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Entangling the Quebec ACT: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire

Entangling the Quebec ACT: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire

Hubert, Ollivier
Furstenberg, François

Paperback

Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Early Canada / Avant Le Canada, Book 2

Canadian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0228003903
ISBN13: 9780228003908
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Dec 30 2020
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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