Transatlantic SubjectsTransatlantic Subjects dissents from four decades of scholarly writing on colonial Canada by taking the British imperial context rather than the North American environment as a conceptual framework for interpreting patterns of social and cultural life in the colonies prior to the 1850s. Anchored in "the new British history" advanced by J. G. A. Pocock, David Armitage, and Kathleen Wilson, this collective work explores ideas, institutions, and social