{"product_id":"land-and-the-liberal-project-lna-choquette-9780774869805","title":"Land and the Liberal Project: Canada's Violent Expansion","description":"\u003cb\u003eUncovers Canada's methods of appropriating Indigenous land hidden beneath its history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Canada was a small country in 1867, but within twenty years its claims to sovereignty spanned the continent. With Confederation came the vaunting ambition to create an empire from sea to sea. How did Canada lay claim to land so swiftly? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLand and the Liberal Project\u003c\/i\u003e examines the tactics deployed by Canadian officialdom from the first articulation of expansionism in 1857 to the consolidation of authority following the 1885 North-West Resistance. ?l?na Choquette contends that although the dominion purported to absorb Indigenous lands through constitutionalism, administration, and law, it often resorted to force in the face of Indigenous resistance. She investigates the liberal concept that underpinned land appropriation and legitimized violence: Indigenous territory and people were to be \"improved,\" the former by agrarian capitalism, the latter by enforced schooling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By rethinking this tainted approach to nation-making, Choquette's clear-eyed expos? of the Canadian expansionist project offers new ways to understand colonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e ?l?na Choquette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774869801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774869805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2024","brand":"?l?na Choquette","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451169460479,"sku":"9780774869805","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ac5f8bb-4877-4631-8c9c-066d7d434ba3.jpg?v=1735876662","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/land-and-the-liberal-project-lna-choquette-9780774869805","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}