3 Democracy in a Settler State? Settler Colonialism and the Development of Canada, 1820–67

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Openings
6. The Search for Canadian Democracy: Transnational Insights into Democratization 33
7. First Nations, Colonialism, and the Issue of Equality from the Ancien Régime to Contemporary Democracy 58
8. Democratic Limits and Paradoxes, 1820s–60s
9. Democracy in a Settler State? Settler Colonialism and the Development of Canada, 1820–67 87
10. “A Terrible Engine in the Hands of the Provincial Administration”: The Corporate Franchise State and Joint-Stock Democracy in the Last of the Atlantic Revolutions 116
11. Incorporating Contributory Democracy: Self-Taxation and Self-Government in Upper Canada 148
12. Conceptualizing Democratic Conservatism in 1850s Canada 172
13. A Tendency towards Mobocracy? The Democratic Realities of Nineteenth-Century British North America 203
14. Struggles Around “Liberal Democracy,” 1940s–90s
15. Human Rights Activists’ Struggles to Forge a More Egalitarian Democracy in Canada in the 1940s and 1950s 235
16. “Will Freedom Survive?”: Reconstruction, Self-Disciplined Democracy, and the Stirring of a New Right in Canada, 1943–54 264
17. The Real World of Democracy? C.B. Macpherson’s Critique of the Cold War Reification of “Liberal Democracy,” 1965 297
18. Recognition as Regulation: Liberal Democracy and Sexual Citizenship in Canada 319
19. History and Beyond
20. Community and Expertise in Canadian Democracy since 1920 355
21. Reckoning with the Realities of History: The Politics of White Supremacy and the Expansion of Settler Democracy in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 390
22. Bibliography 423
23. Index 483