Table of Contents
Foreword J.G.A. Pocock vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Theorizing a Colonial Past: Canada as a Society of British Settlement Nancy Christie 3
Part 1 Agrarian Patriots
The Canadiens and British Institutions of Local Governance in Quebec from the Conquest to the Rebellions Donald Fyson 45
"The Plague of Servants": Female Household Labour and the Making of Classes in Upper Canada Nancy Christie 83
Revisiting Feudal Vestiges in Urban Quebec Brian Young 133
Part 2 Provincial Britons
How the Canadian Methodists Became British: Unity, Schism, and Transatlantic Identity, 1827-54 Todd Webb 159
The Dividends of Empire: Church Establishments and Contested British Identities in the Canadas and the Maritimes, 1780-1850 Michael Gauvreau 199
Monitorial Schooling, "Common Christianity," and Politics: A Transatlantic Controversy Bruce Curtis 251
Part 3 A Laboratory of Modernity
Scottish-Trained Medical Practitioners in British North America and Their Participation in a Transatlantic Culture of Enlightenment Michael Eamon 283
The Malthusian Moment: British Travellers and the Vindication of Economic Liberalism in the Maritime Countryside Jeffrey L. McNairn 329
"Deserving of Favourable Consideration": Crown Land Agents, Surveyours, and Access to Crown Lands in Upper Canada Michelle Vosburgh 369
Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion: The Hybrid Discourse of Dissent in Upper Canada in the 1830s Bryan Palmer 403
"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 439
Contributors475
