Entangling the Quebec Act : transnational contexts, meanings, and legacies in North America and the British empire /
"Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment--indeed part of the "textbook narrative"--In several differ...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Hubert, Ollivier, 1968- editor Furstenberg, François, editor. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. |
| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in early Canada ;
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | "Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment--indeed part of the "textbook narrative"--In several different national histories, the Quebec Act remains underexamined in all of them. The first sustained examination of the act in nearly thirty years, Entangling the Quebec Act brings together essays by historians from North America and Europe to explore this seminal event using a variety of historical approaches. Focusing on a singular occurence that had major social, legal, revolutionary, and imperial repercussions, the book weaves together perspectives from spatially and conceptually distinct historical fields --legal and cultural, political and religious, and beyond. Collectively, they resituate the Quebec Act in light of Atlantic, American, Canadian, Indigenous, and British Imperial historiographies. A transnational collaboration, Entangling the Quebec Act shows how the interconnectedness of national histories is visible at a single crossing point, illustrating the importance of intertwining methodologies to bring these connections into focus."-- Brings together essays by historians from North America and Europe to explore this seminal event using a variety of historical approaches. It weaves together perspectives from spatially and conceptually distinct historical fields - legal and cultural, political and religious, and beyond. |
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| Item Description: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on December 23, 2020). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 401 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0228004632 9780228004646 0228004640 9780228004639 0228003903 9780228003908 022800389X 9780228003892 |
| Author Notes: | Ollivier Hubert is professor of history at Université de Montréal.Furstenberg François : François Furstenberg is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. |