Québec City, 1765-1832
Title | Québec City, 1765-1832 PDF eBook |
Author | David T. Ruddel |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1772824046 |
This book provides a synthesis of social, demographic and economic change in Quebec City during the British regime, a period which saw the former French capital transformed into an English city with all the problems associated with rapidly growing urban centres.
The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony
Title | The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony PDF eBook |
Author | Mark R. Anderson |
Publisher | UPNE |
Pages | 457 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1611684978 |
An unparalleled look at AmericaÍs Revolutionary War invasion of Canada
Québec City, 1765-1832
Title | Québec City, 1765-1832 PDF eBook |
Author | David-Thiery Ruddel |
Publisher | Canadian Museum of History |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This book provides a synthesis of social, demographic, and economic change in Quebec during the British regime, a period that saw the former French capital transformed into an English city, possessing all the problems associated with rapidly growing urban centres. It describes the site and the historical context; the population and society; the international, rural, and urban economy; local administration; and the urban environment. Data relating to the economy, the relationships between anglophones and francophones, housing, the justice system, and the population are included.
Anonyms
Title | Anonyms PDF eBook |
Author | William Cushing |
Publisher | Georg Olms Verlag AG |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Resisting Independence
Title | Resisting Independence PDF eBook |
Author | Brad A. Jones |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2021-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501754025 |
In Resisting Independence, Brad A. Jones maps the loyal British Atlantic's reaction to the American Revolution. Through close study of four important British Atlantic port cities—New York City; Kingston, Jamaica; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Glasgow, Scotland—Jones argues that the revolution helped trigger a new understanding of loyalty to the Crown and empire. This compelling account reimagines Loyalism as a shared transatlantic ideology, no less committed to ideas of liberty and freedom than the American cause and not limited to the inhabitants of the thirteen American colonies. Jones reminds readers that the American Revolution was as much a story of loyalty as it was of rebellion. Loyal Britons faced a daunting task—to refute an American Patriot cause that sought to dismantle their nation's claim to a free and prosperous Protestant empire. For the inhabitants of these four cities, rejecting American independence thus required a rethinking of the beliefs and ideals that framed their loyalty to the Crown and previously drew together Britain's vast Atlantic empire. Resisting Independence describes the formation and spread of this new transatlantic ideology of Loyalism. Loyal subjects in North America and across the Atlantic viewed the American Revolution as a dangerous and violent social rebellion and emerged from twenty years of conflict more devoted to a balanced, representative British monarchy and, crucially, more determined to defend their rights as British subjects. In the closing years of the eighteenth century, as their former countrymen struggled to build a new nation, these loyal Britons remained convinced of the strength and resilience of their nation and empire and their place within it.
Peasant, Lord, and Merchant
Title | Peasant, Lord, and Merchant PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Greer |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780802065780 |
Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in Lower Richelieu valley Sorel, St Ours, and St Denis from 1740 to 1840. He finds a pronounced pattern of household self-sufficiency; as in other peasant societies, the habitants lived mainly from produce grown throught their own efforts on their own lands. How the family-based economy operated and how the household was reproduced over the generations through marriage, birth, inheritance, and colonization, together form a major focus of this study.
William E. Logan's 1845 survey of the Upper Ottawa Valley
Title | William E. Logan's 1845 survey of the Upper Ottawa Valley PDF eBook |
Author | Charles H. Smith |
Publisher | University of Ottawa Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 177282416X |
This volume presents the 1845 field journal of pioneering geologist Sir William Edmond Logan, written on an expedition up the Ottawa River. The journal is sprinkled with fascinating stories of daily life during the expedition, supplemented with Logan’s sketches. An introductory essay provides added insight into the work.