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Transatlantic SubjectsIdeas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America |
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A reinterpretation of the place of colonial Canada within a reconstructed British Empire that focuses on culture and social relations.
Transatlantic Subjects dissents from four decades of scholarly writing on colonial Canada by taking the British imperial context - rather than the North American environment - as a conceptual framework for interpreting patterns of social and cultural life in the colonies prior to the 1850s.
Anchored in "the new British history" advanced by J.G.A. Pocock, David Armitage, and Kathleen Wilson, this collective work explores ideas, institutions, and social practices that were adapted and changed through the process of migration from the British archipelago to the new settlement societies. Contributors discuss a broad range of institutional and social practices, including education, religion, radical politics, and family life.
Transatlantic Subjects offers a new perspective for the writing of Canada's history. A self-conscious response to the plea for a broader British history that includes the overseas settlement colonies, it makes a significant contribution to the new cultural history of the British Empire.
Contributors include Bruce Curtis (Carleton), Michael Eamon (Queen's), Darren Ferry (McMaster), Donald Fyson (Laval), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster), Jeffrey McNairn (Queen's), Bryan Palmer (Queen's), J.G.A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins), Michelle Vosburgh (Brock), Todd Webb (Laurentian), and Brian Young (McGill)."
Anchored in "the new British history" advanced by J.G.A. Pocock, David Armitage, and Kathleen Wilson, this collective work explores ideas, institutions, and social practices that were adapted and changed through the process of migration from the British archipelago to the new settlement societies. Contributors discuss a broad range of institutional and social practices, including education, religion, radical politics, and family life.
Transatlantic Subjects offers a new perspective for the writing of Canada's history. A self-conscious response to the plea for a broader British history that includes the overseas settlement colonies, it makes a significant contribution to the new cultural history of the British Empire.
Contributors include Bruce Curtis (Carleton), Michael Eamon (Queen's), Darren Ferry (McMaster), Donald Fyson (Laval), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster), Jeffrey McNairn (Queen's), Bryan Palmer (Queen's), J.G.A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins), Michelle Vosburgh (Brock), Todd Webb (Laurentian), and Brian Young (McGill)."
Details
496 Pages, 6 x 9
2 tables and 4 diagrams
ISBN 9780773533882
February 2008
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"Readers will find that the essays are of high scholarly quality, extensively researched, grounded in relevant literatures, and judicious in the claims they set forth." Todd Stubbs, Lakehead University
"Transatlantic Subjects is a collection of essays edited by historian Nancy Christie and responding to J.G.A. Pocock's call for a reinterpretation of British history. The interpretative approach taken in the work achieves this lofty goal by examining one of the British Empire's peripheries: post-revolutionary British North America." Canadian Journal of History
"Transatlantic Subjects is a collection of essays edited by historian Nancy Christie and responding to J.G.A. Pocock's call for a reinterpretation of British history. The interpretative approach taken in the work achieves this lofty goal by examining one of the British Empire's peripheries: post-revolutionary British North America." Canadian Journal of History
Nancy Christie is professor, history, Trent University, the author of several prize-winning books, including A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940, and Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada.
Transatlantic Subjects
Edited by Nancy Christie
Table of Contents
vii
J.G.A. Pocock
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Theorizing a Colonial Past: Canada as a Society of
British Settlement 3
Nancy Christie
PART ONE: AGRARIAN PATRIOTS
The Canadiens and British Institutions of Local Governance in Quebec from the Conquest to the Rebellions 45
Donald Fyson
“The Plague of Servants”: Female Household Labour and the Making of Classes in Upper Canada 83
Nancy Christie
Revisiting Feudal Vestiges in Urban Quebec 133
Brian Young
PART TWO: PROVINCIAL BRITONS
How the Canadian Methodists Became British: Unity, Schism, and Transatlantic Identity, 1827-54 159
Todd Webb
The Dividends of Empire: Church Establishments and Contested British Identities in the Canadas and the Maritimes, 1780-1850 199
Michael Gauvreau
Monitorial Schooling, “Common Christianity,” and Politics: A Transatlantic Controversy 251
Bruce Curtis
PART THREE: A LABORATORY OF MODERNITY
Scottish-Trained Medical Practitioners in British North America and Their Participation in a Transatlantic Culture of Enlightenment 283
Michael Eamon
The Malthusian Moment: British Travellers and the Vindication of Economic Liberalism in the Maritime Countryside 329
Jeffrey L. McNairn
“Deserving of Favourable Consideration”: Crown Land Agents, Surveyors, and Access to Crown Lands in Upper Canada 369
Michelle Vosburgh
Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830s 403
Bryan Palmer
“The Original Idea Has Been Considerably Amplified”: Culture, Authority, and the Emergence of a Liberal Social Order in the Central Canadian Mechanics’ Institute Movement, 1828-60 439
Darren Ferry
Contributors 475
Edited by Nancy Christie
Table of Contents
vii
J.G.A. Pocock
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Theorizing a Colonial Past: Canada as a Society of
British Settlement 3
Nancy Christie
PART ONE: AGRARIAN PATRIOTS
The Canadiens and British Institutions of Local Governance in Quebec from the Conquest to the Rebellions 45
Donald Fyson
“The Plague of Servants”: Female Household Labour and the Making of Classes in Upper Canada 83
Nancy Christie
Revisiting Feudal Vestiges in Urban Quebec 133
Brian Young
PART TWO: PROVINCIAL BRITONS
How the Canadian Methodists Became British: Unity, Schism, and Transatlantic Identity, 1827-54 159
Todd Webb
The Dividends of Empire: Church Establishments and Contested British Identities in the Canadas and the Maritimes, 1780-1850 199
Michael Gauvreau
Monitorial Schooling, “Common Christianity,” and Politics: A Transatlantic Controversy 251
Bruce Curtis
PART THREE: A LABORATORY OF MODERNITY
Scottish-Trained Medical Practitioners in British North America and Their Participation in a Transatlantic Culture of Enlightenment 283
Michael Eamon
The Malthusian Moment: British Travellers and the Vindication of Economic Liberalism in the Maritime Countryside 329
Jeffrey L. McNairn
“Deserving of Favourable Consideration”: Crown Land Agents, Surveyors, and Access to Crown Lands in Upper Canada 369
Michelle Vosburgh
Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830s 403
Bryan Palmer
“The Original Idea Has Been Considerably Amplified”: Culture, Authority, and the Emergence of a Liberal Social Order in the Central Canadian Mechanics’ Institute Movement, 1828-60 439
Darren Ferry
Contributors 475
