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- Title
L'émeute de Lachine en 1812 : la coordination d'une contestation populaire.
- Authors
DESSUREAULT, CHRISTIAN
- Abstract
This article sets out to revisit an historical event that has already been studied, the 1812 Lachine riot, by emphasizing the role, social profile and networks of the principal actors in the event, a popular protest against militia conscription in the western part of Island of Montreal at the outset of the War of 1812. Existing studies devoted to the riot, while disagreeing on whether the participants were justified in their actions, all present Lachine as a rural society cut off from the nearby town, its ideas and its information networks. What is more, these studies generally fail to examine the mode of political organization and the leadership of a popular revolt of this kind. The peasantry's opposition to conscription is assumed to have been a spontaneous reaction on the part of inhabitants scarcely conscious of the wider implications of their actions. The alternative perspective proposed here involves focusing on the group coordinating the riot, some of whose members belonged to the local elite. The aim of the article is therefore to show how the protest was well organized and involved a hierarchy of groups. It was also open to wider horizons which extended beyond the local community.
- Subjects
LACHINE (Montreal, Quebec); MONTREAL (Quebec); QUEBEC (Province); CANADA; CANADIAN history, 1791-1841; RIOTS -- Social aspects; QUEBECOIS politics &; government; HISTORY
- Publication
Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, 2008, Vol 62, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0035-2357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/037523ar