90 courses in the 1985–86 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
Associate Professor, Chairman of the
Department
J.W. Walker, BA (Toronto), MA (Waterloo), PhD (Dathousie)
Associate Professor, Associate Dean
(Special Programs), Faculty of Arts
J.O. Stubbs, BA (Toronto), MSc (Econ) (London), DPhil (Oxford)
Assistant Professor, Undergraduate
Officer
D.J. Horton, BA (Waterloo Lutheran), MA (Waterloo), PhD (McGill)
Professors
P.G. Comell, ED, MA, PhD (Toronto) FRHistS
M.J. Craton, BA (London), MA, PhD (McMaster) FRHIstS
F.H. Epp, BA (Bethe! College), MA, PhD (Minnesota), LLD (Brandon) G
F.C. Gérard, MA (College St. Dominique, France), BD, STM (McGill), PhD (Hartford, Conn.) P
L.T. Guelke,? BSc (Cape Town), MA (York), PhD (Toronto)
P.J. Harrigan, BA (Detroit), AM, PhD (Michigan) .
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)
Associate Professors
D.A. Davies, BA, PhD (Washington), Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
K.D. Eagles, BA (Cambridge), MA, PhD (Washington)
J.R. English, BA (Waterloo), AM, PhD (Harvard)
S.K. Johannesen, BA (Evangel College), MA, PhD (Missouri)
R.C. Macgillivray, BA (Queen's) AM, PhD (Harvard)
K.M. McLaughlin, BA (Waterloo), MA (Dathousie), PhD (Toranto) J
W.O. Packull, 8A (Guelph), MA (Waterloo), PhD (Queer’s) G
E.P. Patterson, BA (Baylor), MA (Kansas), PhD (Washington)
R. Sawatsky, BChEd (CMBC), BA (Bethel College), MA (Minnesota), MA, PhD (Princeton) G
J.A. Wahl, CR, BA (Western Ontario), MA, PhD (St. Louis) J
History
Assistant Professor D.E. Wright, BA (Cambridge), MA, PhD (McMasier)
Adjunct Faculty
K.R. Davis, BA (Toronto), MA (Wheaton), PhD (Michigan)
R.P. Fuke, BA (Toronto), MA (Maryland), PhD (Chicago)
D. McNab, 8A (Waterloo Lutheran), MA (McMaster), PhD (Lancaster)
S. Shortt, BA (McGill), MA (Carleton), PhD (Queen's), MD (Western Ontario)
Faculty Member of History holding cross appointment to: Classical Studies
Faculty Member holding cross appointment to History from: ?Geography
G refers to faculty members at Conrad Grebel College
J refers to faculty members at St. Jerome's College
P refers to faculty members at St. Pauls College
R refers to faculty members at Renison
College ..
Course Descriptions
Courses not offered in the current
academic year are listed at the end
of this section.
Introductory Notes
100 Level: Introductory Courses.
For First Year Arts students and for all other students interested.
200-249: Survey Courses.
Primarily intended for non-History Majors.
but open to History Majors.
250-258: 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 previ ously taken a history course.
400 Level: Senior Seminars Intended for senior History Honours students.
A thematic introduction to the development of the world’s major civilizations. This year’s theme is “Community and Social Order", examining the dynamic relationship between individuals and their social structures, and their state.
The American identity 1607-1980
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.
An analysis of the diplomatic, political, economic, ideological, social and cultural explanations of the causes of the major wars of this century with special emphasis on Canada.
HIST 1020 W 05 From Nationalism to Totalitarianism The growth of nationalism and nation states since the French Revolution with attention ta the Industrial: Revolution, the World Wars, Fascism, Naziism and Stalinism.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
Selected major themes from pioneer life to Canadian involvement in 20th century wars.
Offered at St. Jerome's College in the Winter term.
An exploration of some of the questions and answers posed by thinkers on the human predicament from Renaissance and Reformation times to the modem period. Readings range from Luther to J.P. Sarte, Shakespeare to Marx and Freud.
This course will survey the chief features of early modern European society. Topics will include the Renaissance and Reformation, Olid Regime society, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
16.75
A study of the historical origins and nature of contemporary problems in the Caribbean and central America, from colonial times down to the U.S. intervention in Grenada.
500-1000 A study of the laws and legal procedures of the Early Middle Ages. Anglo- Saxon and Germanic law will be examined along with legal procedures and institutions of that era.
Offered at St. Jerome's College.
