HIS 311Y1-Y Introduction to Canadian International Relations

This course is a lecture-tutorial course designed to outline not only Canadian external relations but also imperial and foreign developments involving Canada as a colony or as an ally from 1750 to Stephen Harper.  Attention will be given to British and American defence and foreign policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they affect Canada.

Textbook(s):  J.L. Granatstein & N. Hillmer, Empire to Umpire; and R. Bothwell, The Big Chill, Irwin Publishers. Additional readings will be assigned in the tutorials.

Tentative Course Requirements:  term work (20%), two essays (20% each), and final exam (40%).

Recommended Preparation:  A course in Canadian history or politics.

Instructor:  R. Bothwell
Lecture:  TR 2
Tutorials:  TBA
Division:  II/III

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HIS 312H1-F Immigration to Canada

The course explores the peopling of Canada by newcomers from the time of the arrival of French settlers in early Canada and Acadia to recent decades, when peoples of diverse backgrounds have entered the country. Attention is paid to the making of immigration and multicultural policies, their implementation, and the relations between the host society and the newcomers. The focus, however, is on the immigrants themselves: their lives in the country of origin and reasons for leaving, the migration experience itself, early settlement and work in Canada, and life within immigrant enclaves and communities. Special attention is given to immigration as a gendered experience.

Textbook(s): Franca Iacovetta et al, eds., A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840-1960s.

Tentative Course Requirements: document analysis; research essay; and final exam.

Recommended Preparation: HIS262Y1/263Y1

EXCLUSION: HIS467H1

Instructor: I. Radforth
Lecture: T 3-5
Tutorials: TBA
Division: II

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HIS 313H1-S Canadian Labour History

This course surveys the rise and consolidation of the Canadian Labour Movement, state measures affecting workers on the job and during strikes and collective bargaining, and changing patterns of political action among working people.  By drawing on recent research, we also explore themes such as gender and ethnicity at the workplace, the impact of technological changes on the job, and working class family and community life.

Textbook(s):  Laurel Sefton MacDowell, Ian Radforth, eds., Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, 2nd ed.

PREREQUISITE: HIS262Y1/263Y1/ECO244Y1/WDW244H1/244Y1

EXCLUSION:  HIS313Y1

Instructor:  I. Radforth
Lecture:  W 5-7
Division:  II

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HIS 314H1-F Quebec and French Canada

A survey of French-Canadian history since the Confederation, including the evolution of a distinct society in Quebec as well as of French-Canadian communities elsewhere. Relations with English Canada, the federal state, and the North American economy will be examined. Among other topics: the influence of Catholicism on French-Canadian life, and the rise of a multicultural, democratic society in modern Quebec. For a general look at the field, students may consult Susan Trofimenkoff, Dream of Nation, or the more economically-focussed work of Brian Young & John Dickinson, A Short History of Quebec.

Instructor: A. Lachaine
Lecture: R 6-8
Division: II

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HIS 316H1-F History of Advertising

By the late twentieth century advertising had become one of the most common forms of discourse in the world, sometimes celebrated but often condemned and always discounted.  The course will trace the emergence of modern, or so-called mass advertising from its origins in the mid-19^th century up to the end of the 20^th century. Half of the presentations will deal with the years after 1950.  The presentations (a mix of lectures, documentaries, and many television commercials) consider advertising as a source of cultural power: the chief focus will be on the meanings and significance of advertising. Special attention will be paid to the public and moral narratives which have informed the general understanding of advertising.  The presentations will employ the interpretive frame of biopolitics (power over life) to explain the trajectories of advertising.  Much of the story will revolve around the American and Canadian experiences, particularly the birth and expansion of a culture of consumption in North America, though the presentations will draw at times upon British and European material and eventually probe the global dimension of advertising.

Textbook(s): Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America; Paul Rutherford, The New Icons?: The Art of Television Advertising; Endless Propaganda: The Advertising of Public Goods; and A World Made Sexy: Freud to Madonna.

Tentative Course Requirements: an in-class text-based exam, an analytical essay, a final exam.

