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Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion

Autor Éléna Choquette
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mai 2024
Uncovers Canada’s methods of appropriating Indigenous land hidden beneath its history.

Canada was a small country in 1867, but within twenty years its claims to sovereignty spanned the continent. With Confederation came the vaunting ambition to create an empire from sea to sea. How did Canada lay claim to land so swiftly?

Land and the Liberal Project examines the tactics deployed by Canadian officialdom from the first articulation of expansionism in 1857 to the consolidation of authority following the 1885 North-West Resistance. Éléna Choquette contends that although the dominion purported to absorb Indigenous lands through constitutionalism, administration, and law, it often resorted to force in the face of Indigenous resistance. She investigates the liberal concept that underpinned land appropriation and legitimized violence: Indigenous territory and people were to be “improved,” the former by agrarian capitalism, the latter by enforced schooling.

By rethinking this tainted approach to nation-making, Choquette’s clear-eyed exposé of the Canadian expansionist project offers new ways to understand colonization.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780774869805
ISBN-10: 0774869801
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 5 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of British Columbia Press
Colecția University of British Columbia Press

Notă biografică

Éléna Choquette is associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at Cambridge University and has been published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Settler Colonial Studies, and the Journal of Political Ideologies.

Cuprins

Introduction: Expanding Canada
1 Birthing Canada, 1857–67
2 Founding Manitoba, 1867–70
3 Ordering, Settling, and Policing the Northwest, 1871–76
4 Canadianizing the Indigenous Peoples, 1876–84
5 Defeating and Eliminating Indigeneity, 1884–85
Conclusion: The Peaceable Kingdom Canadians Reign over Today
Notes; References; Index

Recenzii

"Land and the Liberal Project is an excellent and much-needed accounting of colonialism during the period surrounding Confederation. It challenges nationalistic narratives regarding the formation of Canada."

"Éléna Choquette challenges the collective perception Canada has of itself as a peaceable kingdom. Her scholarship sets a new standard on the political history of the Canadian Northwest."