Cover

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

McGee Family Tree

Introduction

1 A New Northern Nationality: May – November 1857

PART ONE: THE REFORM ALLIANCE

2 A Twofold Dilemma: December 1857 – August 1858

3 An Open Debatable Space: August 1858 – November 1859

4 The Shield of Achilles: December 1859 – March 1861

5 Democracy Armed and Insolent: April 1861 – May 1862

6 A False Position: June 1862 – May 1863

PART TWO: CONSERVATISM AND CONFEDERATION

7 A Constitutional Conservative: June 1863 – February 1864

8 This Extraordinary Armistice: March 1864 – May 1865

PART THREE: FENIANISM

9 The Goula of Griffintown: March 1864 – May 1865

10 Uncertainty and Instability: May – December 1865

11 The Brethren of Sedition: December 1865 – May 1866

12 Those Men Deserve Death: June 1866 – January 1867

13 Moral Courage: February – September 1867

14 The Most Critical Period: October 1867 – April 1868

PART FOUR: ASSASSINATION

15 A Chain of Circumstantial Evidence

16 The Grip of Suspicion

17 Mutations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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