This course aims to help the student develop a framework for understanding the histories and cultures of India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Two themes given extensive study are the related issues of imperialism and modernization, the latter here defined as profound changes in the following areas: economic, social, cultural and potitical.
This course will introduce students, through interrelationships and interaction of selected themes, to the contemporary history of Europe, North America, and the Far East. Its format includes 2 interpretive lectures per week plus major films on 20th century crises and discussion groups.
A history of the 20th century. through films. The First World War, Europe between the Wars, the Second World War, North American ‘society in the 20th century and other political, moral and social themes will be explored.
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.
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.
The course examines the cultural, moral, social and economic adaptations of European settlers to the Upper Canadian frontier environment.
A study of the development of business in Canada at both the general economic and the individual enterprise level.
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.
Traditional and radical historians examine the Cold War: American- Russian rivalry, 19th century; Wilson vs. Lenin; F.D.R., Truman and Stalin; containment, coexistence, and the politics of crisis from 1945 to the present.
An historical introduction to law in the
Ancient world. Babylonian, Assyrian.
Hittite and Roman law and tegal prac-
tices and concepts will be examined. Offered at St. Jerome's College.
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 dévelopments will be examined.
A survey of the shaping of British society and the British experience from the time of Shakespeare to the present: constitutional conflict and compromise, tise and fall of empire, industrial and urban revolution, world wars and welfare state.
This course examines historically the formation of a distinct modern western popular culture, looking primarily at Britain, France, Canada and the United States from around 1850 to the present, and emphasizing such aspects as: industrialism and leisure, the family and sexual attitudes, religion and popular belief, education and literacy, drinking habits, organized sport and mass entertainment.
A survey of the role of missionaries in imperiat history since 1500. Native responses to evangelicization will be studied. Some comparisons will be made with indigenous response to Christianity in pre-modern times.
Political, social and religious history of Ireland from the beginning of the golden age of Irish medieval civilization to the Act of Union, c.400 to 1800.
Polifical, social and religious history of lreland emphasizing social change, the © struggle for Home Rule and the Republic, 1800 to present.
The development of Germany from the Austrian-Prussian rivalry of 1740 through the end of World War il.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An introduction to historical explanations
of revolutions with special focus on
social change and revolutionary theories.
The French, Russian and Chinése Revo-
lutions will be used as case studies. Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
Course Descriptions History
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.
A survey of regional, religious and impe-
rial rivalries from ancient to modern
times, with emphasis on the 20th
century and the Arab-\sraeli conflict. Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
The Catholic Church in Canada: From the French Regime to Confederation An examination of the Catholic Church in Canada from the time of Brebeuf and the missionaries through the French and British regimes up to and including Confederation.
Offered at St. Jerome's College
A study of the relationship between the church and the governments of several Latin American countries in the 19th and 20th centuries.
An evaluation of the causes and effects of revolutions in Latin America with special emphasis on Nicaragua.
in Canada since Confederation, with an emphasis on social and political influences.
Offered at St. Jerome's College
The development of Christianity in its Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant traditions from the time of Christ to the present. Offered at Conrad Grebel College. Cross-listed as R S 230.
History
A study of the civilizations of the
Ancient Near East focussing: on Meso-
potamia (Sumer and Akkad, the Babylo-
nian Dynasty and the Third Dynasty of
Ur), Hatti, Assyria, Egypt and Persia. Offered at St. Jerome's College
An introduction to the social, political
and cultural history of Rome in its
development from a Republic to an
Empire. Special attention will be placed
on the sources of political power. Offered at St. Jerome's College.
Canada
A comparative study of the cultural and’ political conflicts with society and state: of such ethnic and religious minorities as Doukhobors, Hutterites, Jehovah's ‘ Witnesses, Jews, and Mennonites (including the Amish). Emphasis on 20th century.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
This course covers Mennonite origins, teachings, migrations, settlement patterns, divisions, leaders, institutions, and religious and social practices, indeed all facets of Mennonite history in various national settings.
- Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An examination of the history of relations between the two countries until 1914. Topics of a political, economic, social and cultural nature will be studied.
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.
The political, cultural, economic and
ecclesiastical development of Europe
from Charlemagne to Philip IV of France. Offered at St. Jerome’s College.
European social and cultural history, 1815-1914. This course will consider the inter-relations between ideas and institutions during a period of industrialization, urbanization and mass education.
The evolution of Canadian society in the face of dominant British and American influences..
