Canada and the Empires of the Past

Perry, Adele

doi:10.1111/1478-0542.008

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2003

DOI: 10.1111/1478-0542.008

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Canada and the Empires of the Past

Adele Perry

Abstract: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip paid a visit to the prairie city where I live last month, and people stayed away in droves. Across the country, the tour met with small crowds and sceptical assessments of the monarchy's future; there are many regional peculiarities in modern Canada, but disinterest in imperial pageantry apparently is not among them. This may not provide an answer to that shopworn question of North American historiography -namely why Britain's northern colonies did not share the revolutiona… Show more

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“… Although as Perry reminds us, the influence of the new imperial historiography on Canadian scholarship remains limited. Perry, ‘Canada and the Empires of the Past’.…”

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Colonialism and Resettling British Columbia: Canadian Aboriginal Historiography, 1992–2012

Neylan

2013

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This is the first of two essays examining the recent historiography of Canadian Aboriginal History published roughly in the last two decades (1992-2012) using a regional focus -British Columbia. Influenced by broader political contexts and land claims litigation, BC scholarship has been characterized by diversity and interdisciplinarity. The impact of ethnohistorical methodologies, "the cultural turn," and the centrality of race and imperialism have brought an international scholarship to bear on the writing of British Columbia Aboriginal History. From reading the colonial archive against the grain to better appreciate Indigenous histories hidden within to seeking out Indigenous historical knowledge and employing collaborative relationships to facilitate this, historians have shifted their methods to be more inclusive of the Aboriginal perspectives. The prominence of colonialism and the acknowledgement of resettlement, rather than settlement, as the foundation of the province's past have kept Native-Settler relations in the foreground in the scholarship.When I dig around in the roots of how we imagine ourselves, how we govern, how we live together in communities -how we treat one another when we are not being stupid -what I find is deeply Aboriginal. . . .So it is both curious and troubling that we cannot bring ourselves to talk about how profoundly our society has been shaped over four centuries in its non-monolithic, non-European manner by the First Nations.

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“… Although as Perry reminds us, the influence of the new imperial historiography on Canadian scholarship remains limited. Perry, ‘Canada and the Empires of the Past’.…”

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Time, Space, and the History of Early Modern North America¹

Mancke

2003

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This article analyzes some of the temporal and spatial categories we use to conceptualize and describe early modern North America. Some of our most significant spatial and temporal categories -in particular, "colonies" and "colonial" -are products of the historiography of the rise of the nation-state and reflect those concerns and assumptions. The shift to Atlantic history, trans-imperial histories, and the ethnic histories of non-European peoples in the Americas, both indigenous and Africans, obliges us to scrutinize these categories, recognize their specificity and descriptive power, and use spatial and temporal descriptors that reflect the continent's historical complexity and the historiographic achievements of the past thirty years.

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Canada and the Empires of the Past

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Colonialism and Resettling British Columbia: Canadian Aboriginal Historiography, 1992–2012

Colonialism and Resettling British Columbia: Canadian Aboriginal Historiography, 1992–2012

Time, Space, and the History of Early Modern North America¹

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