Introduction: Understanding HistoryPart I. To 1763Introduction1. The Peoples of Early North America2. Contacts and Encounters3. Early European Approaches4. The Atlantic Region to 16705. Canada to 16636. Canada 1663-1763: Government, Military, Economy7.

Canada 1663-1763: Population, Society, Culture8. The Peripheries of the Empires, 1670-17609. A Century of Conflict, 1660-1760Writing about Aboriginal Peoples HistoryPart II. 1760-1840Introduction10. The Expansion and Contraction of British North America, 1760-178211. Loyalities and Loyalists, 1775-179112. Colonial Politics, War, and Rebellion, 1791-184013. Peopling British North America, 1791-186014.

The Colonial Economy, 1791-184015. Colonial Society, 1791-184016. Colonial Culture, 1791-1840Writing about Women's HistoryPart III. 1840-1870Introduction17. Political and Administrative Reform, 1840-186018. Reorientation: British North America and the Empire After 184019. Reorientation: British North America and the Continent after 184020. The West and the North, 1821-187021.

Early Victorian Society, 1840-187022. Early Victorian Culture, 1840-187023. Industrialization, 1850-187024. Unification, 1862-1867Writing about the History of ConfederationNotesIndex.