Revolution, Religion, and National Identity: Imperial Anglicanism in British North America, 1745-1795Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2000 - 336 pages This work seeks to put into religious and political context the British government's imperial religious policy for its North American colonies in the fifty years around the American Revolution. It is of special interest to students of North American and British constitutional, political, and religious history. |
Contents
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Religious Rivalry and the Struggle for Acadia 17321770 | 35 |
The Church of England and the Conquest of French Canada | 66 |
British Policy Dealing with the Catholic Church in Quebec 17631774 The Problem of the Roman Catholic Episcopate | 92 |
British Policy Dealing with the Roman Catholic Church in Canada 17631774 Continued The Quebec Act | 123 |
The Anglican Episcopacy Conflict in Context | 155 |
The Establishment of a Colonial High Church Episcopate | 210 |
The Constitutional Act of 1791 and the Establishment of the Anglican See of Quebec | 237 |
Conclusion | 261 |
Notes | 265 |
Bibliography | 302 |
Index | 327 |
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