Recommended Preparation: HIS262Y1/263Y1/271Y1

Instructor: P. Rutherford
Lecture: WF 10-12
Division: II

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HIS 317H1-S Modern Germany 1914 to the Present

This course surveys political, social and cultural developments in Germany from the beginning of the First World War to implementation of the Euro. Germany’s history as a unified nation has been short and unusually violent; its history provides a good test case of the political and social tensions generated by industrial modernity. First unified in 1871, Germany experienced no less than six state forms in the twentieth century ranging from the monarchical-authoritarian structure of the Second Empire, the liberal democracy of the Weimar Republic, the ‘racial state’ of the National Socialist dictatorship, the twin developments after 1949 of liberal democracy in the Federal Republic and ‘real existing socialism’ in the German Democratic Republic to the reunified state of Germany (often called the Berlin Republic) after 1990. This course explores the development of industrial society and political culture in Germany with special attention to political movements, class tensions, ethnic nationalism and anti-Semitism, and the development of conflict-management strategies, social policy (including racial policy) and modernist culture.

Textbook(s): Dietrich Orlow, A History of Modern Germany, 1871 to the Present,  6 ed.
Hans J. Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany

Tentative Course Requirements:  document analysis (20%), research essay (35%), midterm (15%), and final exam (30%).

PREREQUISITE:  HIS241H1/242H1 (one of these courses)

EXCLUSION:  HIS317Y1

Instructors:  H. Dichter
Lecture:  W 2-4
Division:  III

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HIS 320H1-F Barbarian Invasions and the Fall of the Roman Empire

This course surveys the major themes and figures for the period 300-600, including the following topics: the decline of Greco-Roman paganism, the rise of monotheism, conversion to Christianity, Neoplatonism and late antique education, the late Roman state, individual barbarian groups (Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, Burgundians, Vandals, Franks, Lombards), their culture and impact on the empire, Justinian’s reconquests.

Textbook(s):  (available in campus bookstore): Required: S. Mitchell, A History of the Later Roman Empire AD 284-641 (Blackwell, 2007)
M. Maas (ed.), Readings in Late Antiquity, a source book (Routledge, 2000)
P. Geary (ed.) Readings in Medieval History. vol. 1. 3rd ed. (Broadview, 2003).

Recommended: B. Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilisation (Oxford, 2005)

Tentative Course Requirements:  mid-term exam (25%); research essay (50%); final exam (in-class, final week) (25%).

Recommended Preparation:  some ancient history, ancient Greek or Latin language, early Christianity.

Instructor:  N. Everett
Lecture:  T 2-4
Division:  III

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HIS 322Y1-Y The High Middle Ages

The course is a chronological survey of the social, religious and institutional history of Medieval Europe from the year 1100 to approximately 1450.  In parallel to the study of the major political events of the period (concentrating more on France and England), we will also be looking at interactions between laity and ecclesiastical institutions, the daily life of various social groups and the perception of the “other”.

Textbook(s):  Clifford R. Backman, The Worlds of Medieval Europe, 2^nd ed.

Tentative Course Requirements:  participation (15%), two papers (40%), one mid-term exam (15%), and one final exam (30%).

PREREQUISITE:  HIS220Y1 or any course on the Middle Ages.

EXCLUSION:  HIS323Y1

Instructors:  I. Cochelin
Lecture:  W 2-4
Tutorial:  TBA
Division:  III
Pre-Modern:  ½ credit

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HIS 328H1-F Modern China Since 1800

This course is an examination of political, social and economic developments in Chinese history from 1800 to the present day.  It offers a bridge between introductory courses such as HIS 280Y and more advanced courses on China.  The course begins with a consideration of Western historiography of China.  The first half of the course covers the period from the Opium Wars to the 1911 Revolution.  We study the challenges that confronted Chinese society in the nineteenth century, the different kinds of responses, such as rebellion, reform and ultimately revolution, with which the Chinese met these challenges, and the strengths and weaknesses of these different responses.  The second half of the course is devoted to the twentieth century, and is divided into three roughly equal parts: the Republican period, the history of the Peoples Republic to 1976, and finally, the period of reform under Deng Xiaoping's leadership.  Throughout the course, students will read extensively from primary sources in translation.

Textbook(s):  TBA

Tentative Course Requirements:  TBA

Recommended Preparation:  HIS380Y1

PREREQUISITE:  HIS280Y1/EAS102Y1

EXCLUSION:  JMC201Y1

Instructor:  Y. Zhang
Lecture:  T 2-4
Division:  I

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HIS 331H1-S Modern Baltic History

This course is an examination of political, social, cultural and economic developments in Baltic history from 1900 to the present day.  Although the whole Baltic Sea region will be considered, special attention will be paid to the small Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.  We study the emergence of independent Baltic States in context of the Russian Revolution and the First World War, the interwar period of independence, the casualties of the Second World War, the fate and daily life of the Baltic nations under Soviet rule, the fall of the Soviet Union and the Baltic Revolution; national rebirth and the restoration of independence.  The course will conclude with discussion of some modern dilemmas, such as national and cultural identity, rewriting of history and European integration of the Baltic countries.

