Within and Without the Nation: Canadian History as Transnational History

Introduction: Canadian History, Transnational History (Karen Dubinsky, Adele Perry, and Henry Yu)

Part One: Indigenous Peoples and Dispossessions

1. The Dog that Didn’t Bark: The Durham Report, Indigenous Dispossession, and Self-Government for Britain’s Settler Colonies (Ann Curthoys)

2. The Bannisters and Their Colonial World: Family Networks and Colonialism in the Early Nineteenth Century (Elizabeth Elbourne)

3. Comparing to Connect: Indigenous Voices in Canada and South Africa (Tolly Bradford)

4. State-Sponsored Photography and Assimilation Policy in Canada and New Zealand (Angela Wanhalla)

5. Canada and Australia: On Anglo-Saxon “Oceana,” Transcolonial History, and an Interconnected Pacific World (Penelope Edmonds)

Part Two: Migrations

6. “In England a Man Can Do as He Likes with His Property”: Migration, Family Fortunes, and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Quebec and the Cape Colony (Bettina Bradbury)

7. Slave-Owner, Missionary, and Colonization Agent: The Transnational Life of John Taylor, 1813–1884 (Ryan Eyford)

8. Conceptualizing a Pacific Canada Within and Without Nations (Henry Yu)

9. “How I Wish I Might Be Near”: Distance, Emotion, and the Epistolary Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Condolence Letters (Laura Ishiguro)

10. “She Cannot Be Confined to Her Own Region”: Nursing and Nurses in the Caribbean, Canada, and the UK (Karen Flynn)

Part Three: Nationalisms, Internationalisms, and Antinationalisms

11. Law and Migration across the Pacific: Narrating the Komagata Maru Outside and Beyond the Nation (Renisa Mawani)

12. Canadian Girls, Imperial Girls, Global Girls: Race, Nation, and Transnationalism in the Interwar Girl Guide Movement (Kristine Alexander)

13. Health and Nation through a Transnational Lens: Radical Doctors and the History of Medicare in Saskatchewan (Esyllt W. Jones)

14. Progressive Catholicism at Home and Abroad: The “Double Solidarité” of Quebec Missionaries in Honduras, 1955–1975 (Fred Burrill and Catherine LeGrand)

15. Thinking Beyond What Nation? Empire and the Writing of Post-1945 Canadian History (Sean Mills)