{"product_id":"9781487502799-questions-of-order","title":"Questions of Order","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConfederation and the Making of Modern Canada\u003cbr\u003eCanadian Confederation has long been assessed as a political moment that created a new \"national\" entity. This book breaks new ground by arguing that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions and ideas about the future of global political order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happened on 1 July 1867? Over 150 years after Canadian Confederation, it seems like a question with an obvious answer. \u003ci\u003eQuestions of Order\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Confederation was not just a political deal struck by politicians in 1867, but a process of reconfiguring political concepts and the basis of political association.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreaking new ground, \u003ci\u003eQuestions of Order\u003c\/i\u003e argues that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions, concerns, and ideas about the future of political order in the British Empire and the world. It traces how for many public writers in English Canada, Confederation became an important basis for reimagining political order in the empire and redefining basic political concepts. To some, it marked a clear step in the larger project of imperial federation or even the ultimate union of the English-speaking world. For others, however, it represented the certain fragmentation of the empire into sovereign \"national\" states.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSet in the context of a time of enormous social and cultural change, when so many long-held assumptions and firmly believed truths were faltering in the wave of new scientific and philosophical beliefs, the creation of Canada forced writers and public thinkers to grapple with the nature of political association and attempt to find new answers to critical questions of order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53567376785782,"sku":"9781487502799","price":45.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31213182.jpg?v=1730965972","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781487502799-questions-of-order","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}