Revolutions across Borders: Jacksonian America and the Canadian Rebellion: Volume 3 (Rethinking Canada in the World) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773556656 ISBN 13: 9780773556652

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Starting in 1837, rebels in Upper and Lower Canada revolted against British rule in an attempt to reform a colonial government that they believed was unjust. While this uprising is often perceived as a small-scale, localized event, Revolutions across Borders demonstrates that the Canadian Rebellion of 1837–38 was a major continental crisis with dramatic transnational consequences. In this groundbreaking study, contributors analyze the extent of the Canadian Rebellion beyond British North America and the turbulent Jacksonian period's influence on rebel leaders and the course of the rebellion. Exploring the rebellion's social and economic dimensions, its impact on American politics, policy-making, and the philosophy of manifest destiny, and the significant changes south of the border that influenced this Canadian uprising, the essays in this volume show just how malleable borderland relations were. Chapters investigate how Americans frustrated with the young republic considered an “alternative republic” in Canada, the new monetary system that the rebels planned to establish, how the rebellion played a major role in Martin Van Buren's defeat in the 1840 presidential election, and how America's changing economic alliances doomed the Canadian Rebellion before it even started. Reevaluating the implications of this transnational conflict, Revolutions across Borders brings new life and understanding to this turning point in the history of North America.

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About the Authors

Maxime Dagenais is research coordinator of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of History at McMaster University. Julien Mauduit is L.R. Wilson Assistant Professor at McMaster University.

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Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773556656
• ISBN 13: 9780773556652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Dagenais Maxime, Mauduit Julien