Toronto University Press has published an edited
collection on the history of British North America between 1749-1876, and which
includes several legal-historical contributions.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This edited
collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on
cutting-edge research in a number of fields, Violence, Order, and
Unrest explores the development of British North America from the
mid-eighteenth century through the aftermath of Confederation. The chapters
cover an ambitious range of topics, from Indigenous culture to municipal
politics, public executions to runaway slave advertisements. Cumulatively, this
book examines the diversity of Indigenous and colonial experiences across
northern North America and provides fresh perspectives on the crucial roles of
violence and unrest in attempts to establish British authority in Indigenous
territories. In the aftermath of Canada 150, Violence, Order, and
Unrestoffers a timely contribution to current debates over the nature of
Canadian culture and history, demonstrating that we cannot understand Canada
today without considering its origins as a colonial project.
ABOUT THE
EDITORS
Elizabeth
Mancke is Canada Research Chair in Atlantic
Canada Studies in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick.
Jerry Bannister teaches History and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie
University.
Denis McKim teaches in the History Department at Douglas College.
Scott W. See is Libra Professor Emeritus and former chair of the
University of Maine’s History Department.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Maps
Introduction
Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See
Section
I: Loyalty, Liberty, and Visions of Order
1.
Aspirations and Limitations: "Peace, Order, and Good Government" and
the Language of Violence and Disorder in British North America
Scott W. See
2. Loyalty,
Order, and Quebec’s Catholic Hierarchy, 1763–1867
D.C. Bélanger
3. Anxious
Anglicans, Complicated Catholics, and Disruptive Dissenters: Christianity and
the Search for Social Order in the Age of Revolution
Denis McKim
4. Liberty,
Loyalty, and Sentiment in Canada’s Founding Debates, 1864–1873
Jerry Bannister
Section
II: From Tory Imperialism to Liberal Settler Colonialism
5.
Revolution Expected: The Invasion of Quebec and American Independence
Jeffers Lennox
6. Empire,
Settler Colonialism, and the Role of Violence in Indigenous Dispossession in
British North America, 1749–1830
John G. Reid
7. Space,
Race, and Violence: The Beginnings of Civilization in Canada
E.A. Heaman
8. Worthy
and Industrious or a Burden? Managing Migration in Upper Canada, 1815–1845
Section
III: Resisting Dispossession
9.
Searching for Order in a Settlers’ World: Wendat and Mississauga Schooling,
Politics and Networks at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Thomas Peace
10. Runaway
Advertisements and Social Disorder in the Maritimes: A Preliminary Study
Harvey Amani Whitfield
11. The
Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the
Nineteenth-Century Plains
Émilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny
12. "We
are men not Buffalos": Louis Riel and the Gendering of the Red River
Public Sphere
M. Max Hamon
Section
IV: Legitimating and Contesting the Public Sphere
13.
Discontents and Dissidents: Unrest amongst Loyalist Freemasons in the 1780s and
90s
Bonnie Huskins
14. Of
Bludgeons and Ballots: Political Violence, Municipal Enfranchisement, and Local
Governance in Mid-Nineteenth- Century Montreal
Colin Grittner
15. Boys,
Young Men, and Disorder in a Mid-Victorian City
Ian Radforth
16.
"To muse within these peaceful portals": Urban Space, Public Order,
and the Makings of Montreal’s Viger Square, 1818–1870
Dan Horner
Section
V: Tools of Social Order: The Law and the Press
17. The
Spectacle of State Violence: Executions in Quebec, 1759–1872
Donald Fyson
18. Making
a Patriot Order: Violence, Respectability, and the Patriot Press in Exile,
1838–1847
Stephen R.I. Smith
19. The
Ambivalence of Order: Jurisdiction in the Disputed Northeast
Bradley Miller
20. For the
Better Administration of the Town’s Affairs: Civic Engagement, Local
Governance, and Grassroots Activism in Canada West/Ontario, 1849–1870
Darren Ferry
21. The
Role of Newspapers in Halifax during the Confederate and the Repeal Movements,
1865–69
Mathias Rodorff
Epilogue
Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See
