Introduction: The Good Cop

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. The Good Cop 3
5. The Background and the Foreground
6. Enlightenment, Self-Civilization, and Decivilization: Hume vs Franklin 39
7. “Am I Your Slave?”: Gendering Civilization 105
8. The British Reports on Canada
9. Tory Civilization in the 1820s: The Darling Report 155
10. Liberal Civilization in the 1830s: The Durham Report 190
11. The Sociology of Civilization in the 1840s: The Bagot Report 245
12. The Civilizations of the Canadas
13. Democratic Civilization in the 1850s: Joseph-Charles Taché and Political Voice 341
14. Constitutional Civilization in the 1860s: John A. Macdonald and Confederation 374
15. History's Civilization: Daniel Wilson and the End of History 427
16. The Politics of Civilization 457
17. Notes 475
18. Index 587