Category: colonialism

  • Biggar-01 Appendix D

    Modified:

    To determine how closely Biggar’s choice of source materials reflects the academic literature, we conducted five searches of Google Scholar, submitting queries that seemed relevant to his leading “moral questions” about Britain’s colonization of Canada: “canada .and. coloni*” (e.g. colonialism, colonization) “canada .and. settl*” (e.g. settler, settlement) “canada .and. (treaty .or. treaties)” “canada .and. genocide”…

  • Biggar-01 Appendix C

    Modified:

    Biggar discloses little about his criteria for including or excluding source materials. To determine how closely his choice of source materials reflects the academic literature, we conducted five searches of Google Scholar, submitting queries that seemed relevant to Biggar’s leading “moral questions” about Britain’s colonization of Canada: “canada .and. coloni*” (e.g. colonialism, colonization) “canada .and.…

  • Biggar-01 Appendix B

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    Appendix B derives Appendix A. We treat multiple page or page-range references for a given bibliographic source within an endnote as a single citation to that bibliographic source. We treat references to different volumes of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada as a single bibliographic source, including the Final Report‘s…

  • Biggar-01 Appendix A

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    APPENDIX A Appendix A presents Biggar’s citations of bibliographic sources relating to Britain’s colonization of Canada in his endnotes to Chapters 4, 5 and 7. PAGE(S): Page(s) of the bibliographic source referenced in the citation. CH.EN: Chapter (CH) and endnote (EN) containing the citation in order of appearance. REMARKS: Biggar’s qualification of a bibliographic source…

  • If there’s a right way to praise colonialism, this isn’t it

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    The Biggar Picture Sir Nigel Biggar, Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, is becoming a cause célèbre among crusdaders for a return to the “true” history of Canada and its treatment of First Nations. British historian’s lecture on colonialism cancelled at B.C. theology school, National Post, February 23, 2025…