Land and the Liberal Project: Canada's Violent Expansion - Paperback
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Land and the Liberal Project: Canada's Violent Expansion - Paperback
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by ?l?na Choquette (Author)
Uncovers Canada's methods of appropriating Indigenous land hidden beneath its history.
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 land so swiftly? 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. ?l?na 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, Choquette's clear-eyed expos? of the Canadian expansionist project offers new ways to understand colonization.Author Biography
?l?na Choquette is associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Universit? du Qu?bec en Outaouais. She 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.
Number of Pages: 232
Dimensions: 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: March 22, 2025