Violence, Order, and Unrest : A History of British North America, 1749-1876 / Denis B. McKim, Jerry Bannister, Elizabeth Mancke, Scott W. See.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bannister, Jerry, editor.

Mancke, Elizabeth, editor.

McKim, Denis B., editor.

See, Scott W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Canada.

Violence.

Violence--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (534 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 brings together innovative research in different fields to reconsider the ideology, governance, and political culture that underpinned British North America. The contributors offer a unique take on Canadian culture and history, demonstrating that we cannot understand Canada today without considering its origins as a colonial project.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction / Mancke, Elizabeth / Bannister, Jerry / McKim, Denis / See, Scott W.

Section I: Loyalty, Liberty, and Visions of Order

1. Aspirations and Limitations: "Peace, Order, and Good Government" and the Language of Violence and Disorder in British North America / See, Scott W.

2. Loyalty, Order, and Quebec's Catholic Hierarchy, 1763-1867 / Bélanger, D.C.

3. Anxious Anglicans, Complicated Catholics, and Disruptive Dissenters: Christianity and the Search for Social Order in the Age of Revolution / McKim, Denis

4. Liberty, Loyalty, and Sentiment in Canada's Founding Debates, 1864-1873 / Bannister, Jerry

Section II: From Tory Imperialism to Liberal Settler Colonialism

5. Revolution Expected: The Invasion of Quebec and American Independence / Lennox, Jeffers

6. Empire, Settler Colonialism, and the Role of Violence in Indigenous Dispossession in British North America, 1749-1830 / Reid, John G.

7. Space, Race, and Violence: The Beginnings of "Civilization" in Canada / Heaman, E.A.

8. Worthy and Industrious or a Burden? Managing Migration in Upper Canada, 1815-1845 / Errington, Jane

Section III: Resisting Dispossession

9. Searching for Order in a Settlers' World: Wendat and Mississauga Schooling, Politics, and Networks at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century / Peace, Thomas

10. Runaway Advertisements and Social Disorder in the Maritimes: A Preliminary Study / Whitfield, Harvey Amani

11. The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century Plains / Pigeon, Émilie / Podruchny, Carolyn

12. "Recognize Us as a People and Not as Buffaloes": Louis Riel and the Gendering of the Red River Public Sphere / Hamon, M. Max

Section IV: Legitimating and Contesting the Public Sphere

13. Discontents and Dissidents: Unrest among Loyalist Freemasons in the 1780s and 1790s / Huskins, Bonnie

14. Of Bludgeons and Ballots: Political Violence, Municipal Enfranchisement, and Local Governance in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal / Grittner, Colin

15. Boys, Young Men, and Disorder in Mid-Victorian Toronto / Radforth, Ian

16. "To Muse within These Peaceful Portals": Urban Space, Public Order, and the Makings of Montreal's Viger Square, 1818-1870 / Horner, Dan

Section V: Tools of Social Order: The Law and the Press

17. The Spectacle of State Violence: Executions in Quebec, 1759-1872 / Fyson, Donald

18. Making a Patriot Order: Violence, Respectability, and the Patriot Press in Exile, 1838-1847 / Smith, Stephen R.I.

19. The Ambivalence of Order: Jurisdiction in the Disputed Northeast / Miller, Bradley

20. For the Better Administration of the Town's Affairs: Civic Engagement, Local Governance, and Grass-Roots Activism in Canada West / Ontario, 1849-1870 / Ferry, Darren

21. The Role of Halifax Newspapers during the Confederate and the Repeal Movements, 1865-1869 / Rodorff, Mathias

Epilogue / Mancke, Elizabeth / Bannister, Jerry / McKim, Denis / See, Scott W.

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-3161-3

1-4875-3160-5

OCLC:

1099434475