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Canada's Origins: Liberal, Tory, or Republican?

By Janet Ajzenstat

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780773580428
DOI
10.1515/9780773580428
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15326043 bytes)
Series
Carleton Library Series; 184
Pages
301\301
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 19:51:45

Description

Ajzenstat and Smith challenge the idea of Canada as a country whose liberal individualism, unlike that of the United States, is redeemed by a tradition of government intervention in economic and social life: the so-called "tory touch." This ground-breaking book begins with the now classic article in which the red tory view was formulated. It then presents a new and illuminating picture of Canadian political life, in which liberal individualism confronts not toryism but the participatory tradition of civic republicanism. In the final section the two editors, one a liberal, the other a civic republican, debate the crucial questions dominating Canadian politics today-including Quebec's search for recognition-from the perspective of their shared understanding of Canada's founding.

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