York University
Graduate Program in History
History 6030
CANADIAN HISTORY FIELD SEMINAR
(Draft to be updated)
2016-17
Course Director:
Office hours:
Professor Marlene Shore, 2184 Vari Hall
[email protected]
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 subthemes, 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
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
WINTER TERM
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
The New Economy
M. Shore
April
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 InterDisciplinary 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, 17841870
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 BasCanada)
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.
176-200
*Michèle Dagenais, “The Municipal Territory: A Product of the Liberal Order?,” ibid., p.
201-220
Ramsay Cook and Réal Bélanger eds., Canada’s Prime Ministers, Macdonald to Trudeau
(en français: Les premiers ministers du Canada de Macdonald à Trudeau)
8. Christianity
Roberto Perin, “French-Speaking Canada from 1840,” in Terence Murphy and Roberto
Perin, eds., A Concise History of Christianity in Canada
William Westfall, Two Worlds: The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ontario
*Marta Danylewycz, Taking the Veil: An Alternative to Marriage and Motherhood and
Spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920 (translated as: Profession religieuse: un choix par les
Québécoises, 1840-1920)
*Brian McKillop, A Disciplined Intelligence: Critical Inquiry and Canadian Thought in the
Victorian Era
Lynne Marks, Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure, and Identity in Small-Town
Ontario
9. Colonizing Native Peoples
Keith Carlson, The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical
Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism
J.R. Miller, Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools
*Irene Spry, “The Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons in Western Canada,” in Ian A.L.
Getty and Antoine S. Lussier, eds., As Long as the Sun Shall Shine
*Sarah Carter, “Two Acres and a Cow: Peasant Farming for the Indians of the Northwest,
1889-97,” Canadian Historical Review, March 1989, 27-52.
*Michelle A Hamilton, “'Anyone Not on the List Might as Well Be Dead':
Aboriginal People and the Censuses of Canada, 1851-1916,” Journal of the Canadian
Historical Association, 2007, 57-79.
*Robin Jarvis Brownlie, “'A Better Citizen Than Lots of White Men': First
Nations Enfranchisement - an Ontario Case Study, 1918-1940,' Canadian Historical
Review, March 2006, 29-52.
*Bill Parenteau, “'Care, Control, and Supervision’: Native People in the Canadian Atlantic
Salmon Fishery,” Canadian Historical Review, March 1998, 1-35.
10. The Clash of Ideologies
Fernande Roy, Progres, harmonie, liberté: le libéralisme des milieu d’affaires
francophones de Montréal au tournant du siècle
* Carl Berger, The Sense of Power: Studies in the Ideas of Canadian Imperialism, 18671914
Sylvie Lacombe, La rencontre de deux peoples élus: comparaison des ambitions nationale
et impériale au Canada entre 1896 et 1920, Part One.
* Ian McKay, Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People’s Enlightenment in Canada,
1890-1920
11. War
David Mackenzie, ed., Canada and the First World War
* Desmond Morton, When Your Number's Up: The Canadian Soldier in the First World
War
* Jonathan Vance, Death So Noble: Meaning, Memory, and the First World War
12. Environment and Landscapes
H.V. Nelles, The Politics of Development: Forest, Mines and Hydro-Electric Power in
Ontario, 1849-1941
Alan MacEachern, Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970.
*Sean Kheraj, Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
* Tina Loo, States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century
*Lynda Jessup, “The Group of Seven and the Tourist Landscape in Western Canada, or The
More Things Change...” Journal of Canadian Studies, 2002, 144-79. (Reprinted in Cynthia
R. Comacchio and Elizabeth Jane Errington, eds., People, Places, and Times: Readings in
Canadian Social History, vol. 2: Post-Confederation, ed., [Toronto: Thomson-Nelson,
2006], 462-82.)
13. The Working Class
* Bettina Bradbury, Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival
in Industrializing Montreal (translated as: Familles ouvrières à Montréal)
Joy Parr, The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men, and Change in Two
Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell, When the State Trembled: How A.J.
Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee of 1000 Broke the Winnipeg General
Strike
* Craig Heron, Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers' City
14. Culture and Modernity
Keith Walden, Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of
Late Victorian Culture
* H.V. Nelles, The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec’s
Tercentenary (translated as: L’Histoire spectacle: Le cas du tricentenaire de Québec)
* Ian McKay, The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth
Century Nova Scotia
Marcel Fournier, L'Entrée dans la modernité: science, culture et société au Québec
L.B. Kuffert, A Great Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture in
Canada, 1939-1967
15. Immigration and Ethnicity
Brian P. Clarke, Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an
Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895
Royden Loewen, Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and
New Worlds
*Bruno Ramirez, On the Move: French-Canadians and Italian Migrants in the North
Atlantic Economy.1860-1914 (translated as: Par monts et par vaux: migrants canadiensfrançais et italiens dans l’économie trans-atlantique, 1860-1914)
* Carmela Patrias, Patriots and Proletarians: Politicizing Hungarian Immigrants in
Interwar Canada
16. Social Reform and Regulation
*Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
Michael Gauvreau and Nancy Christie, A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches
and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940
Mariana Valverde, The Age of Light, Soap, and Water: Moral Reform in English Canada,
1885-1925
Craig Heron, Booze: A Distilled History
*Marlene Shore, The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the
Origins of Social Research in Canada
17. Race
*Constance Backhouse, Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Sarah-Jane Mathieu, North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada,
1870-1955
*Barrington Walker, Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958
Timothy J. Stanley, Contesting White Supremacy : School Segregation, Anti-racism, and the
Making of Chinese Canadians.
