Description |
1 online resource (viii, 194 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Series |
Histories of the Scottish Atlantic |
Contents |
Introduction. 1. Colonial Legacies -- 2. British Colonisation in an Atlantic Canadian Context -- Part One. Dispossession and Settlement. 3. Barren Icy Rocks or a Nursery of Seamen? Debating Nova Scotia and Ideologies of Empire in the Era of the American Revolution -- 4. Leaving Nova Scotia: Sierra Leone and the Free Black People, 1792-1800 -- 5. New World, Old Problems? Aristocratic Influences on Colonial Governance and Land in Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Canada -- Part Two. Religion and Identity. 6. Catholic Highland Scots and the Colonisation of Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island, 1772-1830 |
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7. The Church of England, Print Networks and the Book of Common Prayer in Atlantic Canada, c.1750-c.1830 -- 8. 'For Christ and Covenant': Scottish Presbyterian Dissent and Early Political Reform in Nova Scotia, 1803-1832 -- Part Three. Reappraising Memory. 9. Fenian Ghosts: The Spectre of Irish Republicanism in Ethnic Relations in Newfoundland -- 10. Cosmopolitan Engagements: Class, Place and Diplomacy in the Gulf of St Lawrence Fisheries, 1815-1854 -- 11. The Mi'kmaq, the Pattersons and Remembering the Scottish Colonisation of Nova Scotia -- Index |
Summary |
This collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada, a region that was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between 1750 and 1930 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on June 19, 2020) |
Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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British colonies
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Colonization
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Historiography
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SUBJECT |
Atlantic Provinces -- History
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Atlantic Provinces -- Historiography
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Atlantic Provinces -- Colonization
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Maritime Provinces -- History
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056660
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Canada -- Colonization
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Subject |
America
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Canada
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Canada -- Atlantic Provinces
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Maritime Provinces
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kehoe, S. Karly, editor.
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Vance, Michael E. (Michael Easton), 1959- editor.
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ISBN |
9781474459051 |
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1474459056 |
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