The Legacies of Fear: Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution

by F. Murray Greenwood

Book Overview

Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood re-creates a Quebec in which trust between French and English Canadians was an early casualty of the execution of Louis XVI and the descent of the French Revolution through terror into war. Fearing invasion, the English community, through the law officers of the crown, drafted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802069746
• ISBN13: 9780802069740
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"