BOOKS
Epics of Disaffection: The Dissenting Histories of Tolkien, Tolstoy, and E. P. Thompson. Baltimore, 2022
Getting It Wrong: How Canadians Forgot Their Past and Imperilled Confederation. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999
(Scholarly edition, with Janet Ajzenstat, Ian Gentles and William Gairdner) Canada’s Founding Debates. Toronto: Stoddart, 1999
(Scholarly edition, with A. B. McKillop) S. F. Wise (author), God’s Peculiar Peoples: Essays on Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Canada. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1993
Mr. Attorney: The Attorney General for Ontario in Court, Cabinet and Legislature, 1791-1899. Toronto: The Osgoode Society / University of Toronto Press, 1986
(Scholarly edition) The Diary of Charles Fothergill, 1805: An Itinerary to York, Flamborough and the North-Western Dales of Yorkshire. Leeds, England: Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, vol. 142, 1984
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS: LITERARY
“‘A Particular Phase of History’: Time Travel, Temporal Ambiguity, and the Pattern of History in The Lord of the Rings.” Lembas 36 (Oct. 2016), 101-14
“‘Great Chords’: Politics and Romance in Tolstoy’s War and Peace.” University of Toronto Quarterly, 80 (2011), 49-77
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS: HISTORICAL
(with Barry Wright) “The Toronto Treason Trials, March-May 1838.” In F. Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright, ed., Canadian State Trials, Vol. II: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839. Toronto: The Osgoode Society / University of Toronto Press, 2002, 62-99
“Provincial Equality, Special Status and the Compact Theory of Canadian Confederation.” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 32 (1999), 3-21
“The Administration of Justice in Ontario, 1784-1900.” Manitoba Law Journal, 23 (1996), pp. 183- 213. Reprinted in DeLloyd J. Guth and W. Wesley Pue, ed., Canada’s Legal Inheritances (Winnipeg: Canadian Legal History Project, Faculty of Law, The University of Manitoba, 2001), 183-213
“Upper Canada in the 1820s: Criminal Prosecutions, Criminal Libel and the Case of Francis Collins.” In F. Murray Greenwood and Barry Wright, ed., Canadian State Trials, Vol. I: Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608-1837. Toronto: The Osgoode Society / University of Toronto Press, 1996, 505-21, 703-24
(with Barry Wright) “State Trials and Security Proceedings during the War of 1812.” In ibid., 379-405, 661-82
“Rebel as Magistrate: William Lyon Mackenzie and His Enemies.” In Jim Phillips, Susan Lewthwaite and Tina Loo, ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law, vol. 6 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society / University of Toronto Press, 1994), 324-52
“Why Lord Watson Was Right.” In Janet Ajzenstat, ed., Canadian Constitutionalism, 1791-1991 (Ottawa: Canadian Study of Parliament Group, n.d. [1993]), 177-93
“The Nature and Scope of Provincial Autonomy: Oliver Mowat, the Quebec Resolutions, and the Construction of the British North America Act.” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 25 (1992), 3-28
“From Railway Construction to Constitutional Construction: John Wellington Gwynne’s National Dream.” Manitoba Law Journal, 20 (1991), pp. 91-106. Reprinted in Dale Gibson and W. Wesley Pue, ed., Glimpses of Canadian Legal History (Winnipeg: Legal Research Institute of the University of Manitoba, 1991), 95-110
“On the Eve of the Rebellion: Nationality, Religion and Class in the Toronto Election of 1836.” In David Keane and Colin Read, ed., Old Ontario: Essays in Honour of J. M. S. Careless (Toronto: Dundum Press, 1990), 192-216
“From Constitutionalism to Legalism: Trial by Jury, Responsible Government and the Rule of Law in the Canadian Political Culture.” Law and History Review, 7 (1989), 121-74
“From the Rule of Law to Responsible Government: Ontario Political Culture and the Roots of Canadian Statism.” In Canadian Historical Association, Historical Papers, 1988 (Ottawa, 1989), 86-119
“Re-inventing Upper Canada: American Immigrants, Upper Canadian History, English Law and the Alien Question.” In Patterns of the Past: Interpreting Ontario History, ed. Roger Hall, William Westfall and Laurel Sefton McDowell (Toronto: Dundum Press, 1988), 78-107
“Very Late Loyalist Fantasies: Nostalgic Tory ‘History’ and the Rule of Law in Upper Canada.” In Canadian Perspectives on Law and Society: Issues in Legal History, ed. W. Wesley Pue and Barry Wright (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988), 119-47
“From the Types Riot to the Rebellion: Elite Ideology, Anti-legal Sentiment, Political Violence and the Rule of Law in Upper Canada.” Ontario History, 79 (1987), 113-44
“A Conservative Reformer in Upper Canada: Charles Fothergill, Responsible Government and the ‘British Party,’ 1824-1840.” In Canadian Historical Association, Historical Papers, 1984 (Ottawa, 1985), 42-62
“A Struggle for Authority: Toronto Society and Politics in 1834.” In Victor L. Russell, ed., Forging a Consensus: Historical Essays on Toronto (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), 9-40
“The Spanish Freeholder Imbroglio of 1824: Inter-Elite and Intra-Elite Rivalry in Upper Canada.” Ontario History, 76 (1984), 32-47
“‘The Ten Thousand Pound Job’: Political Corruption, Equitable Jurisdiction and the Public Interest in Upper Canada, 1852-6.” In David H. Flaherty, ed. Essays in the History of Canadian Law, vol. 2 (Toronto: The Osgoode Society / University of Toronto Press, 1983), 143-99
“William Lyon Mackenzie as Mayor of Toronto.” Canadian Historical Review, 56 (1975), 416-436. “The Ordeal of William Higgins.” Ontario History, 67 (1975), 68-89. Reprinted in Law Society of Upper Canada Gazette, 9 (1975)
DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY
Robert Randal, 6: 628-33; John Matthews, 6: 496-9; Charles Fothergill, 7: 317-21; Joseph Cawthra, 7: 163-4; Christopher Widmer, 8: 931-6; Daniel Sullivan, 11: 863-4; Sir Oliver Mowat, 13: 724-42; John Wellington Gwynne, 13: 426-9
Paul Romney 