Canada's Origins : Liberal, Tory, or Republican?

By:

Ajzenstat, Janet

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773580428

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Canada's OriginsLOC classification:

F1034.2 .C36 1997

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Contents:

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: CANADA'S ORIGINS IN NEW PERSPECTIVE -- Liberal-Republicanism: The Revisionist Picture of Canada's Founding -- PART II: THE TORY PARADIGM -- Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism in Canada: An Interpretation -- PART III: REPUBLICAN INFLUENCE -- The Ideological Origins of Canadian Confederation -- The First Distinct Society: French Canada, America, and the Constitution of 1791 -- Civic Humanism Versus Liberalism: Fitting the Loyalists In -- PART IV: LIBERAL ROOTS -- Durham and Robinson: Political Faction and Moderation -- The Triumph of Liberalism in Canada: Laurier on Representation and Party Government -- Egerton Ryerson's Canadian Liberalism -- The Constitutionalism of Étienne Parent and Joseph Howe -- The Provincial Rights Movement: Tensions Between Liberty and Community in Legal Liberalism -- PART V: LOOKING AHEAD -- Canada's Political Culture Today: Liberal, Republican, or Third Wave? -- Selected Bibliography.

Summary: Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article in which the red tory view was formulated. It then presents a new and illuminating picture of Canadian political life, in which liberal individualism confronts not toryism but the participatory tradition of civic republicanism. In the final section the two editors, one a liberal, the other a civic republican, debate the crucial questions dominating Canadian politics today-including Quebec's search for recognition-from the perspective of their shared understanding of Canada's founding.

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Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article in which the red tory view was formulated. It then presents a new and illuminating picture of Canadian political life, in which liberal individualism confronts not toryism but the participatory tradition of civic republicanism. In the final section the two editors, one a liberal, the other a civic republican, debate the crucial questions dominating Canadian politics today-including Quebec's search for recognition-from the perspective of their shared understanding of Canada's founding.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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