Textbook(s):  Toivo U. Raun, Estonia and the Estonians, Hoover Institution Press, 2nd ed., 2001; Andrejs Plakans, The Latvians: A Short History, Hoover Institution Press, 1995; John Hiden & Patrick Salmon, The Baltic Nations and Europe: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania in the Twentieth Century, Longman, 1995.

Tentative Course Requirements:  attendance, readings, participation (20%), test (10%), an essay (20%), and the final exam (50%).

Recommended Preparation:  HIS250Y1 or HIS251Y1 or permission of the instructor

EXCLUSION:  HIS331Y1

Instructor:  J. Kivimäe
Lecture:  W 5-7
Division:  III

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HIS 335H1-F Soviet Cultural History

This course will explore Russian culture – art, architecture, film, and literature – from 1917 to the collapse of the USSR.  Readings and screenings will trace the main developments of Soviet cultural history, from the Russian Avant-Garde and proletarian culture to socialist realism, and from Khrushchev’s “thaw” to Soviet village and urban prose of the 1960s and an example of Soviet postmodernism.  A key theme in the course is the intersection of culture, history, and revolution.  How is the Russian revolution represented and rewritten over time?  How is history itself a revolutionary project and for how long?  How do the utopian impulse of the 1920’s, the complexities of high modernism, and the official culture of “socialism in one country” relate to one another?  What does it mean when Stalin changes the title of a film originally called “Cinderella” to “The Shining Pat”?  Is dissidence limited to writing the Gulag Archipelago?  How did novels, films, and art respond to issues of class, ethnicity, nationality, and gender?

Textbook(s):  Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams; James Scott, Seeing Like a State; Shelia Fitzpatrick, Cultural Revolution in Russia; Elena Zubkova, Russia After the War, & novels and stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, Fyodor Gladkov, Alexandra Kollontai, Andrei Platonov, Yuri Trifonov, and Evgeny Zamyatin.

PREREQUISITE:  HIS250Y1

Instructor:  T. Lahusen
Lecture:  T 5-7
Division:  III

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HIS 337H1-S Culture, Politics and Society in Britain 1660-1789

Major themes in late seventeenth and eighteenth century British history with a thematic focus on political culture and the expansion of empire.  Topics covered include the British Enlightenment and the consumer revolution.

Textbook(s):  TBA, a course reader must also be purchased.

Tentative Course Requirements:  book review (30%), research essay (30%), and a final exam (40%).

Recommended Preparation:  EUR200Y1, HIS109Y1/238H1/239H1/243H1/244H1/368H1

EXCLUSION:  HIS337Y1

Instructor:  J. Mori
Lecture:  TR 1
Division:  III
Pre-Modern:  ½ credit

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HIS 338H1-F The Holocaust: Preconditions, Consolidation of Nazi Power, War, and Occupation (to 1942)

This is the first of two linked courses on the Holocaust, the program of mass killing carried out under the leadership of Nazi Germans during World War II. Destruction of Jews occupied the centre of Nazi ideology and practice. Accordingly, this course will examine varieties of antisemitism in Europe; German policies against Jews from 1933 to 1939; the expansion of terror with war and conquests in 1939, 1940, and 1941; and Jewish responses to persecution and extreme violence.  Particular attention will be paid to how the Nazi assault on Jews connected with attacks against other people within Germany and, after 1939, in German-occupied Europe: people deemed handicapped, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Afro-Germans, Sinti and Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war. The approach will be chronological, up to the end of 1941/beginning of 1942.

In addition to the lectures, students will attend bi-weekly tutorial groups to discuss the assigned readings. Films will be presented in conjunction with the course. Assignments include analysis of a primary source, a comparative book review, a mid-term test (in class), and a final examination.

Textbook(s):  TBA

Tentative Course Requirements:  analysis of a primary source, a comparative book review, a mid-term test, and a final examination.

Recommended Preparation:  a course in modern European history.

