Priest-ridden and church dominated - that is what most Canadians thought about Quebec social and intellectual life until recently. For a century, historical scholarship did not escape clerical influence, nor that nationalism which emanated from a people conscious that their nation had been defeated and colonized by the British. Bring on the Jesuits and their devotion to the Church, French civilization, and the conversion of the Amerindians! That era has now passed, as Universite? du Que?bec historian Serge Gagnon reveals in this searching study of Quebec historiography during the past quarter ce