The contested past : reading Canada's history : selections from the Canadian historical review / edited by Marlene Shore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shore, Marlene Gay, 1953-

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Canada--Historiography.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xiv, 353 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2002]

Language Note:

Chiefly in English; some text in French.

Contents:

Part 1 Nation and Diversity, 1920-1939

The Purpose of the Past

Some Vices of Clio (1926) / W.S. Wallace 71

The Beginnings of Historical Criticism in Canada: A Retrospect, 1896-1936 (1936) / George Wrong 73

Past Historians and Present History in Canada (1941) / Gustave Lanctot 77

Dollard des Ormeaux and the Fight at the Long Sault: A Reinterpretation of Dollard's Exploit (1932) / E.R. Adair 80

Was Dollard the Saviour of New France? (1932) / Gustave Lanctot 82

Women of New France (Three Rivers: 1651-63) (1940) / Isabel Foulche-Delbosc 84

The Historian and Society (1933) / Charles Beard 87

The Historian and Society (1933) / George M. Wrong 90

Defining the Canadian Nation

Canada and the Imperial War Cabinet (1920) / George M. Wrong 93

The Growth of Canadian National Feeling (1920) / W.S. Wallace 99

Canada as a Vassal State (1920) / Archibald MacMechan 101

Nationalism and Self-Determination (1921) / W.P.M. Kennedy 104

Canada's Relations with the Empire as Seen by the Toronto Globe, 1857-1867 (1929) / F.H. Underhill 107

Some American Influences upon the Canadian Federation Movement (1924) / R.G. Trotter 110

The Struggle for Financial Control in Lower Canada, 1818-1831 (1931) / D.G. Creighton 112

Canadian Migration in the Forties (1928) / Frances Morehouse 115

The Beginnings of Nova Scotian Politics, 1758-1766 (1935) / W.S. MacNutt 115

The Environment and Natural Resources

The Assault on the Laurentian Barrier, 1850-1870 (1929) / A.R.M. Lower 118

Economic Factors in Canadian History (1923) / W.A. Mackintosh 120

The Extermination of the Buffalo in Western Canada (1934) / Frank G. Roe 124

Native-European Contact

Review of Harold A. Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1931) / W.A. Mackintosh 127

Social Revolution in Early Eastern Canada (1938) / Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey 129

Part 2 War, Centralization, and Reaction, 1940-1965

Society and War

The Social Sciences in the Post-War World (1941) / A.R.M. Lower 140

Response to Lower, 'The Social Sciences ...' (1941) / H.A. Innis 145

The Need for a Wider Study of Military History (1944) / A.E. Prince 147

In Defence of Political History (1950) / G.P. de T. Glazebrook 149

Redefining the Nation

Sir John Macdonald and Canadian Historians (1948) / D.G. Creighton 152

Toronto vs Montreal: The Struggle for Financial Hegemony, 1860-1875 (1941) / D.C. Masters 156

Agriculture in the Red River Colony (1949) / W.L. Morton 159

The Origins of Public Broadcasting in Canada (1965) / Margaret Prang 162

Nationalism Challenged

Chapleau and the Conservative Party in Quebec (1956) / H. Blair Neatby, John T. Saywell 168

Review of Guy Fregault, La Guerre de la Conquete (1958) / G.F.G. Stanley 170

The British Conquest: Canadian Social Scientists and the Fate of the Canadiens (1959) / Michel Brunet 171

Le Nationalisme canadien-francais: De ses origines a l'insurrection de 1837 (1964) / Fernand Ouellet 176

The Concept of Social Class and the Interpretation of Canadian History (1965) / S.R. Mealing 183

The Lachine Strike of 1843 (1948) / H.C. Pentland 186

The National Policy, the Workingman, and Proletarian Ideas in Victorian Canada (1959) / F.W. Watt 189

Part 3 The Renewal of Diversity, 1966 to the Present

Limited Identities

The People of a Canadian City: 1851-2 (1972) / Michael Katz 202

Halifax Merchants and the Pursuit of Development, 1783-1850 (1978) / David Sutherland 206

Never the Twain Did Meet: Prairie-Maritime Relations, 1910-27 (1978) / Ernest R. Forbes 208

Industry and the Good Life around Idaho Peak (1985) / Cole Harris 212

Of Inequality and Interdependence in the Nova Scotian Countryside, 1850-70 (1993) / Rusty Bitterman, Robert A. MacKinnon, Graeme Wynn 217

Quebec and Nationalism

The Defeat of George-Etienne Cartier in Montreal-East in 1872 (1970) / Brian J. Young 224

Religion and French-Canadian Mores in the Early Nineteenth Century (1971) / Jean-Pierre Wallot 227

The Agricultural Crisis in Lower Canada, 1802-12: A Review of a Controversy (1974) / T.J.A. LeGoff 232

Revisionism and the Search for a Normal Society: A Critique of Recent Quebec Historical Writing (1992) / Ronald Rudin 235

Class Consciousness

Aid to the Civil Power: The Canadian Militia in Support of Social Order, 1867-1914 (1970) / Desmond Morton 242

The Shiners' War: Social Violence in the Ottawa Valley in the 1830s (1973) / Michael S. Cross 247

Through the Prism of the Strike: Industrial Conflict in Southern Ontario, 1901-14 (1977) / Craig Heron, Bryan D. Palmer 253

E.P. Thompson vs Harold Logan: Writing about Labour and the Left in the 1970s (1981) / Kenneth McNaught 259

Paternalism and Politics: Sir Francis Bond Head, the Orange Order, and the Election of 1836 (1991) / Sean T. Cadigan 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) / Bruce G. Trigger 267

Amerindian Views of French Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1974) / Cornelius Jaenen 269

The Historians' Indian: Native Americans in Canadian Historical Writing from Charlevoix to the Present (1986) / Bruce G. Trigger 273

Gender Politics

Writing Canadian Women's History, 1970-82: An Historiographical Analysis (1982) / Eliane Leslau Silverman 278

The Skilled Emigrant and Her Kin: Gender, Culture, and Labour Recruitment (1987) / Joy Parr 282

Gender History and Historical Practice (1995) / Joy Parr 285

Cultural History

The Methodist Church and World War I (1968) / J.M. Bliss 289

The Social Gospel in Canada, 1890-1928 (1968) / Richard Allen 292

French Canada and the Prairie Frontier, 1870-1890 (1969) / A.I. Silver 295

Some Quebec Attitudes in an Age of Imperialism and Ideological Conflict (1976) / A.I. Silver 298

Speaking Modern: Language, Culture, and Hegemony in Grocery Window Displays, 1887-1920 (1989) / Keith Walden 302

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) / George Brown, D. G. Creighton 312

Canadian History in the 1970s (1977) / H.J. Hanham 315

A Belated Review of Harold Adams Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada (1979) / W.J. Eccles 318

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Innis, Eccles, and the Canadian Fur Trade (1981) / Hugh M. Grant 322

The Second Time Around: Political Scientists Writing History (1986) / John English 326

Where to Begin and How: Narrative Openings in Donald Creighton's Historiography (1991) / Kenneth C. Dewar 328

1837-38: Rebellion Reconsidered (1995) / Allan Greer 332.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802043054

0802081339

OCLC:

46907665