PREREQUISITE:  completion of 6 undergraduate full-course equivalents

EXCLUSION:  HIS338Y1/398Y1

Instructor:  D. Bergen
Lecture:   F 10-12
Tutorials: TBA
Division:  III

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HIS 340H1-S A Survey of Australian History

This course, which requires no previous knowledge of Australian history, introduces students to some of the principal themes in the history and historiography of Australia.  Beginning with an account of the Aboriginal cultures that had existed for millennia prior to the British occupation, the course looks at the circumstances that led the British government to found a convict colony in Botany Bay in 1788 and the long-term consequences, if any, of the convict origins of what quickly became an unusually democratic society.  Why did the British in the eighteenth century think Australia was terra nullius (and have contemporary Australians really changed their minds?) The course will then focus on the movement towards self-government, the internal voyages of discovery, the effect of the discovery of gold and the Eureka Stockade, the significance of Ned Kelly, the Irish bushranger, the importance and character of British immigration, and the sanctity of the White Australia Policy, as a key factor in the movement towards Federation in 1900.  Other topics will include the creation and continuing importance of the Labor Party, Australia’s role in the two twentieth century world wars, the Depression of the 1930s, the development of the republican movement and the alternation between the political right and the left since 1950.  The course will frequently consider changing relationships between aboriginal and non-aboriginal societies since 1788 and will pay particular attention to the process that led to the Mabo and Wik High Court decisions in the 1990s and the subsequent reaction of the Howard Government and, more recently of the Rudd government, to those decisions.  We will also focus on sectarian and class-based antagonisms that have been a constant theme since the earliest days (see Ned Kelly) and that have been a large part of the Labor Party difficulties throughout the twentieth century.

Textbook:  Stuart Macintyre, A Concise History of Australia; HIS 340H course book.

Tentative Course Requirements:  two written assignments, one of 1,500 words (15%) and one of 3,000 words (35%) and a final three hour exam (50%).

PREREQUISITE:  a first-year HIS course or permission of the instructor

Instructors:  J. Rivière
Lecture:  T 10-12
Division:  I

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HIS 343Y1-Y History of Modern Espionage

Espionage is a subject shrouded in myths.  Much of what we think we know about spying is filtered through novels and films. This course seeks to examine the historical rise to power of intelligence agencies in the twentieth century.  The evolution of spying is set in the context of major international developments, particularly the First World War, the Second World War and the Cold War. Within the framework of international relations history, we will explore the phenomenon of the ‘intelligence revolution.’  Particular attention will be given to the history of the spy services of Britain, Canada, the United States and the Soviet Union / Russia.  The popular culture of espionage will also be explored through a study of selected spy novels and films.  The course will end with a retrospective look at the lessons of twentieth century espionage and some speculation about what the future might hold in the post Cold-War world.

Textbook(s):  Will include a reader with selected articles and chapters, and a required text.  A detailed bibliography will be provided for students.

Tentative course requirements:  two written assignments, a midterm and a final exam.

Recommended Preparation:  HIS103Y1 or an equivalent introduction to modern international relations

Instructor:  W. Wark
Lecture:  M 12-2
Division:  III

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HIS 344Y1-Y Conflict and Co-operation in the International System Since 1945

This course examines the conduct and consequence of international politics in an atomic/nuclear age when the stakes of the “Great Game” were not just the fates of states and nations, but also the survival of humanity itself. The diplomatic, strategic and economic aspects of international relations will all receive appropriate elucidation.

Tentative Course Requirements:  two written assignments, a term test, and a final exam.

Recommended Preparation:  EUR200Y1/HIS103Y1/241H1/242H1

Instructor:  N. Gunz
Lecture:  T 5-7
Division:  III

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HIS 348H1-F Topics in Gender History:  Women in Medieval Culture, 1000-1500

This course will examine the representation and treatment of women in the literature culture of the later Middle Ages.  The course will begin by considering the social and economic factors that shaped the daily lives of women: women’s legal status, educational opportunities, work, family life, and sexual and religious norms.  The majority of the course will explore, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how literary, historical, philosophical, legal, theological and medical texts constructed and employed the notion of the feminine, and how such textual discourses affected the lives of medieval women.

Tentative Course Requirements:  participation (10%), short essay (10%), term exam (20%) research essay (30%), final exam (30%).

