Specializing in the social and legal history of Quebec, Brian Young taught in McGill’s History Department from 1975 until his retirement in 2009. His awards include a Killam Research Fellowship and le Prix Gérard Parizeau. In 2010, he received the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies. He is presently James McGill Professor of History (emeritus). A founding member of the Montreal History Group, a research collective based in the History Department, his research interests centre on the social and cultural experience of the nineteenth-century élite.

Books by Brian J. Young

Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords

Respectable Burial

A Short History of Quebec

Politics of Codification, The

In Its Corporate Capacity