Preface; Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Traditions and Practices: From Colonial and Area to Cultural or Societal Studies

I. Framing Research on Canada: Burdens and Achievements of the Past

2. The Atlantic World: Creating Societies in Imperial Hinterland

3. Canada’s Peoples: Inclusions & Exclusions

4. Self-Constructions: From Regional Consciousnesses to National Billboards

II. From Privileged Discourses to Research on Social Spaces

5. Privileged Discourses up to 1920: Scholarship in the Making

6. Substantial Research: The Social Spaces of the Geological Survey of Canada

7. Learning and Society: Social Responsibility, Educational Institutions, Elite Formation

III. The Study of Canada: The Social Sciences, the Arts, New Media, 1920s–1950s

8. Data-Based Studies of Society: Political Economy, History, Sociology

9. Discourse-Based Reflections about Society: Where Were the Humanities?

IV. The Third Phase: Multiple Discourses about Interlinked Societies

10. Decolonization: The Changes of the 1960s

11. Visions and Borderlines: Canadian Studies since the 1960s

12. Views from the Outside: The Surge of International Canadian Studies

13. Agency in a Multicultural Society: Interdisciplinary Research Achievements

V. Perspectives

14. From Interest-Driven National Discourse to Transcultural Societal Studies

Interviews with the Author; Index