Instructor:  J. Ross
Lecture:  TR 3
Division:  III
Pre-Modern:  ½ credit

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HIS 349H1-S The British Search for Identity

This is an introductory course in the history of Britain from 1800 to the present day. The course will pay special attention to the changing role of monarchy. We will consider how the monarchy has defined its role in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, how it has weathered scandals and republican movements, and how its relationship with the media has evolved. Other themes will include race, ethnicity, gender and the welfare state. The intent is to put contemporary issues relating to the decline of Britain into historical perspective.

Textbook(s):  Document Book

Tentative Course Requirements:  book review (10%); one research essay (40%); tutorial participation (15%); final exam (35%).

EXCLUSION: HIS239H1

Instructor:  S. Amato
Lecture:  T 7-9
Tutorials:  TBA (bi-weekly)
Division:  III

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HIS 352H1-S Secularism and Strife: Modern Jewish Culture and Politics

Modern Jewish culture is the product of a dynamic interaction between two sets of opposed elements: religion versus secularism and the individual versus the collective.  This course will analyze the historical roots and development of the four possible combinations of these elements: the religious collective, the secular individual, the secular collective, and the religious individual.  Our starting point will be the invention of the modern Jewish self in the late 18th and 19th-century Jewish Enlightenment.  We will see how Jews reacted to new promises of personal freedom by reforming, reframing, and abandoning Judaism.  We will trace the connection between developments and the creation in the late 19th and 20th centuries of new forms of secular, collective Jewish identity through movements such as communism, diaspora nationalism, and Zionism.

Recommended preparation:  a course in Jewish, European, or Middle Eastern history.

Instructor:  F. Bialystok
Lecture:  R 2-4
Division:  I/II/III

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HIS 353Y1-Y The History of Poland from the 10^th Century

The course will survey the history of Poland as “melting pot” and as a borderland between Western and Eastern Europe.  The course will analyze the political and social history of Poland in its Central European context and will discuss the consequences of Christianization, the Polish-Lithuanian Union, the Partitions, two World Wars and the communist era.  All materials are in English.

Tentative Course Requirements:  two papers, a mid-term exam and a final exam.

PREREQUISITE:  HIS251Y1/permission of the instructor.

Instructor:  P. Wróbel
Lecture:  T 6-8
Division:  III
Pre-Modern:  ½ credit

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HIS 357Y1-Y Social History of Renaissance Europe

Social conditions changed in significant ways from fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries, as Europeans dealt with the economic, political, intellectual, and religious developments of the period.  The course will open with a selective review of some of these key developments, before turning to look at how they affected social structures and daily life.  We will approach this by means of the life cycle.  The course will focus in turn on issues related to Birth and Infancy (conception and contraception, midwifery, abandonment); Childhood and Adolescence (education, socialization), Marriage (dowry, age factors, kinship patterns, divorce); Work & Poverty (pre-industrial workplace, charity, poor relief, women and work); Crime & Punishment, Old Age & Death.  We will also look at how and why some groups were pushed to the margins of society (prostitutes, witches).  In each of these sections, we will look at how gender and social status shaped conditions and experiences.

Textbook(s):  a course reader and texts still to be determined.

Tentative Course Requirements:  participation (10%), 2 essays (25%, 35%), and a final exam (30%).

Recommended Preparation:  a course in Renaissance or Early Modern European History

EXCLUSION:  HIS357H1

Instructor:  N. Terpstra
Lecture:  T 1-3, R 1
Division:  III

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HIS 358H1-F Politics in Early Modern Europe

Deals with negotiations of authority in political arenas from c. 1500 to 1750. Topics to be covered include court culture, legal ceremony, diplomatic etiquette, urban ritual and riot.  Some background in medieval or early modern history recommended.

Instructor:  J. Mori
Lecture:  TR 2
Division:  III

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HIS 359H1-F Regional Politics and Radical Movements in the 20th Century Caribbean

This course examines the politics and problems of nationalism and national identity in the 20th century Caribbean.  Themes to be covered include the role of the United States in Caribbean politics; Haitian-Dominican relations; the Cuban Revolution; decolonisation in the British Caribbean; continuing colonialism in the French Caribbean; the problems of ‘development’ and ‘industrialization’ and the socialist and Black Power movements.

Textbook(s):  Franklin Knight, The Caribbean: Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990; Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd (eds.), Caribbean Freedom: Society and Economy from Emancipation to the Present, Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1993.

Tentative Course Requirements:  short essay, 5-7 pages (20%), final term paper, 10-12 pages (35%), final exam (35%), and class participation (10%).

