Transatlantic Subjects: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America

by Nancy Christie

Transatlantic Subjects dissents from four decades of scholarly writing on colonial Canada by taking the British imperial context - rather than the North American environment - as a conceptual framework for interpreting patterns of social and cultural life in the colonies prior to the 1850s. Anchored in "the new British history" advanced by J.G.A. Pocock, David Armitage, and Kathleen Wilson, this collective work explores ideas, institutions, and social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773533885
• ISBN13: 9780773533882
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"