Proofs of Empire, Volume II
The Provinces Rise
The Second Proof
Fifty years after conquest, the old provinces learn that obedience and belonging were never the same thing.
Synopsis
The Provinces Rise begins under civic varnish: ceremonies, railways, courts, schools, tariff talk, and public loyalty. Then the American Civil War opens the old wound. The conquered Canadas do not rise as one clean body. Priests, editors, smugglers, families, merchants, clerks, soldiers, and frightened households all discover that rebellion begins as a thousand local decisions before it becomes a country in ink.
What kind of book is this?
Alternate-history fiction in the Atlas of Empire universe, built around roads, records, institutions, war, memory, and the long afterlife of political choices.