Recommended Preparation:  HIS294Y1

Instructor:  M. Newton
Lecture:  W 11-1
Division:  II

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HIS 360Y1-Y African Canadian History

African people historically, have contributed to Canada's growth and development. They have had a presence here from the early seventeenth century. This course examines themes associated with their settlement, survival and struggle for justice, integration and community and institution building. At the outset, slavery in a Canadian context, Black Loyalists, involvement in the War of 1812 and factors creating, then eroding African-Canadian communities will be discussed. Fugitives from U.S. slavery and their flight toward nineteenth-century Canada via the Underground Railroad and less-known routes are issues for class discussion. So too is their participation in Canada's march from colony to nation. The impact of war and peace on African- Canadian communities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be central lecture components. Socio-historical, political and cultural developments and African-Canadian women's dynamic roles will provide the backdrop for understanding the emergence of newer African-Canadian communities after 1945. We will look at how they were shaped; labour-force participation; a changing ethos; education; and the development of human and civil rights' frameworks.

Recommended Preparation:  HIS263Y1

Instructor:  S. Taylor
Lecture:  W 6-8
Division:  II

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HIS 361H1-S The Holocaust from 1942

This is the second of two linked courses on the Holocaust, the program of mass killing carried out under the leadership of Nazi Germans during World War II. In this course, we will continue with a chronological approach, starting with 1942, a year that marked both the peak of German military power and a massive escalation in the murder of Jews.  Particular attention will be paid to the connections between the war and the Holocaust throughout the years 1942, 1943, 1944, and 1945. Issues to be addressed include resistance by Jews and non-Jews; local collaboration; the roles of European governments, the Allies, the churches, and other international organizations; and varieties of Jewish responses.  The last part of the course will focus on postwar repercussions of the Holocaust in areas such as justice, memory and memorialization, popular culture, and politics.

In addition to the lectures, students will attend bi-weekly tutorial groups to discuss the assigned readings.  Films will be presented in conjunction with the course.

Textbook(s):  TBA

Tentative Course Requirements:  analysis of a primary source, an essay, a mid-term test, and a final examination.

Recommended Preparation:  a course in modern European history.

PREREQUISITE:  completion of 6 undergraduate full-course equivalents and HIS338H1.

EXCLUSTION:  HIS338Y1

Instructor:  D. Bergen
Lecture:  F 10-12
Tutorials: TBA (bi-weekly)
Division:  III

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HIS 362H1-F The Hansa: The World of Merchants

This course seeks to examine the rise and decline of the Hanseatic League in medieval Europe from the late twelfth to the late sixteenth century.  Topics will include the organization of the German Hansa and its maritime activities; the Hanseatic long distance trade and the biographies of the Hanseatic merchants; the cultural aspects of the medieval communication.  Particular attention will be given to the daily life of the Hanseatic merchants in Western and Eastern Europe.  The very special idea of this course is to demonstrate the historical case of an early integration of Europe.
Besides the lectures a 3-part series film “The Hanseatic League” will be presented and discussed in conjunction with the course.

Textbook(s):  Philippe Dollinger, The German Hansa (1970); and a packet of readings compiled by the instructor.

Tentative Course Requirements:  a mid-term test (20%), an essay, 10-12 pages (30%), class participation (10%), and the final exam (40%).

PREREQUISITE:  HIS220Y1 or permission of instructor.

Instructor:  J. Kivimäe
Lecture:  W 5-7
Division:  III
Pre-Modern:  ½ credit

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HIS 363H1-S Gender in Canadian History

This is a lecture course, which deals thematically with gender issues in Canadian history (including familial roles, changing patterns of work and employment, and participation in the public sphere).

Tentative Course Requirements: TBA

PREREQUISITE:  HIS262Y1/263Y1

Instructor:  B. Retallack
Lecture:  W 6-8
Division:  II

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HIS 365H1-F History of the Great Lakes Region

This course is a survey of some key historical developments in the Great Lakes Region as a “trans-national space,” a region that transcends the “49^th parallel” but is simultaneously shaped by it.  At one level, the course is a chronological history of the region from early contact between native peoples and Europeans to the 1980s; at another level, it aims to provide a thematic consideration of how a “region” gets made over time.  By focusing on the region as a unit of analysis, students are encouraged to question and de-emphasize the national border as an organizing principle of historical knowledge, and to ask what alternative geographies might better capture the complexities of change.  To this end, some attention is given to local histories within the region (e.g. of Toronto and other cities) and to whether the region’s history reflects local trends or broader forces in North America and the world.

