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.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in early Canada ; 2.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • "As may consist with their Allegiance to His Majesty": Redefining Loyal Subjects in 1774 / Hannah Weiss Muller
  • The Quebec Act and the Canadiens: The Myth of the Seminal Moment / Donald Fyson
  • Choosing between French and English Law: The Legal Origins of the Quebec Act / Michel Morin
  • Quebec, Bengal, and the Rise of Authoritarian Legal Pluralism / Christian R. Burset
  • Rethinking Ireland and Assimilation: Rethinking Ireland and Assimilation: Quebec, Collaboration, and the Heterogeneous Empire / Aaron Willis
  • London's Role in the Connection between the Holy See and North America, 1745-1812 / Luca Codignola
  • A "Fit Instrument": The Quebec Act and the Outbreak of Rebellion in Two British Atlantic Port Cities / Brad A. Jones
  • Seeing Red: The Quebec Act and Its Geographic Implications / Jeffers Lennox
  • "Our Concerns with Indians are now greatly extended": Cherokees, Westward Indians, and Interpreting the Quebec Act from the Ohio Valley, 1763-1774 / Kristofer Ray
  • The Quebec Act and the Aboriginal Land Issue in Canada / Alain Beaulieu.