Transatlantic subjects : ideas, institutions, and social experience in post-revolutionary British North America /

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Other Authors: Christie, Nancy, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Theorizing a Colonial Past: Canada as a Society of British Settlement
  • PART ONE: AGRARIAN PATRIOTS
  • The Canadiens and British Institutions of Local Governance in Quebec from the Conquest to the Rebellions
  • “The Plague of Servantsâ€?: Female Household Labour and the Making of Classes in Upper Canada
  • Revisiting Feudal Vestiges in Urban Quebec
  • PART TWO: PROVINCIAL BRITONS
  • How the Canadian Methodists Became British: Unity, Schism, and Transatlantic Identity, 1827â€?54
  • The Dividends of Empire: Church Establishments and Contested British Identities in the Canadas and the Maritimes, 1780â€?1850Monitorial Schooling, “Common Christianity, â€? and Politics: A Transatlantic Controversy
  • PART THREE: A LABORATORY OF MODERNITY
  • Scottish-Trained Medical Practitioners in British North America and Their Participation in a Transatlantic Culture of Enlightenment
  • The Malthusian Moment: British Travellers and the Vindication of Economic Liberalism in the Maritime Countryside
  • €œDeserving of Favourable Considerationâ€?: Crown Land Agents, Surveyors, and Access to Crown Lands in Upper CanadaPopular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830s
  • “The Original Idea Has Been Considerably Amplifiedâ€?: Culture, Authority, and the Emergence of a Liberal Social Order in the Central Canadian Mechanicsâ€? Institute Movement, 1828â€?60
  • Contributors