Topics and themes may include: the movement of people, commodities, and ideas into and inside the region; southern Ontario’s place in continental history; the building of transportation networks; urbanization and industrialization; competition between Great Lakes cities for metropolitan status; the relationship between cities and hinterlands; urban and rural cultures; the making of the border as a real or imagined boundary; the importance of race, class, and gender to the social history of the region; nationalism and regionalism; deindustrialization and urban crisis; and changing ideas of geography and environment (particularly regarding the Lakes themselves).

Tentative Course Requirements:  tutorial participation (20%), assignments (50%), and final exam (30%).

PREREQUISITES:  HIS263Y1 or HIS271Y1

Instructor:  S. Penfold
Lecture:  T 12-2
Tutorials:  TBA (bi-weekly)
Division:  II

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HIS 368H1-F Early Modern Britain, 1485-1660

This is an introduction to the political, social and religious history of early modern England, Scotland and Ireland.  Particular attention will be paid to the Protestant Reformation, the development of political culture and relations between different parts of the British Isles.

Textbook(s):  TBA, a course reader must also be purchased.

Tentative Course Requirements:  research essay (25%), primary source report (25%), final exam (30%) and tutorial participation (20%).

Recommended Preparation:  EUR200Y1, HIS109Y1/239H1/243H1/244H1

EXCLUSION:  HIS238H1

Instructor:  J. Mori
Lecture:  TR 11
Tutorials:  TBA
Division:  III
Pre-Modern:  ½ credit

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HIS 369H1-S Aboriginal Peoples of the Great Lakes

This course explores the history of Aboriginal peoples peoples (Indigenous and Métis) living in the Great Lakes Region for the 16^th century to the present day.  Through lectures and course readings we will consider questions of identity, cultural tradition & continuity, socio-political organization, sovereignty, autonomy, diplomacy, economic activities and community life.  The principal focus of the course will be on Aboriginal historical experience by the dynamic of aboriginal/non-aboriginal relations will also be discussed, including the processes of missionization & colonization.  Specific topics will include a comparative examination of approaches to history, time, world views, early encounters, the impact and significance of the fur trade, key alliances and diplomatic strategies, the Sixty Years War for the Great Lakes, the treaty and land surrender process, the impact of the Indian Act and residential schools, Indigenous leadership, the quest for self-determination and self-government, and contemporary reserve and urban community issues.  Students will have the opportunity to pursuer in-depth study on a specific topic of interest through their written term work.

Textbook(s):  Reading package assembled by the Professor.

Tentative Course Requirements:  Primary source analysis, essay, tutorial participation, exam.

Instructor:  H. Bohaker
Lecture:  W 6-8
Tutorials: TBA (bi-weekly)
Division:  II
Pre-Modern: ½ credit

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HIS 370H1-S The Black Experience In The United States Since The Civil War

This course will examine black history from emancipation until recent times, covering a broad range of economic, social, political, and cultural issues and dealing with, among other topics: segregation and disfranchisement; the Great Migration; emergence of the ghetto; the Civil Right Movement; gender relations and family life; popular culture and leadership.

PREREQUISITE:  HIS271Y1

Instructor:  M. Wayne
Lecture:  MW 11
Division:  II

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HIS 371H1-S 19^th Century Imperial Russia

This course focuses on the political, social, intellectual and cultural history of nineteenth century Russia, though we will be taking our discussion into the early twentieth century.  The period from the Napoleonic Wars to the end of the empire was one of remarkable change, rich in drama and historical problems.  Major topics include the rise of a Russian intelligentsia, reform and counter-reform, the nationality question, modernization, the woman questions, and revolutionary movements.

Textbook(s): Turgenev, Fathers and Sons; Rostislavov, Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment; Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, Village Life in Late Tsorist Russia; Lenin, Essential Works of Lenin

Tentative Course Requirements:  Prospectus (15%), research paper (35%), final exam (35%), and class participation (15%).

PREREQUISITE:  HIS250Y1 or permission of the instructor.

EXCLUSION:  HIS325Y1

Instructor:  N. Young
Lecture:  T 10-12
Division:  III

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HIS 376H1-S The United States: Now—And Then

An exploration of some of the historical roots of issues that are of particular importance to understanding the United States of the early 21st century: e.g., the war in Iraq and U.S. global leadership (or hegemony); the impact of globalization on the domestic economy; cultural innovation vs. neo-conservatism.

