109 courses in the 1981–82 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Department of History
Professor, Chairman of the Department H. MacKinnon, BA (Montreal), Pht, STL (Gregorian), MA (Toronto), DPhil (Oxford)
Assistant Professor, Associate Chairman D. E. Wright, BA (Cambridge), MA, PhD (McMaster)
Professors
P. G. Cornell, ED, MA, PhD (Toronto) FRHistS
M. J. Craton, BA (London), MA, PhD (McMaster) FRHistS.
F.H. Epp, BA (Bethel College), MA, PhD (Minnesota), LLD (Brandon) G
F. C. Gérard, MA (College St. Dominique, France), BD, STM (McGill), PhD (Hartford, Conn.) P
P. Keresztes', MA (Toronto), PhD (Graz)
W. Klaassen, BA (McMaster), DPhil (Oxford) G
J. F. H. New, BA, MA (Melbourne), PhD (Toronto), FRHistS
G. M. Ostrander, BA (Columbia), MA, PhD (California- Berkeley)
Adjunct Professors (WLU and Guelph)
R. P. Fuke, BA (Toronto), MA (Maryland), PhD (Chicago), (WLU)
W. Stanford Reid, PhD (Penn.), FRHistS
Associate Professors
M. T. Cherniavsky, MA (Oxford)
D. A. Davies, BA, PhD (Washington) Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
” K. D. Eagles, BA (Cambridge), MA, PhD (Washington)
J. R. English, BA (Waterioo), AM, PhD (Harvard) P. J. Harrigan, BA (Detroit), AM, PhD (Michigan) L. A. Johnson, BA (Waterloo), MA, MPhil (Toronto) R. C. MacGillivray, BA (Queen’s), AM, PhD (Harvard) K. M. McLaughlin, BA (Waterloo), MA (Dalhousie), PhD (Toronto)J E. P. Patterson, BA (Baylor), MA (Kansas), PhD (Washington) P. S. Smith, MA (Toronto), PhD (New Mexico) J J..O. Stubbs, BA (Toronto), MSc (Econ) (London), DPhil (Oxford) . J. A. Wahl, CR, BA (W. Ont.), MA, PhD (St. Louis) J J. W. Walker, BA (Toronto), MA (Waterloo), PhD (Dalhousie) R. E. Wynne, Duur (Vienna), BEd, MA (Alberta), PhD (Washington)
Assistant Professors D. J. Horton, BA (Wat. Luth.), MA (Waterloo), PhD (McGill) S. K. Johannesen, BA (Evangei College), MA, PhD (Missouri) W. O. Packull, BA (Guelph), MA (Waterloo), PhD (Queen’s)R R. Sawatsky, BChEd (CMBC), BA (Bethel College) MA (Minnesota), MA (Princeton), PhD (Princeton) G
1Classics History Courses
100 level: Introductory courses. For First-Year Arts students and for all other students interested.
200-224: Survey courses. Primarily intended for nonhistory majors, but open to history majors.
250-256: Foundation courses. Primarily intended for history majors, but open to non-history majors whether or not they have previously taken a history course.
300 level: Special Topics courses. Primarily intended for history majors, but open to all students who have previously taken. a history course.
400 level: Senior Seminars. Restricted to senior history honours students.
Course Descriptions
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Mennonite History 2 (1920-1975)
Canadian History: 1760-1900
Canadian History: 1900-1979
History of Canadian-American Relations Since 1914
History of Canadian Indians to 1870's
History of Canadian Indians since 1870's
Canadian Black History
Ontario History to Confederation
Ontario History Since Confederation
Senior Seminar: The History of Modern Quebec
Man-Environment Studies
M Env 338 M Env 351
M Env 356 M Env 385
A thematic introduction to the development of the world's major civilizations. This year’s theme is “Community and Sociai Order”, examining the dynamic relationship between individuals and their social structures, and their state.
Instructors: MacKinnon, Harrigan, Davies.
Hist 101A ; 0.5
Major Themes of Western Civilization
The major transformations of Western Civilization from the disintegration of the Roman Empire to the emergence of modern Europe. : Offered by correspondence only: F,W,S, in 1981-82.
