Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-324)
1. The land and its resources -- 2. The Imperial dream of New France -- 3. The struggle for the continent -- 4. Default or decision? -- 5. The age of the French Revolution -- 6. Oligarchs and democrats -- 7. Aristocrats of reform -- 8. Problems of destiny -- 9. 'One Dominion under the name of Canada' -- 10. Pragmatism and diplomacy -- 11. The politics of purity -- 12. The iron spike and the Regina scaffold -- 13. The wheat boom and Laurier Nationalism -- 14. Empire, race, and war -- 15. Whose Empire, whose nation? -- 16. Prosperity and depression -- 17. 'Parliament will decide' -- 18. Postwar patterns -- 19. The Canadian question