| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Nation and Diversity, 1920-1939 | |
| Commentary | p. 65 |
| The Purpose of the Past | |
| Some Vices of Clio (1926) | p. 71 |
| The Beginnings of Historical Criticism in Canada: A Retrospect, 1896-1936 (1936) | p. 73 |
| Past Historians and Present History in Canada (1941) | p. 77 |
| Dollard des Ormeaux and the Fight at the Long Sault: A Reinterpretation of Dollard's Exploit (1932) | p. 80 |
| Was Dollard the Saviour of New France? (1932) | p. 82 |
| Women of New France (Three Rivers: 1651-63) (1940) | p. 84 |
| The Historian and Society (1933) | p. 87 |
| The Historian and Society (1933) | p. 90 |
| Defining the Canadian Nation | |
| Canada and the Imperial War Cabinet (1920) | p. 93 |
| The Growth of Canadian National Feeling (1920) | p. 99 |
| Canada as a Vassal State (1920) | p. 101 |
| Nationalism and Self-Determination (1921) | p. 104 |
| Canada's Relations with the Empire as Seen by the Toronto Globe, 1857-1867 (1929) | p. 107 |
| Some American Influences upon the Canadian Federation Movement (1924) | p. 110 |
| The Struggle for Financial Control in Lower Canada, 1818-1831 (1931) | p. 112 |
| Canadian Migration in the Forties (1928) | p. 115 |
| The Beginnings of Nova Scotian Politics, 1758-1766 (1935) | p. 115 |
| The Environment and Natural Resources | |
| The Assault on the Laurentian Barrier, 1850-1870 (1929) | p. 118 |
| Economic Factors in Canadian History (1923) | p. 120 |
| The Extermination of the Buffalo in Western Canada (1934) | p. 124 |
| Native-European Contact | |
| Review of Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1931) | p. 127 |
| Social Revolution in Early Eastern Canada (1938) | p. 129 |
| War, Centralization, and Reaction, 1940-1965 | |
| Commentary | p. 135 |
| Society and War | |
| The Social Sciences in the Post-War World (1941) | p. 140 |
| Response to Lower, 'The Social Sciences ...' (1941) | p. 145 |
| The Need for a Wider Study of Military History (1944) | p. 147 |
| In Defence of Political History (1950) | p. 149 |
| Redefining the Nation | |
| Sir John Macdonald and Canadian Historians (1948) | p. 152 |
| Toronto vs Montreal: The Struggle for Financial Hegemony, 1860-1875 (1941) | p. 156 |
| Agriculture in the Red River Colony (1949) | p. 159 |
| The Origins of Public Broadcasting in Canada (1965) | p. 162 |
| Nationalism Challenged | |
| Chapleau and the Conservative Party in Quebec (1956) | p. 168 |
| Review of Guy Fregault, La Guerre de la Conquete (1958) | p. 170 |
| The British Conquest: Canadian Social Scientists and the Fate of the Canadiens (1959) | p. 171 |
| Le Nationalisme canadien-francais: De ses origines a l'insurrection de 1837 (1964) | p. 176 |
| The Concept of Social Class and the Interpretation of Canadian History (1965) | p. 183 |
| The Lachine Strike of 1843 (1948) | p. 186 |
| The National Policy, the Workingman, and Proletarian Ideas in Victorian Canada (1959) | p. 189 |
| The Renewal of Diversity, 1966 to the Present | |
| Commentary | p. 195 |
| Limited Identities | |
| The People of a Canadian City: 1851-2 (1972) | p. 202 |
| Halifax Merchants and the Pursuit of Development, 1783-1850 (1978) | p. 206 |
| Never the Twain Did Meet: Prairie-Maritime Relations, 1910-27 (1978) | p. 208 |
| Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak (1985) | p. 212 |
| Of Inequality and Interdependence in the Nova Scotian Countryside, 1850-70 (1993) | p. 217 |
| Quebec and Nationalism | |
| The Defeat of George-Etienne Cartier in Montreal-East in 1872 (1970) | p. 224 |
| Religion and French-Canadian Mores in the Early Nineteenth Century (1971) | p. 227 |
| The Agricultural Crisis in Lower Canada, 1802-12: A Review of a Controversy (1974) | p. 232 |
| Revisionism and the Search for a Normal Society: A Critique of Recent Quebec Historical Writing (1992) | p. 235 |
| Class Consciousness | |
| Aid to the Civil Power: The Canadian Militia in Support of Social Order, 1867-1914 (1970) | p. 242 |
| The Shiners' War: Social Violence in the Ottawa Valley in the 1830s (1973) | p. 247 |
| Through the Prism of the Strike: Industrial Conflict in Southern Ontario, 1901-14 (1977) | p. 253 |
| E.P. Thompson vs Harold Logan: Writing about Labour and the Left in the 1970s (1981) | p. 259 |
| Paternalism and Politics: Sir Francis Bond Head, the Orange Order, and the Election of 1836 (1991) | p. 262 |
| The Return of Native History | |
| The French Presence in Huronia: The Structure of Franco-Huron Relations in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century (1968) | p. 267 |
| Amerindian Views of French Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1974) | p. 269 |
| The Historians' Indian: Native Americans in Canadian Historical Writing from Charlevoix to the Present (1986) | p. 273 |
| Gender Politics | |
| Writing Canadian Women's History, 1970-82: An Historiographical Analysis (1982) | p. 278 |
| The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment (1987) | p. 282 |
| Gender History and Historical Practice (1995) | p. 285 |
| Cultural History | |
| The Methodist Church and World War I (1968) | p. 289 |
| The Social Gospel in Canada, 1890-1928 (1968) | p. 292 |
| French Canada and the Prairie Frontier, 1870-1890 (1969) | p. 295 |
| Some Quebec Attitudes in an Age of Imperialism and Ideological Conflict (1976) | p. 298 |
| Speaking Modern: Language, Culture, and Hegemony in Grocery Window Displays, 1887-1920 (1989) | p. 302 |
| Reflections | |
| Commentary | p. 309 |
| On Canadian History | |
| Canadian History in Retrospect and Prospect: An Article to Mark the Completion of the First Twenty-Five Years of the Canadian Historical Review, 1920-1944 (1944) | p. 312 |
| Canadian History in the 1970s (1977) | p. 315 |
| A Belated Review of Harold Adams Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1979) | p. 318 |
| One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Innis, Eccles, and the Canadian Fur Trade (1981) | p. 322 |
| The Second Time Around: Political Scientists Writing History (1986) | p. 326 |
| Where to Begin and How: Narrative Openings in Donald Creighton's Historiography (1991) | p. 328 |
| 1837-38: Rebellion Reconsidered (1995) | p. 332 |
| Index | p. 337 |
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