Questions of Order

Peter Price holds a doctorate in History from Queen’s University.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: "A Time of Iconoclasm": Confederation and Transformations in Political Thought 1. An Age of Nation Making: Nation, State, and the Question of Canada’s Future 2. Cultivating a Constitution: Defining the Legal Foundations of Political Community3. Making Up the People: Ideas of Common Peoplehood and Citizenship4. Debating and Declaring Loyalty: The Evolution and Rhetorical Limits of Allegiance5. Naturalizing Modern Political Association: Naturalization and Nationality Law Reform Conclusion: "No Merely Passive Spectator": Canada in a Modern World Notes Bibliography Index

"Questions of Order is a nineteenth-century scrapbook of the land we left behind. Price is an enthusiastic chronicler. He guides readers through a time capsule of an era so different from ours Canada Day would be unrecognizable to the Fathers of Confederation."- Holly Doan (Blacklock’s Reporter) "Price delivers admirably. His book is a detailed exploration of how certain individuals (mostly highly educated and articulate) wrote about this new thing called the Dominion of Canada. He does a wonderful job digging into the magazines and books that were published in the decades after Confederation; Questions of Order essentially follows a nineteenth-century version of a scholarly Twitter debate, although, as was fitting for its age, the debate was long and drawn-out."- Christopher Dummitt, Trent University (Literary Review of Canada) "Price has advanced the discussion, producing a focused and readable study of the many ways that English Canadian thinkers struggled with the meaning of Confederation."- Steve Penfold, University of Toronto Press (Early Canadian History)