Searching Slavery Laws in British North America by Otto Vervaart

Classical World-Systems Analysis, the Historical Geography of British North America, and the Regional Politics of Colonial/Revolutionary New York by Jonathan Leitner

“…Yet classical WSA’s analytical questions about British North America’s independence movement have been more directly addressed by historical geographers. …”
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Giving peace to Europe: European geopolitics, colonial political culture, and the Hanoverian Monarchy in British North America, ca. 1740–63 by Robinson, D

THE CATHOLIC CLERGY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AREA, 1763-1830: PATTERNS OF DEVIANCY by Luca Codignola

Subjects: “…Priestly misbehavior - United States - British North America - Canada…”
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L’histoire Atlantique aux États-Unis : la périphérie au centre by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

“…Finally, we explain how this approach has considerably renewed the historiography of British North America.      …”
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Tsimshian Wil’naat’ał and Society: Historicising Tsimshian Social Organization by James A McDonald

“…The Indian Reserve system redefined ownership and shifted the corporate group from the Waap/House as recognized by Tsimshian ayaawx (common law) to the Indian Reserve Bands and villages as recognized under the British North America Act. This transformation conditions contemporary Tsimshian society. …”
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF CRUELTY THE ESCALATION OF SERVANT AND SLAVE ABUSE, 1750-1780 by Michael Kennedy

“…As the need for reliable labor sources increased in British North America during the 18th century, there was a rise in the numbers of servants and slaves imported. …”
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Jamaican legislation and the Transatlantic Constitution, 1664-1839 by Graham, A

“…There was very little though to distinguish the house of assembly from others in British North America, at least in legislative terms, and even after the traumatic imperial disjuncture of 1783 the reformed transatlantic constitution continued to provide a supportive environment for the expansion of legislation within the island of Jamaica.…”

Legacies of British Imperialism in the Contemporary UK Asylum–Welfare Nexus by Rachel Humphris

“…It explores how English colonial governance exported Poor Law legislation firstly to colonial America (USA) and secondly to British North America (Canada). It argues that these three countries are an Anglophone shared moral space of law and governance, revealing the common unresolved contradictions underpinning contemporary debates about who ‘deserves’ entry, under what conditions, and why. …”
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North American Counterterritoriality: Nineteenth-Century Black Activism and Alternative Legal Spatiality by Nele Sawallisch

“…<p class="Normal1">This contribution uses the terms “territoriality” and “legal spatiality” to consider how they shape our understanding of the significance of the North American border between the US and Canada (British North America) in the nineteenth century. It looks, first, at the ways in which Black intellectual leaders constructed Upper Canada as a counterterritory to the United States in the context of debating Black emigration by combining politics and geography to challenge conflicting territorialities. …”
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Are language rights fundamental by Green, L

“…The rights of linguistic and religious minorities were the only ones entrenched in the British North America Act that left the usual civil liberties to the protection of common law and party politics. …”

The Canadian Civil Wars of 1837–1838 by Phillip Buckner

“…Outside Lower Canada there was no widespread support for rebellion anywhere in British North America, except among a specific group of American immigrants and their descendants in Upper Canada. …”
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Canada – from its establishment until the modern day by Vitaliy Makar

“… This year Canada celebrated the 150thanniversary of its official establishment, when the Act of British North America came into force. However, the Dominion was established, the British Parliament retained the ability of limited control over Canada until 1982. …”
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“No Body to be Kicked?” Monopoly, Financial Crisis, and Popular Revolt in 18th-Century Haiti and America by Ghachem, Malick

“…This essay explores that commitment to the immateriality of the corporation through a discussion of the 18th-century revolt against the Indies Company in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and British North America. Opponents of the joint-stock monopoly in these Atlantic settings believed, like critics of transnational corporate power today, that the company form represented a merger of wealth and power operating to subvert the liberties of disenfranchised outsiders. …”
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Canadian civilization: the essence and features of its formation by Andrey N. Komarov

“…In the course of writing the work, the author analyzes the election programs of Canadian political parties, the British North America Act and other important sources. A positive role for the author in the process of writing his article was played by his familiarization with the existing theories of civilizations. …”
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Ports of empire: immigration, communication, and cholera in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 1830-1870 by Fowler, M, Madeline Fowler

“…The pressures of mass immigration from the British Isles, the transmission of highly-feared diseases from emigrant and cargo ships to port towns in British North America, and the dependence, vulnerability and constraints felt by colonial governments and their citizens are three important themes that emerge and are continually challenged throughout this dissertation. …”

The Fullness of Enslaved Black Lives as Seen through Early Massachusetts Vital Records by Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello

“…Emerging from a larger project to locate stories and histories of Black residents of one of the first colonized spaces in British North America, this article focuses on the ways in which the publicly available Massachusetts pre-1850 Vital Records—which have specific “Negroes” sections—serve as an unexpected source of useful, if fragmentary, evidence of not only individual lives, but collective histories of the communities in which Black ancestors lived. …”
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Canada’s Historical Search for Markets by David Bercuson

“…British North America enjoyed special privileges in trade as part of the British Empire until the late 1840s. …”
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