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ABOUT THE BOOK :
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
occurrence 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, the contributors 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.
An eBook Coming Soon
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