caa a22 4500 388106883 CHVBK 20180307125341.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900010076 doi S0008423900010076 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900010076 Mancke Elizabeth University of Akron Early Modern Imperial Governance and the Origins of Canadian Political Culture [Elektronische Daten] [Elizabeth Mancke] For the last three decades, scholars of Canadian political culture have favoured ideological explanations for state formation with the starting point being the American Revolution and Loyalist resettlement in British North America. This article challenges both the ideological bias and the late eighteenth-century chronology through a reassessment of early modern developments in the British imperial state. It shows that many of the institutional features associated with the state in British North America and later Canada—strong executives and weak assemblies, Crown control of land and natural resources, parliamentary funding of colonial development and accommodation of non-British subjects—were all institutionalized in the imperial state before the American Revolution and before the arrival of significant numbers of ethnically British settlers to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Quebec. Ideological discourses in the British North American colonies that became Canada, unlike those that became the United States, traditionally acknowledged the presence of a strong state in its imperial and colonial manifestations. Rather than challenging its legitimacy, as had Americans, British North Americans, whether liberals, republicans or tories, debated the function of the state and the distribution of power within it. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique 1999 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/1(1999-03), 3-20 0008-4239 32:1<3 1999 32 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010076 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900010076 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mancke Elizabeth University of Akron NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/1(1999-03), 3-20 0008-4239 32:1<3 1999 32 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge