Phillip Buckner, John G Reid

Revisiting 1759

The Conquest of Canada in Historical Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath using new approaches drawn from military, imperial, social, and Aboriginal history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781442612426
• ISBN-10: 1442612428
• Artikelnr.: 34462849

Autorenporträt

Phillip Buckner is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick and a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Contributors
IIntroduction
II'One more card to play': Revisiting Wolfe's Final Stratagem at Quebec
IIICrossing the Line? The British Army and the Application of European
'Rules of War' in North America in the Quebec Campaign
IVFalling into Oblivion? Canada and the French Monarchy, 1759-1783
V1759: The Perils of Success
VIThe Slow Process of Conquest: Huron-Wendat Responses to the Conquest of
Quebec, 1697-1791
VIIThe Consequences of Conquest: Quebec and British Politics, 1760-1774
VIIICommercial Interest and Political Allegiance: The Origins of the Quebec
Act
IXThe Conquered and the Conqueror: The Mutual Adaptation of the Canadiens
and the British, 1759-1775
X'Delivered from all your distresses': The Fall of Quebec and the Remaking
of Nova Scotia
XI'Cutting Heads from Shoulders': The Conquest of Quebec in Gaelic Thought,
1759-1791