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Title Revisiting 1759 : the conquest of Canada in historical perspective / edited by Phillip Buckner and John G. Reid
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)
Contents ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 �One more card to play�: Revisiting Wolfe�s Final Stratagem at Quebec""; ""3 Crossing the Line? The British Army and the Application of European �Rules of War� in the Quebec Campaign""; ""4 Falling into Oblivion? Canada and the French Monarchy, 1759�1783""; ""5 1759: The Perils of Success""; ""6 The Slow Process of Conquest: Huron-Wendat Responses to the Conquest of Quebec, 1697�1791""; ""7 The Consequences of the Conquest: Quebec and British Politics, 1760�1774""
""8 Commercial Interest and Political Allegiance: The Origins of the Quebec Act""""9 The Conquered and the Conqueror: The Mutual Adaptation of the Canadiens and the British in Quebec, 1759�1775""; ""10 �Delivered from all your distresses�: The Fall of Quebec and the Remaking of Nova Scotia""; ""11 �Cutting heads from shoulders�: The Conquest of Canada in Gaelic Thought, 1759�1791""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Summary Revisiting 1759 provides a fresh historical reappraisal of the Conquest and its aftermath using new approaches drawn from military, imperial, social, and Aboriginal history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Québec Campaign, Québec, 1759.
Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, Québec, 1759.
HISTORY -- Canada -- Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Canada -- History -- 1763-1791.
Canada
Québec
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Buckner, Phillip A. (Phillip Alfred), 1942-
Reid, John G. (John Graham), 1948-
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