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1.1 Introduction Historical studies demand that we learn something about the past but it also requires us to ask how it is we know what we think we know about the past. When you read an academic history text, you’ll observe that historians typically want to prove something about events in the past. For example, they want to show that one individual played a critical role, or that environmental change was a silent but critical player, or that prejudices affecting one group had an unanticipated ou

Chapters

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 The Writing of History
• 1.3 Making Histories
• 1.4 The Current State of Historical Writing in Canada
• 1.5 Summary
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 History without Archives
• 2.5 Languages, Cultures, Economies
• 2.6 Summary
• 3.7 Summary
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Beginnings of Globalism
• 3.3 The Seafaring World of the 15th and 16th Centuries
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.5 The Heroic Age of New France
• 4.6 Canada, 1663-1763
• 4.9 War in the Pays d’en Haut
• 4.10 Summary
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 The Columbian Exchange
• 5.4 Strategic Encounters
• 5.5 Strategic Alliances
• 5.8 Summary
• 5.6 Belief and Culture: The Wendat Experience
• 6.4 International Fisheries
• 6.5 The Plantation Colonies
• 6.6 Contrasting Farming Frontiers
• 6.7 Triangular Trade
• 6.8 The Fur Trade in Global Perspective
• 6.9 Colonial Conflict to 1713
• 6.10 Acadia 1713-1755
• 7.5 Interwar Years: The Atlantic Colonies
• 7.6 Interwar Years: The Canadas
• 7.7 Slavery
• 7.9 Summary
• 7.3 Government
• 7.2 Pyrrhic Victories
• 7.1 Introduction
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Northerners
• 8.3 Intrusions during the 17th Century
• 8.5 The Montrealers versus the HBC
• 8.6 Fur Trade Wars
• 8.8 Fur Trade Society and the Métis
• 9.2 The Dismal Science
• 9.7 The Canal Era
• 9.8 Economic and Social Change
• 9.10 Reciprocity and Free Trade
• 10.6 Social Classes
• 10.7 Gender Roles
• 10.8 Race and Racism
• 10.9 Education
• 10.10 Leisure and Recreation
• 10.4 Country Life
• 10.2 Demographics
• 11.2 Politics 1818-1860
• 11.3 Upper and Lower Canada
• 11.4 The Tory Oligarchy
• 11.5 Ultramontanism and Secularism
• 11.6 Republicanism in Canada
• 11.7 The Press
• 11.12 Responsible Government
• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.2 Childhood in a Dangerous Time
• 12.3 Childhood in New France and Lower Canada
• 12.4 Childhood in the West
• 12.6 Childhood under Attack
• 12.7 Children as Historic Actors
• 12.8 Summary
• 13.6 Boundary Disputes and Manifest Destiny
• 13.7 Identity Crisis
• 13.8 The Island Colony
• 13.9 The Gold Colony
• 13.10 A Shrinking Aboriginal Landscape in the 1860s
• 13.5 Aboriginal Traders
• 13.4 The Canadian Cordillera
• 13.2 Aboriginal Societies in the 18th Century
• 13.3 Fur Trade and Empires
• 14.1 Introduction
• 14.3 Confederation as a Cure-All
• 14.4 Crafting a Constitution
• 14.5 Atlantic Canada and Confederation
• 14.6 Canada and the West
• 14.7 On the Brink of Industrialization

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