Carl Berger FRSC (born 25 February 1939) is a Canadian academic and author.
[2] Berger was appointed at the University of Toronto in 1964,[2] serving as a professor in Canadian history until his retirement in 2003.
"[4] Historian Terry Crowley writes that the book "added a new dimension to historical scholarship in revealing the complicated roles that ideas play in history",[2] and historian Adele Perry describes the book as anticipating historical disputes in the 1990s regarding the relationship between nation and empire.
[5] Writing in 2009, Perry describes the book as a "standard reference for studies of English Canada and imperialism".
[6] Crowley describes the book a "landmark", writing that it "cast a mirror on an academic discipline that had been little prone to introspection".