Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author's note
  • Introduction
  • Justice and order: the legal setting
  • The struggle for constitutional reform, 1784-1792
  • From promise to paranoia: the impact of the early French Revolution, 1789-1793
  • The security danger, 1793-1798
  • The garrison mentality
  • The garrison mentality and the administration of criminal justice, 1794-1797
  • The trial of David McLane, 1797
  • War's end and ethnic breakdown
  • The shadow of Napoleon in Lower Canada, 1803-1811
  • The garrison finds its leader: security and the governorship of Sir James Craig, 1807-1811
  • Craig's 'reign of terror, ' 1810-1811
  • Conclusions.