Getting It Wrong : How Canadians Forgot Their Past and Imperilled Confederation.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction: 'The Hard Light of History' -- Part One. 1820-1850: Reformers and Responsible Government -- 2 Reform versus Loyalism: Two Canadian Myths -- 3 Strangers in Their Own Land -- 4 A Federal Constitution: Reformers and the Empire -- 5 Myths of Responsible Government -- Part Two. 1850-1890: The Confederation Compact -- 6 'One Great Confederation' -- 7 Confederation: The Untold Story -- 8 Je me souviens: The Great Fight for Responsible Government, Part III -- 9 Peoples and Pacts -- Part Three. 1890-1940: Forgetting the Compact -- 10 Amending the Constitution -- 11 Centralist Revolution -- 12 Continentalism, Imperialism, Nationalism -- 13 English Canada Forgets -- Part Four. 1940-1982: Continentalism and Nationalisms -- 14 The New Canadian Nationalism -- 15 Canadian Nationalists and the Quiet Revolution -- 16 A Historic Blunder: Trudeau and Patriation -- 17 Conclusion: Getting It Wrong, Putting It Right -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

This provocative book explains how divergent views of Canada's past have sown dissension between Québécois and other Canadians, disclosing a lost middle ground between the Canadian nationalist and Québec nationalist visions of Canadian history.

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