Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture /

Law, Rhetoric, and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture / / Maurice Charland, Michael Dorland.

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In Rhetoric, Irony, and Law in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture, Michael Dorland and Maurice Charland examine how, over the roughly 400-year period since the encounter of First Peoples with Europeans in North America, rhetorical or discursive fields took form in politics and constitution-maki...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Charland, Maurice,
Dorland, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2002
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Envoi
  • 1. Situating Canada's Civil Culture
  • 2. 'Who Killed Canadian History?' The Uses and Abuses of Canadian Historiography
  • 3. The Legitimacy of Conquest: Issues in the Transition of Legal Regimes, 1760s-1840s
  • 4. Constituting Constitutions under the British Regime, 1763-1867
  • 5. The Limits of Law: The North-West, Riel, and the Expansion of Anglo-Canadian Institutions, 1869-1885
  • 6. 'Impious Civility': Woman's Suffrage and the Refiguration of Civil Culture, 1885-1929
  • 7. The Dialectic of Language, Law, and Translation: Manitoba and Quebec Revisited, 1969-1999
  • 8. Civility, Its Discontents, and the Performance of Social Appearance
  • 9. The Figures of Authority in Canadian Civil Culture
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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