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CANADIAN HISTORY FIELD SEMINAR (Draft to Be Updated) 2016-17 York University Graduate Program in History History 6030 CANADIAN HISTORY FIELD SEMINAR (Draft to be updated) 2016-17 Course Director: Professor Marlene Shore, 2184 Vari Hall [email protected] Office hours: Tuesdays 10:30am to 12:30 pm or by apppointment This course is intended to assist doctoral candidates in preparing for the comprehensive examinations in the broader field of Canadian history and any of its sub- themes, as either the Major or Minor Field. It can also serve as the third field course. Its aim is to provide an introduction to some (but by no means all) of the major historical works, themes, and debates in Canadian history. The instructors are drawn from among the Canadian historians in the Graduate History Program (this year: TBA). The seminars will meet weekly on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 5:30, except when other faculty teaching commitments require alternative times. The weekly seminars will discuss the topics included on the Canadian Field Reading List 2016-17. Individual instructors will provide students with advice about certain readings to concentrate upon for a particular seminar. They are asterisked. For the comprehensive exam, however, students are responsible for all of the readings listed. Attendance at all classes is expected unless a student is ill or injured. A student unable to attend a particular class should notify the instructor for that week. ASSIGNMENTS Each student in History 6030 will be required to prepare two short written assignments of approximately 2500 words, one in each term. These papers will consist of a critical analysis of the literature on one of the topics on the Canadian field reading list (2015-16) which has been discussed in the seminar. Students are strongly advised to write papers on subjects outside their areas of special interest or expertise in order to expand their knowledge of the literature. After deciding what topic they wish to write upon at the beginning of each term, students should discuss with the instructor responsible for the seminar how they intend to approach the paper, and the instructor may suggest a small number of additional items of reading where appropriate. Both papers should not be written for the same instructor. The papers are not intended to be simply critical bibliographies of the works consulted, merely describing the approach taken by a particular author and the effectiveness of presentation of the argument before moving on to another item. Instead, students should consider what are the key questions raised by historians about a particular issue, what questions are answered, and which ones seem to have been ignored. The paper can then deal with the way in which certain problems have been analyzed (or overlooked), while highlighting those that seem to be of particular significance. An author who has made a valuable contribution to understanding a subject can therefore be discussed where relevant, while those writers who are not felt to have added as much of the value to the analysis would receive correspondingly less consideration. DEADLINES In order that the work of the course can be completed between September and April, leaving students free to concentrate on preparation for the field examinations, the written assignments will be due within two weeks after the date of the seminar where the material was discussed. Please submit your papers on time! Penalties will be applied for lateness in submitting written work, normally 1.5 marks per day or a full letter grade per week being deducted. In case of illness or other serious problems that prevent submission of papers, students should discuss the situation with Professor Shore. In order that the course director can keep track of who owes what to whom, please hand the papers in to Professor Shore's History Department mailbox (and an electronic version to her email). The instructors will return graded papers to the course director to pass on to the students so that she can keep track of their progress in the course. Once the written work in the course has been completed (that is, within two weeks after the last seminar) and graded, all the instructors will meet to discuss each student’s work in the course and report a final grade to the Graduate History Program. EVALUATION Two short assignments 60% (30% each) Participation 40% The grade on participation will be based on students’ comments and questions on the readings and input during class discussions and will be arrived at by discussion among all the instructors in the course at the end of the second term. TOPICS Note: Topics and Instructors are from 2015-16; to be revised and updated for 2016-17 FALL TERM 15 September Overview + Historiography M. Shore 22 September Natives and Newcomers W. Wicken 29 September Colonial Economies J. Stephen 6 October Forms of the Colonial State M. Martel 13 October Colonial Societies S. Kheraj 20 