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Globalizing Confederation

Globalizing Confederation

Canada and the World in 1867

Edited by Jacqueline D. Krikorian, Marcel Martel and Adrian Shubert

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

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9781487515041
Published: November 2017

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9781487515034
Published: November 2017

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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.

Introduction Jacqueline D. Krikorian, Marcel Martel and Adrian Shubert

Part 1: Perspectives from the Americas

1. Carsten-Andreas Schulz, Confederation Unknown? Latin American Views on the Emergence of Canada in 1867

2. Jacqueline D. Krikorian and David R. Cameron, The 1867 Union of the British North American Colonies: A View from the United States

3. William Jenkins, “Such bastard despotism”: Fenian Views of Canadian Confederation

4. Gabrielle Slowey, Confederation Comes at a Cost: Indigenous Peoples and the Ongoing Reality of Colonialism in Canada

Part 2: Perspectives from Europe

5. Roberto Perin, The View from The Quirinal: The Holy See and Confederation

6. Alban Bargain-Villéger, Model and Anomaly: The Canadian Confederation Seen from France, 1864-1871

7. Benno Gammerl, War was? Habsburg Perspectives on Canadian Federation

8. Josep María Fradera, Canadian Lessons, Roads not Taken: Spanish Views on Confederation

Part 3: Perspectives from Britain and the Empire

9. Edward Beasley, British Views of Canada at the Time of Confederation

10. Thomas Mohr, The Impact of Canadian Confederation in Ireland

11. Ann Curthoys, Distant Relations: Australian Perspectives on Canadian Federation

12. Kenton Storey, The Delinquent Colony: the New Zealand Press and Canadian Confederation

13. Timothy Stapleton, “The Word is Steeped in Blood and Violence”: Canadian-Style Federation in Southern Africa

14. Franklin W. Knight, The Federation Idea in the British West Indies and Canadian Confederation

Marcel Martel is a professor and Avie Bennett Historica Canada Chair in Canadian History at York University.

Adrian Shubert is a University Professor in the Department of History at York University.

"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."
~Jatinder Mann, Hong Kong Baptist University, British Journal of Canadian Studies