997), and co-author of Speaking Up. A History of Language and Politics in Canada and Quebec (2012).

Marcel Martel's profile page

ADRIAN SHUBERT is Associate Vice-President International, York University.

Adrian Shubert's profile page

Editorial Reviews

"This book makes a unique contribution to a field that has seen no shortage of works. I thoroughly recommend it to both specialists and general readers alike."

<em>British Journal of Canadian Studies</em>

Other titles by

Other titles by

Résistances, mobilisations et contestations

L’Association canadienne-française de l’Ontario (1910-2006)

edited by Michel Bock & Yves Frenette
contributions by Gratien Allaire, Serge Dupuis, Mariève Forest, Anne Gilbert & Marcel Martel

Le ministère des Affaires extérieures du Canada

Volume II : L’essor, 1946-1968

edited by Michel Bock & Yves Frenette
contributions by Gratien Allaire, Serge Dupuis, Mariève Forest, Anne Gilbert & Marcel Martel

La Confédération, 1864-1999

nouvelles perspectives

edited by Daniel Heidt
edited and translated by Colin M. Coates
translated by Kim Poti, Daniel Poitras, Philippe Thompson, Marcel Martel & Maxime Gohier

Reconsidering Confederation

Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864-1999

edited by Daniel Heidt
contributions by J.R. Miller, Marcel Martel, Colin Coates, Martin Paquet, Maxime Gohier, Phillip Buckner, Robert Wardhaugh, Barry Ferguson, Patricia Roy, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Ken S. Coates, Bill Waiser, Raymond B. Blake & Andre Legare

Roads to Confederation

The Making of Canada, 1867, Volume 2

edited by Jacqueline Krikorian, David Cameron, Marcel Martel, Andrew McDougall & Robert Vipond

Canada the Good

A Short History of Vice since 1500

by (author) Marcel Martel

Speaking Up

A History of Language and Politics in Canada and Quebec

by (author) Marcel Martel & Martin Paquet

Not This Time

Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975

by (author) Marcel Martel

Nation, Ideas, Identities

Essays in Honour of Ramsay Cook

edited by Michael D. Behiels & Marcel Martel

Le Deuil d'un pays imaginé

Rêves, luttes et déroute du Canada français

by (author) Marcel Martel

Other titles by