Bibliographic record
Abstract
W.J. Eccles’s Frontenac: The Courtier Governor (1959) and his article “The History of New France According to Francis Parkman” (1961) established his reputation as a fearsome iconoclast. The myth of the heroic governor and the reputation of his nineteenth-century champion did not survive intact. Less dramatic but equally important was Eccles’s exposition of French policy for the development of Canada in the seventeenth century, which he labelled Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s “compact colony policy,” a policy of limiting Canada’s geographical extent Eccles made this idea, long-buried in his Master of Arts thesis (1951), the theme of his book Canada under Louis XIV (1964) in the Canadian Centenary Series. The division between volumes 3 and 4 reflects Eccles’s belief that from 1701 a new policy of continental imperialism replaced Colbert’s old policy. Letters between Eccles and his editors, W.L. Morton and D.G. Creighton, reveal his struggle to include sections on economic and social history in a series decidedly narrative in structure. Canadian history writing was at a crossroads. Eccles was largely responsible for the rebirth of New France history in English. His influence was also felt among French-language historians, engaged in their own struggle to release history from a nineteenth-century embrace.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".