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    1. JACK LITTLE - books & articles on the Eastern Townships of Quebec
    2. Thought this might be of interest to our list. From Website: http://www.sfu.ca/history/little.htm John I. LITTLE, Professor PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS AND RECENT ARTICLES Appearing in 2004 is Borderland Religion: The Emergence of an English-Canadian Identity, 1792-1852 (University of Toronto Press). Jack Little's next projects include a volume on political conflict and protest in the Eastern Townships during the nineteenth century, and another on landscape perceptions in the same region. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS: 1. Nationalism, Capitalism, and Colonization in Nineteenth-Century Quebec: The Upper St Francis District (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989) (short list, Canadian Federation for the Humanities Prize). 2. Crofters and Habitants: Settler Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 1848-81 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991) (Winner of Le Prix Lionel-Groulx presented by l'Institut d'Histoire de l'Amérique française, and the Certificate of Merit in Regional History presented by the Canadian Historical Society, both for the best book of the year on Quebec History). 3. The Child Letters: Public and Private Life in a Canadian Merchant-Politician's Family, 1841-1845 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995) . 4. State and Society in Transition: The Politics of Institutional Change in the Eastern Townships, 1838-52 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997) (Short list, Harold Adams Innis Prize, Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme.) 5. Love Strong as Death: Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833-36 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001). ARTICLES (since 1992): "Millenarian Invasion: Millerism in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada," in Anglo-American Millenarianism: From Milton to the Millerites, edited by Richard Connors and Andrew Gow (E.J. Brill Press, Studies in the History of the Christian Tradition, in press). "The Peddler's Tale: Radical Religion and Family Marginality in the Journal of Ralph Merry, 1804-1863," in On the Margins of the Family, edited by Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004). "In the Desert Places of the Wilderness': The Frontier Thesis and the Anglican Church in the Eastern Townships, 1799-1831," Histoire Sociale/Social History, 36(2003):31-53. "Canadian Pastoral: Promotional Images of British Colonization in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships during the 1830s," Journal of Historical Geography, 29, 2 (2003):189-211. "The Methodistical Way: Revivalism and Popular Resistance To Wesleyan Church Discipline in the Stanstead Circuit, Lower Canada, 1821-51," Studies in Religion / Etudes Religieuses, 31, no.2 (2002):171-94. "Revivalism Rejected: Protestantism in Sherbrooke during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century", Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, No. 21 (Fall 2002): 27-46. "The Mental World of Ralph Merry: A Case Study of Popular Religion in the Eastern Townships, 1798-1863," Canadian Historical Review, 83 (2002): 338-63. "The Naturalist's Landscape: Philip Henry Gosse in the Eastern Townships, 1835-38," Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, 20 (Spring 2002): 59-74. "The Fireside Kingdom: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglican Perspective on Marriage and Parenthood," in Nancy Christie, Ed., Households of Faith: Family, Gender, and Community in Canada, 1760-1969 (McGill-Queen's University Press), 2002; "A Crime 'Shrouded in Mystery': State, Church, and Community in the Kinnear's Mills Post Office Case, 1899-1905," Histoire sociale / Social History, 34 (2001): 1-34. "A Canadian in Lowell: Labour, Manhood and Independence in the Early Industrial Era, 1840-1849," edited document with introduction, Labour / Le Travail, 48 (2001): 197-263. "From the Isle of Arran to Inverness Township: A Case Study of Highland Emigration and North American Settlement, 1829-34," Scottish Economic and Social History, 20 (2000): 3-30. "Agricultural Improvement and Highland Clearance: The Isle of Arran, 1766-29," Scottish Economic and Social History, 19 (1999): 132-54. "Gender and Gentility on the Lower Canadian Frontier: Lucy Peel's Journal, 1833-36," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, NS 10 (1999): 59-80. "Contested Land: Squatters and Agents in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada," Canadian Historical Review, 80 (1999): 381-412. "'Labouring in a Great Cause': Marcus Child as Pioneer School Inspector in Lower Canada's Eastern Townships, 1852-59," Historical Studies in Education, 10, nos. 1 and 2 (1998): 85-115. "School Reform and Community Control in the 1840s: A Case Study from the Eastern Townships," Historical Studies in Education, 9 (1997): 153-64. "A Moral Engine of Such Incalculable Power: The Temperance Movement in the Eastern Townships, 1830-52," Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, 11 (Fall 1997): 5-38. "'Serving the North East Corner of Creation': The Community Role of a Rural Minister in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, 1829-70," Histoire sociale / Social History, 30 (1997): 21-54. "The Bard in a Community in Transition and Decline: Oscar Dhu and the Hebridean Scots of the Upper St Francis District, Quebec," Canadian Papers in Rural History, 10 (1996): 45-80. "Popular Voices in Print: The Local Newspaper Correspondents of an Extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894," Journal of Canadian Studies, 30, 3 (1995): 134-55. "Popular Resistance to Legal Authority in the Upper St Francis District of Quebec: The Megantic Outlaw Affair of 1888-89," Labour / Le Travail, 33 (Spring 1994): 97-124. "The Short Life of a Local Protest Movement: The Annexation Crisis of 1849-50 in the Eastern Townships," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, NS no. 2 (1992): 45-67. "British Toryism 'amidst a horde of disaffected and disloyal squatters': The Rise and Fall of William Bowman Felton in the Eastern Townships," Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, 1 (Fall 1992): 13-42. "Ethnicity, Family Structure, and Seasonal Labour Strategies on Quebec's Appalachian Frontier, 1852-1881," Journal of Family History, 18 (1992): 289-302.

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