Plunder, Profit, and Paroles

by George Sheppard

Sheppard demonstrates that the colony was a fragmented and pluralistic community before the war and remained so after it. Upper Canadians were divided by racial, religious, linguistic, and class differences and the majority of settlers had no strong ties to either the United States or Britain, with most men avoiding military service during the war. Reviewing the claims submitted for damages attributed to the fighting, he argues that British forces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511377
• ISBN13: 9780773511378
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.