Transatlantic subjects : ideas, institutions, and social experience in post-revolutionary British North America /
Christie, Nancy,1958-
Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: theorizing a colonial past: Canada as a society of British settlement / Nancy Christie -- The Canadiens and British institutions of local governance in Quebec from the conquest to the rebellions / Donald Fyson -- The plaque of servants": female household labour and the making of classes in upper Canada / Nancy Christie -- Revisiting feudal vestiges in urban Quebec / Brian Young -- How the Canadian Methodists became British: unity, schism, and transatlantic identity, 1827-54 / Todd Webb -- The dividends of empire: church establishments and contested British identities in the Canada and the Maritimes, 1780- 1850 / Michael Gauvreau -- Monitorial schooling, "common Christianity," and politics: a transatlantic controversy / Bruce Curtis -- Scottish-trained medical practitioners in British North America and their participation in a transatlantic culture of enlightenment / Michael Eamon -- The Malthusian moment: British travellers and the vindication of economic liberalism in the Maritime countryside / Jeffrey L. McNairn -- "Deserving of favourable consideration": crown land agents, surveyors, and access to crown land in Upper Canada / Michelle Vosburgh -- Popular radicalism and the theatrics of rebellion: the hybrid discourse of dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830s / 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 / Darren Ferry