Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Theorizing a Colonial Past 3
6. Agrarian Patriots
7. The Canadiens and British Institutions of Local Governance in Quebec from the Conquest to the Rebellions 45
8. “The Plague of Servants” 83
9. Revisiting Feudal Vestiges in Urban Quebec 133
10. Provincial Britons
11. How the Canadian Methodists Became British 159
12. The Dividends of Empire 199
13. Monitorial Schooling, “Common Christianity,” and Politics 251
14. A Laboratory of Modernity
15. Scottish-Trained Medical Practitioners in British North America and Their Participation in a Transatlantic Culture of Enlightenment 283
16. The Malthusian Moment 329
17. “Deserving of Favourable Consideration” 369
18. Popular Radicalism and the Theatrics of Rebellion 403
19. “The Original Idea Has Been Considerably Amplified” 439
20. Contributors 475