The Formal and Informal Politics of British Rule in Post-Conquest Quebec, 1760-1837 : A Northern Bastille

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Title
The Formal and Informal Politics of British Rule in Post-Conquest Quebec, 1760-1837 : A Northern Bastille
Abstract
According to the publisher's remarks: "Nancy Christie innovatively and significantly transforms the writing of Quebec history between 1763 and 1837 by locating Quebec within new British practices of imperial governance asserted in the wake of the Seven Years War. Breaking with the conventional master-narrative of the era as one of gradual integration between French- and English-speaking communities, accompanied by incremental political and social liberalization, Nancy Christie presents the six decades following the Conquest as a period of assertive British strategies for assimilating Quebec's French and Catholic majority, and refurbished authoritarianism deployed to arrest the spread of revolution in the Atlantic world. Brilliantly advanced, this new narrative of post-Conquest Quebec builds upon entirely new research meticulously gleaned from over 20,000 cases from the criminal and civil judicial archives and a sustained examination of both official and unofficial political and social discourses."
Place
Oxford, England and New York, NY
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
2020
# of Pages
ix-432p.
Language
en
ISBN
978-0-19-885181-3
Citation
Christie, Nancy. The Formal and Informal Politics of British Rule in Post-Conquest Quebec, 1760-1837 : A Northern Bastille. Oxford, England and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.
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