The major transformations of modern Western Civilization: The French and Industrial Revolutions, Nationalism, the World Wars, Fascism, Totalitarianism and other dynamic forces.
Offered by correspondence only: F,W,S, in 1981-82.
Course Descriptions History
A consideration of the shaping of American characteristics under the headings of: The Frontier; Religious Denominationalism;.Libertarian Revolution; Black Slavery; New Immigrations; Mass Production; the Great Depression; War and Global Americanism. Instructor: Ostrander
An introduction to the colonial experience and to the
’ processes of national emergence in the Twentieth
Century. Special reference is made to the Caribbean area: Instructor: Craton
An analysis of the diplomatic, potitical, economic, ideological, social and cultural explanations of the causes of the major wars of this century. Instructor: Stubbs.
The growth of nationalism and nation states since the French Revolution with attention to the Industrial Revolution, the World Wars, Fascism, Naziism and Stalinism.
Instructor: Harrigan
Selected major themes from pioneer life to Canadian involvement in Twentieth Century wars.
Instructors: English, Johnson
An exploration of some of the questions and answers posed by thinkers on the human predicament from Renaissance and Reformation times to the modern period. Readings range from Luther to J. P. Sartre, Shakespeare to Marx and Freud.
instructor: Johannesen
A century of conflict: The Avignon Papacy (sometimes cailed the Babylonian Captivity), the Great Schism and the Conciliar Movement. A continuation of Medieval History given in History 100 and an introduction to Renaissance and Reformation history.
Instructor: MacKinnnon
This course will introduce students, through the interrelationships and interaction of selected ‘ themes, to the contemporary history of Europe, North America, and the Far East. Its format includes two interpretive lectures per week plus major films on twentieth century crises and optional discussion groups..
Instructor: Eagles
This course created for non-Arts students.
A history of the Twentieth Century through films. The First World War, Europe between the Wars, The Second World War, North American society in the Twentieth Century and other political, moral and social themes will be explored.
Instructor: Johannesen
An historical examination of the urbanization process, the social, political and economic factors that shaped the Canadian city, and the relationship between selected metropolitan and hinterland areas. instructor: Johnson
A survey of the changes in the quality and structure of life with special emphasis on love, marriage and the family in the West since the sixteenth century.
Instructor: Johannesen
The course will discuss the problem of Quebec in contemporary Canada by analyzing the historical background of key issues like separatism, the survival of the French language, French-Canadian nationalism and the Quiet Revolution.
Instructor: Horton
An historical analysis of the role of organized religion, primarily Roman Catholicism, in modern
Latin America. The relationship between Church and.
State will receive particular attention. Instructor: Smith Offered at St. Jerome’s College.
Course Deseriptions 355 History.
An historical analysis of the development of Latin American oil policies and their relevance to North America. Multinational oil companies and the creation of indigenous petroleum industries will be studied.
instructor: Smith
Offered at St. Jerome’s College.
The course examines the cultural, moral, social and economic adaptations of European settlers to the Upper Canadian frontier environment.
Instructor: Johnson
A study of the development of business in Canada at both the general economic and the individual! enterprise level.
Instructor: Johnson
An introduction to the history of selected racial and regional minorities in Canada. The course examines the emergence of minority communities, and their position in modern Canadian society.
Instructor: Patterson
An examination of the title theme with particular emphasis on the United States’ emergence asa world power: the Cold War, J.F.K. and the New Frontier, the October 1962 missile crisis, Vietnam, L.B.J. and the Great Society, the 1970's in retrospect.
Instructor: Eagles
Offered by comespondence only: W,S, 1981-82.
An historical introduction to law throughout the ages: concepts, institutions, practices. Instructor: Wahl ‘
A survey of the main stages in the transition of Britain from a remote province of the Roman Empire to a prominent state of post-Reformation Europe. Within the chronological framework, political and constitutional as well as ecclesiastical and social developments will be examined.
Instructor: Cherniavsky
A survey of the shaping of British society and the British experience from the time of Shakespeare to the present: constitutional conflict and compromise, rise and fail of empire, industrial and urban revolution, world wars and welfare state.
Instructor: Wright
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Political, socia! and religious history of Ireland from the supremacy of the Gaelic social order to the Act of Union, 1485 to 1800.
