Law, rhetoric and irony in the formation of Canadian civil culture / / Michael Dorland, Maurice Charland

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780534603321
• Autore: Dorland Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2002; ©2002
• ISBN: 9786612028328; 1-282-02832-4; 1-4426-7660-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 971
• Soggetti: Civil society - Canada; Law - Canada - History; History; Electronic books.; Canada Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Envoi -- Situating Canada's Civil Culture -- 'Who Killed Canadian History?' The Uses and Abuses of Canadian Historiography -- The Legitimacy of Conquest: Issues in the Transition of Legal Regimes, 1760s-1840s -- Constituting Constitutions under the British Regime, 1763-1867 -- The Limits of Law: The North-West, Riel, and the Expansion of Anglo-Canadian Institutions, 1869-1885 -- 'Impious Civility': Woman's Suffrage and the Refiguration of Civil Culture, 1885-1929 -- The Dialectic of Language, Law, and Translation: Manitoba and Quebec Revisited, 1969-1999 -- Civility, Its Discontents, and the Performance of Social Appearance -- The Figures of Authority in Canadian Civil Culture.
• Sommario/riassunto: A challenging examination of the history of Canadian governance and the central role played by legal and other discourses in the formation of civil culture.