October Gender and Family K. McPherson 27 October TBA 3 November State Formation M. Martel 10 November Christianity M. Shore 17 November Colonizing Native Peoples W. Wicken 24 November The Clash of Ideologies M. Shore 1 December War C. Heron WINTER TERM 5 January Environments and Landscapes S. Kheraj 12 January The Working Class C. Heron 19 January Culture and Modernity S. Kheraj 26 January Immigration and Ethnicity C. Heron 2 February Social Reform and Regulation M. Shore 9 February Race K. McPherson 16 February NO CLASS -- READING WEEK 23 February The State and Cultural Institutions M. Shore 1 March The Welfare State J. Stephen 8 March From Hot to Cold Wars J. Stephen 15 March Youth, Sex, and Family K. McPherson 22 March The Politics of Quebec M. Martel 29 March Native Peoples in the 20th Century W. Wicken 5 April The New Economy M. Shore Canadian Field Reading List 2015-16 1. Overview and Historiography Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel, Canada: A National History (1 vol. 2003) (or Claude Couture, avec Gratien Allaire, Historie du Canada: espace et différences) *Marlene Shore, “Introduction,” to Shore, ed., The Contested Past: Reading Canada’s History, 3-62, (or “Remember the Future,” CHR 1995) *Bruce Trigger, “The Historian’s Indian: Native Americans in Canadian Historical Writing from Charlevoix to the Present,” CHR, 1986 *Joy Parr, “Gender History and Historical Practice,” CHR, 1995 *Gerald Friesen, “The Evolving Meanings of Region in Canada,” CHR, 2001 *Ian McKay, “The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History,” CHR, 2000 *Camille A. Nelson and Charmaine A. Nelson, "Introduction," Racism, Eh? A Critical Inter- Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada 2. Natives and Newcomers * Bruce Trigger, The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 (translates as Les enfants d’Aataentsic) Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (Translated as Catherine Tekakwitha et les Jésuites: La rencontre de deux mondes) *William Wicken, Mi’kmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land, and Donald Marshall Junior Arthur Ray, Indians in the Fur Trade: Their Role as Hunters, Trappers and Middlemen in the Lands of Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1670-1870 3. Colonial Economies * Harold Adams Innis, “The Importance of Staple Products,” in Michael S. Cross and Gregory S. Kealey, eds., Readings in Canadian Social History, Vol.2: Pre-Industrial Canada (and in Innis, The Fur Trade in Canada, Conclusion). AND ONE OF: Peter Pope, Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century *Béatrice Craig, Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalism: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada Douglas McCalla, Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784- 1870 4. Forms of the Colonial State * Louise Dechêne, Le Peuple, l’Etat et la Guerre au Canada sous le Régime français * Jerry Bannister, The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832 John Mack Faragher, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland * Donald Fyson, Magistrates, Police and People: Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada [Read two of Dechêne, Bannister, and Fyson] 5. Colonial Societies: Social Class, Gender and Ethnicity *Carolyn Podruchny, Making the Voyageur Worl : Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade (translated a : Les voyageurs et leur monde : voyageurs et traiteurs de fourrures en Amérique du Nord) Cecilia Morgan, Public Men and Virtuous Women: The Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850 * Allan Greer, The Patriots and the People: The Rebellion of 1838 in Rural Lower Canada (translated as: Habitants et patriotes: La rébellion de 1837 dans les campagnes du Bas- Canada) Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. 6. Gender and Family Sylvia Van Kirk, “The Impact of White Women on Fur Trade Society,” in Alison Prentice, ed., The Neglected Majority: Essays in Canadian Women’s History; and in J.R. Miller, ed., Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian-White Relations in Canada *Bettina Bradbury, Wife to Widow: Life, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 Wendy Mitchinson, The Nature of Their Bodies: Women and Their Doctors in Victorian Canada *Sarah Carter, The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation-Building in Western Canada to 1915 7. State Formation * Bruce Curtis, The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875 * A.I. Silver, French-Canadian Idea of Confederation, Ch. 2-3 Phillip Buckner, “The Maritimes and Confederation: A Reassessment,” CHR, 1990 *Ian McKay, “The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History,” in Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, eds., Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (also in Canadian Historical Review, 2000) *Bruce Curtis, “After 'Canada': Liberalisms, Social Theory, and Historical Analysis,” ibid., p.
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