Globalizing confederation : Canada and the world in 1867 / edited by Jacqueline D. Krikorian, Marcel Martel, and Adrian Shubert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada's Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacks a range of viewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British colonies, and Indigenous peoples. Exploring perspectives from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Latin America, New Zealand, and the Vatican, among others, as well as considering the impact of Confederation on the rights of Indigenous peoples during this period, the contributors to this collection present how Canada's Confederation captured the imaginations of people around the world in the 1860s. Globalizing Confederation reveals how some viewed the 1867 changes to Canada as part of a reorganization of the British Empire, while others contextualized it in the literature on colonization more broadly, while still others framed the event as part of a re-alignment or power shift among the Spanish, French and British empires. While many people showed interest in the Confederation debates, others, such as South Africa and the West Indies, expressed little interest in the establishment of Canada until it had profound effects on their corners of the global political landscape.

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Cover -- Page i -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction: Canada and the World in 1867 -- Part ONE: Perspectives from the Americas -- 1 Confederation Unknown? Latin American Views on the Emergence of Canada in 1867 -- 2 The 1867 Union of the British North American Colonies: A View from the United States -- 3 "Such Bastard Despotism": Fenian Views of Canadian Confederation -- 4 Confederation Comes at a Cost: Indigenous Peoples and the Ongoing Reality of Colonialism in Canada -- Part Two: Perspectives from Europe -- 5 The View from the Quirinal: The Holy See and Confederation -- 6 Model and Anomaly: The Canadian Confederation Seen from France, 1864-1871 -- 7 War Was? Habsburg Perspectives on Canadian Federation -- 8 Canadian Lessons, Roads Not Taken: Spanish Views on Confederation -- Part Three: Perspectives from Britain and the Empire -- 9 British Views of Canada at the Time of Confederation -- 10 The Impact of Canadian Confederation in Ireland -- 11 Distant Relations: Australian Perspectives on Canadian Federation -- 12 The Delinquent Colony: The New Zealand Press and Canadian Confederation -- 13 "The Word Is Steeped in Blood and Violence": Canadian-Style Federation in Southern Africa -- 14 The Federation Idea in the British West Indies and Canadian Confederation -- Contributors -- Index.

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