| Kommentar |
This course turns the historians’ tools on the discipline of history itself by examining historians and their interpretations as themselves historically constituted. Discussion throughout the semester will centre on three key questions. How have historians understood or interpreted Canada’s past over time? When and how have their interpretations changed? Finally, how have changing conditions on different scales (local, national, and inter/transnational) figure into such changes over time? It is worth emphasizing that because historians of Canada have existed as part of a broad history and the ideological and other struggles central to it, this course focuses on grand theorists (for example, Karl Marx, Ferdinand Braudel, Frederick Jackson Turner) and those who took inspiration from, or exception with, their ideas and schemas as they examined the history of northern North America.
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch |
| Literatur |
Literature: Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986) and Donald Wright’s The Professionalization of History in English Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). |