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Period
This course studies the development of
Modern Canada. Themes of the course
include immigration, industrialization.
feminism, labour unrest, and regionalism. Also offered at St. Jerome's College
in Winter term.
The history of the British Empire down to the American War of independence,’ telling the story of the Tudor seadogs, of the plantation of ireland, the settlement of the North American mainland, the establishment of slave plantations in the Caribbean, and the earliest British enterprises in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
The history of British imperialism between the loss of the American colonies and the Falklands Islands War of 1982, tracing the rise of the settlement colonies to dominion status, the huge expansion of the dependent empire during the age of the New imperialism, the imperial apogee after World War |, and the rapid change from Empire to New Commonwealth after World War Il.
1865
The settlement of Engtish North America, British colonial society, the American Revolution, politics and culture in the American Republic, the Civil War. A special emphasis on religious and political culture.
1860
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.
16.77
The idea of History
The course is an introduction to the Philosophy of History and to the art of historical writing. tt deals with the great theoretical issues influencing historical analysis and with the classics of historical literature. It is equally concemed with the practical problems of historical research.
A history of the English reformation, expansively considered from the beginnings of the European Reformation to the establishment of the Anglican: church in the Revolutionary and Restoration periods in the 17th century.
A study of people, power, thought and culture in the world's first industrializing society.
A study of the British experience and of Britain's part in world history from the 1860's to the 1980's
The course will treat the history of Quebec from 1867 to the present. Nationalism, separatism, language and cultural problems, economic and social issues are all examined in their historical context.
A study of the emergence of the United States as a world power in its international and domestic context, with particular emphasis on the 20th century.
1870's
"From Freedom to Conquest”. The history of Indian-white contact and its effect on the life and culture of the native Canadians.
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.
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16,78
- HIST 329 W O05 History of Anglo-American Law The emphasis will be on the early development of the common law in England and the formulation of constitutional law in the United States. Offered at St. Jerome's College
A study of French society and the four revolutions that influenced it with particular attention to social and institutional forces. _
An examination of the minorities phenomenon in the context of national, regional, and international power struggles and the resulting discriminations, refugee movements, international dispersions, arid conflicts in new settings. Emphasis on 20th century. Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
Special issues examined in historical context include church/state conflicts in education, conscription and social policies, and such phenomena as nonconformity, internal divisions, organizational proliferation, theological shifts, changing forms of leadership, and issues of identity. .
Offered at Conrad Grebe! College.
A study of 16th century Anabaptism-a
retigious Reformation movement .
dissenting from both Protestantism and
Roman Catholicism-its origins, its social
political and theological content, and its
relationship to such independent
dissenters as Sebastian Franck. Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
A study of the Caribbean region from aboriginal times, including European imperialism, the history of plantations, slavery and siave society, independence movements, and the problems posed by modernization, underdevelopment and neo-colonialism.
The course will focus on selected themes in Russia’s development in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the Soviet period.
This course will introduce students to quantitative analysis of historical data. After a brief introduction to basic SPSS Statistical programs, students will develop a research scheme and analyze machine-readable historical data.
An analysis of the economic changes, the rise of “new monarchs,” the nature of and effect of the "religious reformation,” the expansion of Europe to the *new world” with their implications for 16th century Europe.
Offered at Conrad Grebel College.
An analytical and historical examination of the development of the Canadian nation from Confederation to the First World War.
Laurier to Trudeau .
An analytical-and_ historical examination of Canadian foreign policy in the international system. Domestic sources of Canadian foreign policy and international sources of Canadian foreign policy are examined in detail.
A study of some of the major visions of evil in the West and their consequences in politics, economics, science and religion.
This course traces the main eras and issues in Southern history from the 16th century to the mid-20th century. Topics examined will include pre-revolutionary and antebellum South, the Trial of Tears, the Civil War and reconstruction, the New South, the “lost cause”, the era of Jim Crow, and the search for the central theme.
Study in a limited field under tutorial guidance. A high standard of written work will be expected.
Prereq: 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.
Prereq: Honours History standing and permission of the instructor
Not available to students with credit for 399A or B.
All 400 courses are designed for fourthyear Honours students. They are research seminars.
A letter grade for HIST 401A will be submitted only after completion of HIST 401B.
A letter grade for HIST 403A will be submitted only after completion of HIST 403B. Ci
A letter grade for HIST 405A will be submitted only after the completion of HIST 405B.
A letter grade for HIST 407A will be submitted only after the completion of HIST 407B.
A letter grade for HIST 409A will be sumitted only after the completion of HIST 409B.
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