Katherine Fierlbeck

Political Thought in Canada

An Intellectual History

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Katherine Fierlbeck looks at the legacy of ideas taken from (or shaped in reaction to) the nations that have been most influential to Canada's development: the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781551117119
• ISBN-10: 1551117118
• Artikelnr.: 26191746

Autorenporträt

Katherine Fierlbeck is the McCulloch Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University, with a cross-appointment as professor of Community Health and Epidemiology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Context of Canadian Political Thought
Part 1: Defining a Nation
3. The Colonial Legacy
Toryism
British Liberalism and Constitutionalism
4. The Challenge of Neighbourliness: The United States
Jacksonian Liberalism and the Free Market
The Idea of "Sovereignty" in Canadian Political Thought
Part 2: Social Justice
5. Understanding the Culture of Social Justice
The Fragment Theory
The Role of Religion
6. Radical Political Thought
The Left
Other Forms of Radicalism
Part 3: Culture and Accommodation
7. French-Canadian Nationalism
The Church in Lower Canada
Early Liberalism in French Canada
Ultramontanism
Neo-nationalism and Social Radicalism
8. Minority Rights and Multiculturalism: Two Narratives
Minority Rights: The Recognition of "Deep Diversity"
Multiculturalism: The Primacy of Formal Equality
9. In History and in Myth
Bibliography
Index