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Violence, order, and unrest : a history of British North America, 1749-1876
\"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. Drawing on specific case studies of law and state formation in English and French Canada, Violence, Order, and Unrest considers patterns of settler colonialism across the century before Confederation. The result is a collection that brings together innovative research in different fields to reconsider the ideology, governance, and political culture that underpinned British North America. In the aftermath of Canada 150, Violence, Order, and Unrest offers a timely contribution to current debates over the nature of Canadian culture and history. It demonstrates that we cannot understand Canada today without considering its origins as a colonial project.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Creation of the British Atlantic World
Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religious agendas? The Creation of the British Atlantic World analyzes the interrelationship between these competing explanations for the development of the British Atlantic by examining migration patterns on both the macro and micro level. It also scrutinizes the roles played by trade, religion, ethnicity, and class in linking Atlantic borders and the increasingly complicated legal, intellectual and emotional relationship between the British sovereign and colonial charterholders.Contributors include Joyce E. Chaplin, John E. Crowley, David Barry Gaspar, April Lee Hatfield, James Horn, Ray A. Kea, Elizabeth Mancke, Philip D. Morgan, William M. Offutt, Robert Olwell, Carole Shammas, Wolfgang Splitter, Mark L. Thompson, Karin Wulf, Avihu Zakai.
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The 'Conquest' of Acadia, 1710
The conquest of Port-Royal by British forces in 1710 is an intensely revealing episode in the history of northeastern North America. Bringing together multi-layered perspectives, including the conquest's effects on aboriginal inhabitants, Acadians, and New Englanders, and using a variety of methodologies to contextualise the incident in local, regional, and imperial terms, six prominent scholars form new conclusions regarding the events of 1710. The authors show that the processes by which European states sought to legitimate their claims, and the terms on which mutual toleration would be granted or withheld by different peoples living side by side are especially visible in the Nova Scotia that emerged following the conquest. Important on both a local and global scale,The 'Conquest' of Acadiawill be a significant contribution to Acadian history, native studies, native rights histories, and the socio-political history of the eighteenth century.
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Intercolonial Cooperation and the Building of St. Paul Island and Scatarie Island Lighthouses, 1826-1840
Dans les années 1820, l'essor remarquable du commerce et de l'immigration transatlantiques donna lieu à de nombreux naufrages en Amérique du Nord britannique, où l'absence de phares côtiers dans les régions isolées posait un problème particulier. Des négociations débutèrent en 1826 entre les colonies maritimes, auxquelles s'ajouta le Bas-Canada, et le gouvernement impérial sur les moyens d'éclairer les côtes isolées, et le ministère des Colonies accepta en 1835 de financer la construction de phares sur les îles St. Paul et Scatarie, à l'entrée du golfe du Saint-Laurent, si les colonies finançaient leur entretien. Les trois phares et deux stations de sauvetage qui en résultèrent redéfinirent la sécurité de la navigation comme étant une responsabilité partagée entre les États impériaux et coloniaux dans le monde entier.
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