List of maps, tables, primary source documents, and biographies Introduction: Understanding History PART I: To 1760 Introduction 1. The Peoples of Early North America 2. Contacts and Encounters 3. Early European Approaches 4. The Atlantic Region to 1670 5. Canada to 1663 6. Canada 1663-1763: Government, Military, Economy 7. Canada 1663-1763: Population, Society, Culture 8.

The Peripheries of the Empires, 1670-1760 9. A Century of Conflict, 1660-1760 Writing about Aboriginal Peoples' History PART II: 1760-1840 Introduction 10. The Expansion and Contraction of British North America, 1760-1782 11. Loyalties and Loyalists, 1775-1791 12. Colonial Politics, War, and Rebellion, 1791-1840 13. The New Immigrants and Settlements: Peopling British North America, 1791-1860 14. The Colonial Economy, 1791-1840 15. Colonial Society, 1791-1840 16.

Colonial Culture, 1791-1840 Writing about Women's History PART III: 1840-1870 Introduction 17. Political and Administrative Reform, 1840-1860 18. Reorientation: British North America and the Empire after 1840 19. Reorientation: British North America and the Continent after 1840 20. The West and the North, 1821-1868 21. Early Victorian Society, 1840-1870 22. Early Victorian Culture, 1840-1870 23. Industrialization, 1850-1870 24.

Unification, 1862-1867 Writing about the Canadian Fur Trade PART IV: 1867-1885 Introduction 25. The Completion of Confederation, 1867-1873 26. Envisioning the New Nation, 1867-1885 Writing about Confederation Notes Index.