Constant Struggle: Histories of Canadian Democratization 9780228009948
A provocative collection of essays that reshapes our common understanding of Canada’s history with democracy. Constant
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Table of contents :
Cover
CONSTANT STRUGGLE
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Questioning Canadian Democracy
PART ONE | OPENINGS
1 The Search for Canadian Democracy: Transnational Insights into Democratization
2 First Nations, Colonialism, and the Issue of Equality from the Ancien Régime to Contemporary Democracy
PART TWO | DEMOCRATIC LIMITS AND PARADOXES, 1820S–60S
3 Democracy in a Settler State? Settler Colonialism and the Development of Canada, 1820–67
4 “A Terrible Engine in the Hands of the Provincial Administration”: The Corporate Franchise State and Joint-Stock Democracy in the Last of the Atlantic Revolutions
5 Incorporating Contributory Democracy: Self-Taxation and Self-Government in Upper Canada
6 Conceptualizing Democratic Conservatism in 1850s Canada
7 A Tendency towards Mobocracy? The Democratic Realities of Nineteenth-Century British North America
PART THREE | STRUGGLES AROUND “LIBERAL DEMOCRACY,” 1940S–90S
8 Human Rights Activists’ Struggles to Forge a More Egalitarian Democracy in Canada in the 1940s and 1950s
9 “Will Freedom Survive?”: Reconstruction, Self-Disciplined Democracy, and the Stirring of a New Right in Canada, 1943–54
10 The Real World of Democracy? C.B. Macpherson’s Critique of the Cold War Reification of “Liberal Democracy,” 1965
11 Recognition as Regulation: Liberal Democracy and Sexual Citizenship in Canada
PART FOUR | HISTORY AND BEYOND
12 Community and Expertise in Canadian Democracy since 1920
13 Reckoning with the Realities of History: The Politics of White Supremacy and the Expansion of Settler Democracy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
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