John Adams : a life

The contested past : reading Canada's history : selections from the Canadian historical review

Canadian historical review.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART ONE: NATION AND DIVERSITY, 1920-1939 -- Commentary -- The Purpose of the Past -- Some Vices of Clio (1926) -- The Beginnings of Historical Criticism in Canada: A Retrospect, 1896-1936 (1936) -- Past Historians and Present History in Canada (1941) -- Dollard des Ormeaux and the Fight at the Long Sault: A Reinterpretation of Dollard's Exploit (1932) -- Was Dollard the Saviour of New France? (1932) -- Women of New France (Three Rivers: 1651-63) (1940) -- The Historian and Society (1933) -- The Historian and Society (1933) -- Defining the Canadian Nation -- Canada and the Imperial War Cabinet (1920) -- The Growth of Canadian National Feeling (1920) -- Canada as a Vassal State (1920) -- Nationalism and Self-Determination (1921) -- Canada's Relations with the Empire as Seen by the Toronto Globe, 1857-1867 (1929) -- Some American Influences upon the Canadian Federation Movement (1924) -- The Struggle for Financial Control in Lower Canada, 1818-1831 (1931) -- Canadian Migration in the Forties (1928) -- The Beginnings of Nova Scotian Politics, 1758-1766 (1935) -- The Environment and Natural Resources -- The Assault on the Laurentian Barrier, 1850-1870 (1929) -- Economic Factors in Canadian History (1923) -- The Extermination of the Buffalo in Western Canada (1934) -- Native-European Contact -- Review of Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1931) -- Social Revolution in Early Eastern Canada (1938) -- PART TWO: WAR, CENTRALIZATION, AND REACTION, 1940-1965 -- Commentary -- Society and War -- The Social Sciences in the Post-War World (1941) -- Response to Lower, ''The Social Sciences ...' (1941) -- The Need for a Wider Study of Military History (1944) -- In Defence of Political History (1950) -- Redefining the Nation -- Sir John Macdonald and Canadian Historians (1948) -- Toronto vs Montreal: The Struggle for Financial Hegemony, 1860-1875 (1941) -- Agriculture in the Red River Colony (1949) -- The Origins of Public Broadcasting in Canada (1965) -- Nationalism Challenged -- Chapleau and the Conservative Party in Quebec (1956) -- Review of Guy Frégault, La Guerre de la Conquete (1958) -- The British Conquest: Canadian Social Scientists and the Fate of the Canadiens (1959) -- Le Nationalisme canadien-français: De ses origines á 1'insurrection de 1837 (1964) -- The Concept of Social Class and the Interpretation of Canadian History (1965) -- The Lachine Strike of 1843 (1948) -- The National Policy, the Workingman, and Proletarian Ideas in Victorian Canada (1959) -- PART THREE: THE RENEWAL OF DIVERSITY, 1966 TO THE PRESENT -- Commentary -- Limited Identities -- The People of a Canadian City: 1851-2 (1972) -- Halifax Merchants and the Pursuit of Development, 1783-1850 (1978) -- Never the Twain Did Meet: Prairie-Maritime Relations, 1910-27 (1978) -- Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak (1985) -- Of Inequality and Interdependence in the Nova Scotian Countryside, 1850-70 (1993) -- Quebec and Nationalism -- The Defeat of George-Etienne Carder in Montreal-East in 1872 (1970) -- Religion and French-Canadian Mores in the Early Nineteenth Century (1971) -- The Agricultural Crisis in Lower Canada, 1802-12: A Review of a Controversy (1974) -- Revisionism and the Search for a Normal Society: A Critique of Recent Quebec Historical Writing (1992) -- Class Consciousness -- Aid to the Civil Power: The Canadian Militia in Support of Social Order, 1867-1914 (1970) -- The Shiners' War: Social Violence in the Ottawa Valley in the 1830s (1973) -- Through the Prism of the Strike: Industrial Conflict in Southern Ontario, 1901-14 (1977) -- E.P. Thompson vs Harold Logan: Writing about Labour and the Left in the 19705 (1981) -- Paternalism and Politics: Sir Francis Bond Head, the Orange Order, and the Election of 1836 (1991) -- 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) -- Amerindian Views of French Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1974) -- The Historians' Indian: Native Americans in Canadian Historical Writing from Charlevoix to the Present (1986) -- Gender Politics -- Writing Canadian Women's History, 1970-82: An Historiographical Analysis (1982) -- The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment (1987) -- Gender History and Historical Practice (1995) -- Cultural History -- The Methodist Church and World War I (1968) -- The Social Gospel in Canada, 1890-1928 (1968) -- French Canada and the Prairie Frontier, 1870-1890 (1969) -- Some Quebec Attitudes in an Age of Imperialism and Ideological Conflict (1976) -- Speaking Modern: Language, Culture, and Hegemony in Grocery Window Displays, 1887-1920 (1989) -- PART FOUR: REFLECTIONS -- Commentary -- 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) -- Canadian History in the 1970s (1977) -- A Belated Review of Harold Adams Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1979) -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Innis, Eccles, and the Canadian Fur Trade (1981) -- The Second Time Around: Political Scientists Writing History (1986) -- Where to Begin and How: Narrative Openings in Donald Creighton's Historiography (1991) -- 1837-38: Rebellion Reconsidered (1995) -- INDEX