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“As may consist with their Allegiance to His Majesty”: Redefining Loyal Subjects in 1774 / Hannah Weiss Muller -- The Quebec Act and the Canadiens: The Myth of the Seminal Moment / Donald Fyson -- Choosing between French and English Law: The Legal Origins of the Quebec Act / Michel Morin -- Quebec, Bengal, and the Rise of Authoritarian Legal Pluralism / Christian R. Burset -- Rethinking Ireland and Assimilation: Rethinking Ireland and Assimilation: Quebec, Collaboration, and the Heterogeneous Empire / Aaron Willis -- London’s Role in the Connection between the Holy See and North America, 1745-1812 / Luca Codignola -- A “Fit Instrument”: The Quebec Act and the Outbreak of Rebellion in Two British Atlantic Port Cities / Brad A. Jones -- Seeing Red: The Quebec Act and Its Geographic Implications / Jeffers Lennox -- “Our Concerns with Indians are now greatly extended”: Cherokees, Westward Indians, and Interpreting the Quebec Act from the Ohio Valley, 1763-1774 / Kristofer Ray -- The Quebec Act and the Aboriginal Land Issue in Canada / Alain Beaulieu. "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 from North America and Europe to explore this seminal event using a variety of historical approaches. Focusing on a singular occurence that had major social, legal, revolutionary, and imperial repercussions, the book weaves together perspectives from spatially and conceptually distinct historical fields --legal and cultural, political and religious, and beyond. Collectively, they resituate the Quebec Act in light of Atlantic, American, Canadian, Indigenous, and British Imperial historiographies. A transnational collaboration, Entangling the Quebec Act shows how the interconnectedness of national histories is visible at a single crossing point, illustrating the importance of intertwining methodologies to bring these connections into focus."--
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