British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation
Title | British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Smith |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0773575006 |
Without pressure from a small but influential group of London financiers, Confederation would not have occurred in 1867, if at all. These financiers supported the unification of the British North American colonies because they believed it would rescue their under-performing investments and keep British North America within the British Empire.
British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation
Title | British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew David Allan Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 2005 |
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ISBN |
British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation
Title | British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Smith |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0773534059 |
Without pressure from a small but influential group of London financiers, Confederation would not have occurred in 1867, if at all. These financiers supported the unification of the British North American colonies because they believed it would rescue their under-performing investments and keep British North America within the British Empire. Andrew Smith discusses the role of British investors in Canadian Confederation, covering the period from the construction of the Grand Trunk Railroad in the 1850s to Canada's purchase of Rupert's Land in 1869-70. He describes how some investors lobbied the British government for the policies that made Confederation possible, working closely with the Fathers of Confederation, many of whom were participants in the same trans-Atlantic crony-capitalist system. British factory owners with classical liberal beliefs, however, disliked Confederation because they believed it would delay the political independence of the North American colonies, something they saw as beneficial. British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation reminds Canadians that most contemporaries of Confederation saw it as a way to preserve the colonists' bonds with Britain rather than to expand their political autonomy. It should interest a wide audience - from students of Canadian political history to historians interested in Victorian globalization.
Builders of the Canadian Commonwealth
Title | Builders of the Canadian Commonwealth PDF eBook |
Author | George Herbert Locke |
Publisher | Ryerson |
Pages | 580 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
American Civil Wars
Title | American Civil Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Don H. Doyle |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2017-02-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469631105 |
American Civil Wars takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary independence movements, and slave uprisings—all taking place in the tumultuous decade of the 1860s. The multiple conflicts described in these essays illustrate how the United States' sectional strife was caught up in a larger, complex struggle in which nations and empires on both sides of the Atlantic vied for the control of the future. These struggles were all part of a vast web, connecting not just Washington and Richmond but also Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, and Rio de Janeiro and--on the other side of the Atlantic--London, Paris, Madrid, and Rome. This volume breaks new ground by charting a hemispheric upheaval and expanding Civil War scholarship into the realms of transnational and imperial history. American Civil Wars creates new connections between the uprisings and civil wars in and outside of American borders and places the United States within a global context of other nations. Contributors: Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina Anne Eller, Yale University Richard Huzzey, University of Liverpool Howard Jones, University of Alabama Patrick J. Kelly, University of Texas at San Antonio Rafael de Bivar Marquese, University of Sao Paulo Erika Pani, College of Mexico Hilda Sabato, University of Buenos Aires Steve Sainlaude, University of Paris IV Sorbonne Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Tufts University Jay Sexton, University of Oxford
Globalizing Confederation
Title | Globalizing Confederation PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline D. Krikorian |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1487521901 |
In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or used Canada's Confederation in 1867 as a model to be adapted or avoided, Globalizing Confederation explores the ideas and events that captured the imagination of people around the world.
The Quebec Conference of 1864
Title | The Quebec Conference of 1864 PDF eBook |
Author | Eugénie Brouillet |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2018-12-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0773556052 |
Like all major events in Canadian history, the Quebec Conference of 1864, an important step on Canada's road to Confederation, deserves to be discussed and better understood. Efforts to revitalize historical memory must take a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach. The Quebec Conference of 1864 expresses a renewed historical interest over the last two decades in both the Quebec-Canada constitutional trajectory and the study of federalism. Contributors from a variety of disciplines argue that a more grounded understanding of the 72 Quebec Resolutions of 1864 is key to interpreting the internal architecture of the contemporary constitutional apparatus in Canada, and a new interpretation is crucial to appraise the progress made over the 150 years since the institution of federalism. The second volume in a series that began with The Constitutions That Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions, this book reveals a society in constant transition, as well as the presence of national projects that live in tension with the Canadian federation.