Research Catalog

Title

Republicanism and responsible government : the shaping of democracy in Australia and Canada / Benjamin T. Jones.

Author

Jones, Benjamin T., 1982-

Publication

• Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

x, 299 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "Despite remarkable similarities, little attempt has been made to compare the political development of colonial-era Australia and Canada. Both nations were born as British colonies and used violent and non-violent means to agitate for democratic freedoms. Republicanism and Responsible Government explores how these sister colonies transformed the very nature of the British Empire by insisting on democratic self-rule.
• Focusing on the middle of the nineteenth century, Benjamin Jones explores key points in colonial Australian and Canadian history - Canada's Rebellions of 1837-38 and the Durham Report, and Australia's anti-transportation movement and the Eureka Stockade. Previously, historians have looked to liberalism when explaining radicalism and democratization. Jones, however, contends that Canadian and Australian radicals and reformers were influenced by the ancient political philosophy of civic republicanism, with its focus on collectivism, civic duty, and virtue. William Lyon Mackenzie and John Dunmore Lang, he argues, did not champion republicanism to achieve individual rights but to create a virtuous society free from the corruption they saw in the status quo.
• Republicanism and Responsible Government challenges traditional interpretations of key events in Australian and Canadian history and shows that even though both nations remain constitutional monarchies, republican ideas have shaped their foundations since the earliest days of settlement."--Pub. desc.

Subject

• 1800 - 1899
• Republicanism > Canada > History > 19th century
• Republicanism > Australia > History > 19th century
• Democracy > Canada > History > 19th century
• Democracy > Australia > History > 19th century
• Républicanisme > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Républicanisme > Australie > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Démocratie > Canada > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Démocratie > Australie > Histoire > 19e siècle
• Democracy
• Politics and government
• Republicanism
• Republikanismus
• Demokratie
• Canada > Politics and government > 19th century
• Australia > Politics and government > 19th century
• Canada > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siècle
• Australie > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siècle
• Australia
• Canada
• Kanada

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

1 Introduction -- 2 What Is Civic Republicanism? -- 3 1837: The Almost Revolution -- 4 Lord Durham and the Grand Compromise -- 5 Nova Scotia and the New Deal -- 6 The Domino Effect -- 7 The Future America of the Southern Hemisphere: Dr Lang and the Failure of Separatism -- 8 A Colony of Virtue: The Anti-Transportation League -- 9 Eureka Revisited: How Republican Was the Great Stockade? -- 10 Responsible Government: A Liberal or a Civic.

Call Number

JFE 16-6044

ISBN

• 9780773543614
• 0773543619
• 9780773543621
• 0773543627
• 9780773592070
• 0773592075
• 9780773592063
• 0773592067

OCLC

864505045

Author

Jones, Benjamin T., 1982- author.

Title

Republicanism and responsible government : the shaping of democracy in Australia and Canada / Benjamin T. Jones.

Publisher

Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-294) and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Research Call Number

JFE 16-6044