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3 - Political Freedom

from Part I - 1838: The Year of Freedom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2020

Alan Lester ,
Kate Boehme  and
Peter Mitchell
Alan Lester
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
Kate Boehme
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
Peter Mitchell
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
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Summary

Settler rebellions in Lower and Upper Canada, 1837-8; genocide in Tasmania; the Durham Report; settler self-government; implications for Indigenous peoples.

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settler rebellions and self-government
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Ruling the World
Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
 , pp. 83 - 107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Burroughs, P., The Canadian Crisis and British Colonial Policy, Hodder & Stoughton, 1972.Google Scholar
Greer, A., The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada, University of Toronto Press, 2003.Google Scholar
Martin, G., The Durham Report and British Policy, Cambridge University Press, 1972.Google Scholar
Shaw, A. G. L., Sir George Arthur 1784–1854 – Superintendent of British Honduras, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land and of Upper Canada Governor of the Bombay Presidency, Melbourne University Press, 1980.Google Scholar
Smith, D. B., Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) & the Mississauga Indians, University of Toronto Press, 1987 .Google Scholar

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