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Land and the Liberal Project: Canadas Violent Expansion

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By (author): Éléna Choquette

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 so much land so quickly?

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, Choquettes clear-eyed exposé of the Canadian expansionist project offers new ways to understand colonization.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 460g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 May 2024
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publication City/Country: Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780774869805

About Éléna Choquette

Éléna Choquette is an associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. She has 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.

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