Entangling the Quebec Act: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire

Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is understood as a formative moment - indeed part of the "textbook narrative" - in several different national histories, the Quebec Act remains underexamined in all of them.

The first sustained examination of the act in nearly thirty years, Entangling the Quebec Act brings together essays by historians fro...