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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Elizabeth Mancke. The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, Ca. 1760–1830. (New World in the Atlantic World.) New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xi, 214. Cloth $85.00, paper $27.95.

In this excellent book, Elizabeth Mancke reminds us of the differences between British Atlantic colonies founded in the seventeenth century and those acquired by war and treaty in the eighteenth, such as Nova Scotia and Canada. The governments of these later colonies "were established after the Glorious Revolution (1688–1689) and development of the Crown-in-Parliament, and thus colonists could not claim a constitutional autonomy from Parliament and an allegiance to the Crown alone in the way the people in the older colonies did" (p. 5). Mancke shows how this fundamental distinction shaped the two communities of Machias, at the far northern edge of Massachusetts, and Liverpool, on the south shore of Nova Scotia, in the last four decades of the eighteenth century. The case is interesting because these two British Atlantic communities were very similar in terms of founding populations and geographic location. The author examines in illuminating detail patterns of land distribution, structures of local government, systems of church organization, and responses to the American Revolution. In so doing, she explains why Machias ended up joining the challenge of the thirteen colonies to the novel (for them) claims of British parliamentary power whereas Liverpool accepted a continuing existence within the crown-in-parliament empire. What appears to be a local study of two communities, which had a combined population of only 1,832 people in 1790, turns out to be a monograph that deals with some of the most significant features of the British Atlantic world.

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