Instructor: MacGillivray
Also offered by correspondence: F, 1981-82.
Political, social and religious history of ireland emphasizing social changes, the struggle for Home Rule and the Republic, 1800 to present.
Instructor: MacGillivray
Offered by correspondence only: W,S 1981-82
An inquiry into the nature of the Canadian experience by examining concepts and themes that were significant before the Twentieth Century. Instructor: Cornell
Offered by correspondence only: F,W,S, 1981-82
An approach to modern Canadian development as the people have wrestled with such phenomena as: war, depression, internal and external tensions, urban growth, the “post industrial” society. Instructor: Cornell , ’ Offered by correspondence only: F,W,S, 1981-82.
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The political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical development of Europe from Charlemagne to Philip IV of France.
Instructor: MacKinnon
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Course Descriptions, : History
European social history 1750-1914. This course will consider interrelations among the family, social groups and institutions during the process of industrialization, urbanization and mass education. Instructor: Harrigan
The evolution of a distinctive Canadian society in the face of dominant British and American influences. Topics will include Loyalists and Rebellion, Confederation, western settlement and Riel.
Instructor: English
“Canada’s century” - 1900 to the present: emphasizing the development of a distinctive society through a consideration of such topics as: immigration, industrialization, feminism, labour unrest and the growth of western Canada. instructor: English
A topical rather than chronological treatment divided into halves on the broad themes “The British Influence” and “The Colonial Identity.” Sections include institutional framework, imperial biographies, communications, native peoples, colonial economies, history of the Commonwealth. Instructor: Craton
A survey of American society, politics and thought: and of the relations of the United States with the outside world from 1865 to the present. Instructors: Ostrander, Eagles
instructor: Wahl Offered at St. Jerome's College.
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A study of achievements and crises in politics and society, and of changes and continuities in religion and philosophy in the Tudor period. ~
instructor: New
Offered by correspondence only: F,W, 1981-82.
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Evolution of the idea of consciousness as seen in the major works and manifestoes of artists, writers, musicians, architects and thinkers of the period with particular emphasis on the roles assigned to “artists” (broadly defined) in the shaping of consciousness and society.
Offered by correspondence only: F, 1981-82.
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An examination of the history of relations between the two countries since 1914. Topics of a political, economic, social and cultural nature will be studied. Instructor: Ostrander
“From Freedom to Conquest”. The history of Indianwhite contact and its effect on the life and culture of ‘these native Canadians.
Instructor: Patterson
History of Canadian indians since 1870's
“Life under coercion” and the ‘New Indian”. The history of Indians on reserves and under government administration. Contemporary themes and issues of concern to native people are examined.
instructor: Patterson
History
The emphasis will be on the early development of the common law in England and the formulation of constitutional law in the United States. instructors: Cherniavsky, Ostrander
Eastern Africa in pre-Colonial times. The coming of the Arabs and Portuguese. The slave trade of eastern Africa. The opening of eastern Africa by Europeans and its partition among European powers in the late Nineteenth Century.
Offered by correspondence only: F, 1981-82.
CojJonial rule in eastern Africa and African response. The emergence of African nationalism and resistance movements: the Mau Mau episode. Attainment of independence and major issues thereafter..
Offered by correspondence only: W, 1981-82.
A study of the impact of modern racism and the assertion of black independence and identity. International dimensions Illustrated from Africa and the United States, with special emphasis on the black experience in Canada.
instructor: Walker
The course will focus on selected themes in the development of the Russian state and society from the beginning of Romanov rule to the middle of the nineteenth century.
instructor: Davies
The course will focus on selected themes in Russia’s development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the Soviet period. Instructor: Davies
The course will examine the growth of Ontario from a pioneer settlement, with particular emphasis on economic, social, political and cultural aspects of change. An emphasis will also be placed on the sources and methods of local historical research. Instructor: MacGillivray
The course will examine the emergence of Ontario as an industrial giant and the development of its hegemony in Canada. An emphasis will also be placed on the sources and methods of local historical research.
instructors: Cornell, MacGillivray
Study in a limited field under tutorial guidance. A high standard of written work will be expected. Prerequisite: Honours History standing and permission of the instructor.
Not available to students with credit for 399A or B.
