About the Author:
Barry Craig is an Associate Professor in the department of philosophy at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

This book illuminates on part of the great societal change that occurred in the nineteenth century as the British Empire both reached its apex and began to be transformed into diverse independent political entites. The roe of the church and religion in this imperial enterprise and in subsequent movements toward independence is central to an understanding of this process. As an experiment, W.E. Gladstone, sometime Prime Minister of England and keen churchman, arranged to appoint a member of the controversial Tractarian party to the Episcopal bench. Because such a move was politically and ecclesiastically dangerous in England, Bishop John Medley was sent to the colonies. Medley became convinced that over the course of his forty-seven-year episcopate that the American model of the church was more practical than the British. He played a major role in developing a modern, pluralistic, Canadian civil society.

The FDU Press has particular strengths in literary studies, world history and politics, biography, film, ethnic studies, sociology, the Civil War, art, religion, local history, and urban studies.