Table of Contents:
- When two worlds met / Arthur Ray
- Colonization and conflict : New France and its rivals, 1600-1760 / Christopher Moore
- On the margins of empire, 1760-1840 / Graeme Wynn
- Between three oceans : challenges of a continental destiny, 1840-1900 / Peter Waite
- The triumph and trials of materialism, 1900-1945 / Ramsay Cook
- Strains of affluence, 1945-2000 / Desmond Morton.