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Lower Canada occupied a strategic position in Britain's policies for the defence, trade and settlement of British North America. The smooth development of these three interests was threatened by the autonomist ambitions of the colony's French-speaking (Canadien) leaders. Between…

This dissertation investigates an understudied form of mandatory labor, referred to as corvée, that was introduced by the French to Canada, but later exploited by the British. Rooted in the feudal obligations of peasants to aristocratic landowners, corvée was adapted to the Amer…

Islamic law has changed radically in the last 150 years this project focusses on the dramatic transformation of Islamic law during the British colonial period in three cases: India, Malaya and Egypt, and its effects in the post-colonial state. It argues that colonial and local e…