PREREQUISITE: HIS271Y1

Instructor: R. Pruessen
Lecture: TR 10
Division: II

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HIS 377H1-F 20^th Century American Foreign Relations

This course surveys the history of American foreign relations from World War I to the present.  Themes of the course include the rise of the United States as a major power; the role of culture and ideology in international relations; and the implications of foreign policy for American national identity.

PREREQUISITE:  HIS271Y1/372Y1/POL208Y1

Instructor:  G. Stewart
Lecture:  R 11-1
Tutorials:  TBA (bi-weekly)
Division:  II

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HIS 378H1-S America in the 1960s

Instructor:  B. Beaton
Lecture:  R 3-5
Division:  II

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HIS 380H1-S Late Imperial China

This course is an intensive survey of Chinese history from the end of the 10th century to the end of the 18th. The course proceeds chronologically from the Song to the Qing dynasty. Political history will provide a framework for the four main themes: growth of the commercial economy, elaboration of social structure, evolution of modes of social control, and diversification of intellectual and cultural practices.

Textbooks: F. Mote, Imperial China; Morris Rossabi, Khubilai Khan; Timothy Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure. In addition to reading the assigned texts, we will also analyze primary documents in translation in tutorial.

PREREQUISITE: EAS102Y1/HIS107Y1/280Y1

Instructor: Y. Zhang
Lecture: R 2-4
Division:   I

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HIS 383H1-F African Women from Colonialism to the Era of Structural Adjustment

The course covers the period from colonialism to the era of structural adjustment.  It challenges the way African history has been written in the past.  The course will particularly interest those who seek a better understanding of how gender transforms political and economic processes and vice versa.

Textbook(s):  Jean Allman, Susan Geiger & Nakanyike Musisi eds., Women in African Colonial Histories (Indiana University Press, 2002); Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy eds., “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa Heinemann, (2001)

Tentative Course Requirements:  Analytical Review (20%), Research Paper (35%), Take Home Exam (30%), Class Attendance and Participation (15%).

PREREQUISITE:  NEW150Y1/HIS295H1

Instructor:  N. Musisi
Lecture:  M 2-4
Division:  I

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HIS 385H1-S History of Hong Kong

This course examines the growth of Hong Kong from a trading port set up by the British Empire for their China trade in the mid-19th century, to the city’s rise as a major centre of the world economy and of the Chinese diaspora since the mid-20th century. It focuses on both Hong Kong’s internal developments and broader contexts.

Recommended Preparation: HIS280Y1/232Y1/JMC201Y1

EXCLUSION: HIS385Y1

Instructor:  C. Lim
Lecture:  T 1-3
Division:  I

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HIS 387H1-F France, 1610-1848

This course considers the history of France, from the rise of absolutist monarchy under the seventeenth-century, Bourbon monarchs, through Enlightenment, the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire, and the Restoration, to the fall of the constitutional monarchy in 1848.  Particular attention will be paid to the character of social life under the Old Regime, the emergence of the central state, the place of France in European war and diplomacy, the French colonial experience in the Americas, the transition between divine right monarchy and republicanism, economic development, and social and cultural change.  Students will study a variety of primary sources as well as historiographical perspectives.

PREREQUISITE:  one course in HIS/FRE

Instructor:  C. Dale
Lecture:  F 10-12
Division:  III

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HIS 388H1-S France Since 1848

This course explores modern and contemporary France, from the Revolution of 1848 to the 1990’s.  We will examine in detail fin-de-siecle culture and society, as well as major political dramas and traumas, including the Paris Commune, the Dreyfus Affair, the Vichy regime, and the wars of decolonization.  Beyond the realm of politics, the course delves into a number of social, intellectual and cultural themes including pluralism and feminism in France, the place of intellectuals in French society, and forms of French cultural expression.  Finally, the course opens a window onto the broader French-speaking world, by analysing colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as the emergence of la Francophonie. The course includes several related cultural activities, including a visit to the Centre Sablé.

Tentative Course Requirements:  one essay and a final exam.

PREREQUISITE:  EUR200Y1/one course in HIS/FRE

EXCLUSION: HIS388Y1

Instructor:  TBA
Lecture:  W 10-12
Division:  III

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