18. The State and Cultural Institutions
* Brian McKillop, Matters of Mind: The University in Ontario, 1791-1951
* Paul Litt, The Muses, the Masses and the Massey Commission
Marc Raboy, Missed Opportunities: The Story of Canada’s Broadcasting Policy
Michel Filion, Radiodiffusion et société distincte: des origins de la radio jusqu’à la
Révolution tranquille
19. The Politics of Protest [note: no class on this topic]
Ernest Forbes, The Maritime Rights Movement, 1919-1927: A Study in Canadian
Regionalism
Patricia Dirks, The Failure of the Action Libérale Nationale
Alvin Finkel, The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta
A.W. Johnson, Dream No Little Dreams: A Biography of the Douglas Government of
Saskatchewan, 1944-1961
20. The Welfare State
Nancy Christie, Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada
* Douglas Owram, The Government Generation: Canadian Intellectuals and the State,
1900-1945
*Jennifer Stephen, Pick One Intelligent Girl: Employability, Domesticity, and the
Gendering of Canada's Welfare State, 1939-1947
C. David Naylor, Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of
Health Insurance, 1911-1966
* Dominique Marshall, Aux origines sociales de l'État-providence: familles québécoises,
obligation scolaire et allocations familiales, 1940-1955 (translated as: The Social Origins of
the Welfare State: Québec Families, Compulsory Education, and Family Allowances, 19401955)
21. From Hot to Cold Wars
* Jeffrey Keshen, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada’s Second World War
* Reg Whitaker and Gary Marcus, Cold-War Canada The Making of a National Insecurity
State, 1945-1957
Franca Iacovetta, Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada
Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile, The Canadian War on Queers: National Security
Regulation as Sexual Regulation
22. Youth, Sex, and Family
Tamara Myers, Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945
Paul Jackson, One of the Boys: Homosexuality in the Military During World War II
*Christopher Dummit, The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada
*Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Indigenous Women, Work, and History, 1940-1980
Douglas Owram, Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby Boom Generation
23. The Politics of Quebec
Michael Gauvreau, The Catholic origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970
(translated as: Les origines catholiques de la Révolution tranquille)
* Guy Laforest, Trudeau et la fin d’un rêve canadien (translated as: Trudeau and the End of
a Canadian Dream), Ch. 1-2, 6, 8, and Conclusion
* Kenneth McRoberts, Political Crisis and Social Change (3rd ed.) (translated as
Développement et modernisation du Québec), Ch. 1, 5-7
Marcel Martel, Deuil d’un pays imaginé: rêves, luttes et déroute du Canada français. Les
relations entre Québec et la francophonie canadienne, 1867-1975
* Sean Mills, The Empire Within : Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties
Montreal
24. Native Peoples in the 20th Century
Renée Dupuis, Quel Canada pour les auchtochtones?: la fin de l’exclusion (translated as:
Justice for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples)
*William Wicken, The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928:
The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy.
*Sally Weaver, Making Canadian Indian Policy: The Hidden Agenda, 1968-70
Julie Cruikshank, Life Lived like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Elders (1990)
Sheleigh Grant, Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 (2002)
*Ian Mosby, "Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human
Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools,
1942–1952," Histoire sociale/Social History, May 2013, 145-172
25. The New Economy
Dimitri Anastakis, Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 19601971
Steven High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt, 1969-1984
*Joy Parr, Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar
Years
*Steve Penfold, The Donut: A Canadian History
Helpful Overviews
(Not Required)
Donald Avery, Reluctant Host: Canada’s Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896-1994
Carl Berger, The Writing of Canadian History : Aspects of English Canadian Historical
Writing Since 1900 (1986 ed.)
Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau, Christian Churches and Their Peoples, 1840-1965
Le collectif Clio, L’histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatres siècles (2nd. ed.)
Lucia Feretti, Brève histoire de l’Eglise catholique au Québec
Yves Frenette avec la collaboration de Martin Pâquet, Une brève histoire des Canadiens
français
Gerald Friesen, The Canadian Prairies
Craig Heron, The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History
Marcel Martel et Martin Pâquet, Langue et politique au Canada et au Québec
J.R, Miller, Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada
Alison Prentice et al., Canadian Women: A History
Jacques Rouillard, Histoire du syndicalisme québécois
Ronald Rudin, Making History in Twentieth-Century Quebec
Graham D Taylor and Peter A. Baskerville, A History of Business in Canada