Study in a limited field under tutorial guidance. A high standard of written work will be expected. Prerequisite: Honours History standing and permission of the instructor.
Not available to students with credit for 399A or B.
Ail 400 courses are designed for fourth-year honours students. They are research seminars.
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The development of Western and Eastern Christianity to the end of the medieval period. Instructor: Klaassen
Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism from the Reformation to the present. Instructor: Klaassen
A comparative study of minorities, whose development in Canada was conditioned by political conflict, especially in time of war. Included are Doukhobors, Germans, Japanese, Hutterites, Mennonites, Quakers, and Jehovah's Witnesses. Instructor: Epp
Course Descriptions History
A comparative study of immigrant minorities, wnose Canadian experience involved cultural conflicts: discrimination in education, distorted imagery in the mass media, linguistic coercion, etc. Groups include: Arabs, Chinese, Italians, Jews, Poles, Portuguese, Ukrainians.
instructor: Epp
Origins and developments in Switzerland, Germany, and the Netheriands. Migrations to, and settlements in, Prussia, Russia and North America. Topics include church-state relations, community formation, separation and assimilation, and conflicts in the Great War.
Instructor: Epp
The world-wide Mennonite struggle for survival and meaningful identity in such settings as Communist Russia and Nazi Germany. Other topics: migrations to Latin America, assimilation in North America, new communities in Africa and Asia.
Instructor: Epp
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A study of spokesmen for radical reform of the church including Andreas Carlstadt, Thomas Muntzer, Caspar Schwenkfeldt, Sebastian Franck, Michaei Servetus and others.
Alternates with Hist 343G
Instructor: Klaassen
Offered at Conrad Grebel College
A study of Anabaptism and its place in the history of the Christian church and of the Reformation period. Alternates with Hist 344G.
Instructor: Klaassen
Offered at Conrad Grebel College
A survey of regional, religious and imperial rivalries from ancient to modern times, with emphasis on the 20th century and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
instructor: Epp
Renison College.
An introduction to the historical developement of European civilization from Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian origins to the emergence o sovereign states.
Instructor: Packull
An introduction to the historical development of Western societies from the Reformation to the present. The course will survey the economic, social and intellectual trends during the period.
Instructor: Packull
An examination of the Seventeenth-Century background for the Enlightenment era, especially the economic, political, social and intellectual ferment of the period. The study will focus on continental Europe.
Prereq: a first year History course or consent of instructor.
tnstructor: Packull
The term will focus on the Enlightenment itself, its religious and political implications, and the practice of Enlightened Despotism in France, Prussia.
Austria, and Russia..
Prereq: History 364R or consent of instructor. Instructor: Packull
The beginnings of early modern revolutions that accompanied the break-up of feudalism, touching on the Peasants’ Revolt of 1525, the English Revolution, the French Revolution, the revolutionary ideologies and the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Instructor: Packull
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Germany in 1918, the emergence of right-wing revolutionary ideologies and movements in Europe, revolution in China.
Instructor: Packull
St. Jerome’s College.
This course will survey various aspects of ancient western civilization. the foundations of political life, social organization, and intellectual development will be considered, including the development of the Greek city-state and the Roman Empire.
Instructor: Wahl
A survey of selected topics désigned to illustrate the development of medieval Europe. The end of the Roman political system and the formation of new political groupings, in the West, the origins of feudalism, the crusades, and the Renaissance of the 12th century will be among the subjects considered. Instructor: Wahi
This course will survey the chief features of early modern European society. Topics will include the Renaissance and Reformation, the expansion of Europe, Old Regime society, the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment.
Instructor: Smith
A survey of selected topics to illustrate the chief features of modern European history. Topics will include the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, liberalism, nationalism, and socialism, industrial society and the New Imperialism, the World Wars and their aftermaths.
Instructor: Smith
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Development in the Third World
Urbanization in the Third World
Food and Agriculture and integrated Rural Development in the Third World
Special Topics in the Study of Third World Development
Major Themes of Western Civilization, 1 and 2
The Enlightenment 1, Europe in Ferment
The Enlightenment 2, Europe in the 18th Century
History of Moderh Revolutions 1
History of Modern Revolutions 2
Religious Studies
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