Dreams of a Tropical Canada: Race, Nation, and Canadian Aspirations in the Caribbean Basin, 1883-1919

摘要: Dreams of a "tropical Canada" that included the West Indies occupied thoughts many Canadians over period spanning nearly forty years. From expansionist fever late nineteenth century to redistribution German territories immediately following First World War, varying backgrounds campaigned vigorously for Canada-West union. Their efforts generated transatlantic discourse raised larger questions about Canada's national trajectory, imperial organization, and state Britain's Empire in twentieth century. This dissertation explores key ideas, tensions, contradictions shaped union time. Race, nation empire were central this discourse. Canadian expansionists' gain free access tropical territory, consolidate British possessions Western hemisphere, negotiate terms under which Indians color would enter federation reflected perpetuated logics simultaneously racial, national, imperial. campaigns raise important processes at work ideological material formation "nation" early Employing wide range public private manuscript material, diaries, travelogues newspapers, argues Canadians' aspirations inextricably connected vision. To campaign's advocates, acquiring colonial satellites - particularly regions was defining feature nation-state formation.