Stanley B. Ryerson Progress books, 1975, 358 pages

    "Swift forceful style . . . curiously interesting and suggestive . . . It is a sociological study of Canadian economic and political evolution based on the Marxist conception of history."

    "A wholly new concept in the treatment of the subject."
     "Contains a considerable amount of information hither-to unmentioned . . . a fund of interesting but infrequently recorded facts."

    "Conscientious, honest and scholarly."

    "(the) chapter on Indian and Negro slavery in Canada, a subject seldom discussed in survey histories . . . would be instructive reading for all Canadian."
    "American historians might find his chapters on the War of 1812 . . . of interest."

    "This scholarly book is an important contribution to Marxist historical analysis with a lively and human approach making it very readable."