Blood & Loyalty (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Christopher Dummitt | knygos.lt

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If your reading of history has left you with the impression that Canada's formation was lacking something in American-style revolutionary drama, read on. While the country's self-governance may have come about peacefully in 1867, it began decades earlier on blood-soaked streets, in the aftermath of the violent rebellions of 1837-38.

Those insurgencies gave rise to a new generation of Canadian visionaries who built democracy through assertive, independent-minded loyalty. In embracing and reshaping British political institutions, reformers like Robert Baldwin, Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine, and Joseph Howe turned defeat into a breakthrough. Their struggle culminated in 1849, when angry mobs burned the Parliament buildings in Montreal--a fiery symbol of how hard-won self-government truly was, and how fragile it can be.

For Canada in the twenty-first century, the importance of not taking self-governance for granted has again become an urgent issue. Deeply researched and rivetingly written, Blood and Loyalty shows that the country's political story is one of loyalty and reform, compromise and powerful assertiveness. It is a timely reminder of what makes Canada Canada.