History CoursesNote: Many of these courses are not taught every year. Please check the Arts & Science timetable or the HIS Department website for the list of courses offered in 2010-11. |
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First Year Seminars The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details here. 100-Series Courses Note: All 100-series HIS courses are mutually exclusive. First-Year students may take 200-series courses. HIS103Y1 An analysis of the development of the international system, fROM 1648 to 1945, which highlights the role of war as an instrument of national policy, as a determinant of the system of states and as a threat to international society. HIS104Y1 The events siNCE 1600, the consequences of which continue to resonate through primary documents, historical additional reconstructions, students are exposed to the processes by which the past is given meaning. Students are encouraged to be aware of the impact of events and be sensitive to the inter-connectedness of the past. HIS106Y1 North and South America and the Caribbean from Columbus to the American Revolution: aboriginal cultures, European exploration, conquest and settlement, the enslavement of Africans, the ecological impact of colonization. HIS107Y1 This course draws on the history of China, Korea and Japan betwEEN 1600 to 1950 to explore historical issues of gender, nationalism, war and relations with the West. HIS109Y1 The shape of traditional society; the forces at work on the social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual structures of Western Europe since the high Middle Ages: the structure of Traditional Society; the First Period of Challenges, 1350-1650; the Second Period of Challenges, 1650-1815; Confidence, Stability and Progress, 1815-1914; the Collapse of the Old Order and the Condition of Modern Europe, 1914-1945. HIS202H1 This course examines scientific ideas about human difference from the 18th-century to the present. It explores how scientists and their critics portrayed the nature of race, sex difference, and masculinity/femininity in light of debates over nation, citizenship, colonialism, emancipation, knowledge and equality. The course will also introduce students to the uses of gender and race as analytic categories within the practice of history. While the course draws much of its subject matter from the history of the United States, it also explores selective issues in European and colonial contexts. HIS208Y1 An introduction to the history of the Jews throughout the world over the past two thousand years. HIS220Y1 Economic, political, religious, and educational ideas and institutions of the Middle Ages, from the late Roman period to the fifteenth century. HIS241H1 An introduction to modern European history from Napoleon to the outbreak of World War I. Important political, economic, social, and intellectual changes in France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and other countries are discussed: revolution of 1848, Italian and German unification, racism and imperialism, the evolution of science, art, and culture, labour protest, and the coming of war. HIS242H1 The evolution of European politics, culture, and society fROM 1914: the two world wars, Fascism and Nazism, the post-1945 reconstruction and the movement towards European integration. HIS243H1 The political, social, economic, and intellectual history of continental Europe. The Renaissance, the Reformation, Counter-reformation, growth of the territorial monarchies, the religious wars. HIS244H1 The political, social, economic, and intellectual history of continental Europe. Development of royal absolutism, social change and the crisis of the ancient regime, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era. HIS245Y1 An introductory survey tracing women’s participation in the political, economic, intellectual, and social history of Europe from the High Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. HIS250Y1 This course is an introductory survey that examines the political, social, and cultural developments that shaped the Russian empire from the settlement of Kiev in the 9th century to the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. HIS251Y1 The Polish, Czech, and Hungarian background; the Balkans in the late medieval and early modern periods. Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-reformation, decline and national awakening to the beginning of the 19th century. Partitioned Poland, nationalism in the 19th century; World War I, Peace Settlement, interwar years and the Communist period. HIS263Y1 An introductory survey to the major events and trends that have shaped the political, social and economic history of Canada, including the challenges of indigenous-newcomer and French-English relations over more than four centuries of interactions. HIS271Y1 A survey of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the United States from the colonial era to present times. HIS280Y1 A broad overview of the history of China from earliest times to the present. The emphasis is on how the meaning of China and the Chinese people has changed through history. HIS281Y1 Political, military, social, economic, and intellectual history of Japan from beginning of Tokugawa period (1603) to the present. Emphasis on the long term modernization and democratization of Japan, and passage through imperialism and militarism to peace. HIS282Y1 An introductory survey addressing major themes in the history of South Asia, examining South Asian political economy, social history, colonial power relations and the production of culture. Emphasis is on the period afTER 1750, particularly the study of colonialism, nationalism, and postcolonial citizenship and modernity. HIS283Y1 This course surveys the historical experiences of the states that constitute present-day Southeast Asia and examines how long term socio-economic trends affected the daily lives of Southeast Asians. Lectures introduce the major themes while weekly readings explore the major themes of the course: “state” structure; cultural commonalities; ethnic, class and gender relations; religious practice and trade. HIS284Y1 Examines the history of Viet Nam from its mythical origins to the contemporary period,exploring the country’s long experience with Chinese and South Asian cultural influence. Themes include Sinicization and Indianization; constructions of gender; state formation; the introduction and impact of the world religions; colonization and nationalism; and the impact of globalization. HIS291Y1 The evolution of Spanish and Portuguese America from pre-Columbian civilizations to the wars of independence. HIS292Y1 A survey of Latin American history from the wars of independence to the present day. HIS294Y1 An exploration of changes in the structure of Caribbean society beginning in 1492, including European contact, the conquest of native peoples, the emergence of large plantations, the impact of slavery, patterns of resistance and revolt and the changes brought about by emancipation. HIS296Y1 This course explores the profound contribution of people of African descent – from Olaudah Equaino to Angela Davis – to the history of the idea and practice of freedom in the West. Black writers and historical actors have been at the vanguard of re-conceiving, implementing, and realizing the Enlightenment project of freedom. HIS297Y1 This survey of African history is analytical rather than narrative in its approach. It rethinks the way that “African” history has hitherto been conceptualized and taught by placing the question of gender at the center of the story of Africa. HIS299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here. 300-Series Courses Note: First-year students are not permitted to enrol in 300-series HIS courses. JSH300H1 History and Literature were always interconnected in Russia. Writers not only sought to reflect the society around them, but were themselves often social critics and political figures. The course examines key texts in Russian literary tradition both as works of art and as primary sources for the historian. HIS301H1 This course treats the political, social, and religious history of Spain and its empire ca.1450-1714, including the history of colonial Latin America. HIS302H1 An examination of the products of the first and second industrial revolutions in Victorian England. This course focuses on the cultural history of commercialization and consumerism. HIS303H1 The course treats contact and conflict between Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the premodern Mediterranean world. Within the framework of broad political and economic developments, the course explores a range of topics, including holy war, slavery, religious polemics, colonialism, the commerce in goods and ideas, and ethnic relations. HIS304H1 An in-depth examination of Middle East historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See History Website for more details. JHP304Y1 The history of Ukraine from earliest times to the present. Economic, political, and cultural movements; Kievan Rus’, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Cossack state, national revival, twentieth century statehood, and unification. As this course is designed as an introductory course, the professor welcomes first- and second-year students to enroll, as well as upper-level students. (Given by the Departments of History and Political Science) HIS305H1 This course examines the connections between popular culture and politics in the modern Caribbean. Aspects of popular culture such as sport, religion, and social constructions of gender will be discussed. The impact of post-war migration, race and racial nationalism and the upheavals of THE 1960s on popular culture in the Caribbean will also be themes. HIS306H1 Some of the main themes in English political, social, religious and intellectual history in the 17th century: the origins, character, and consequences of the English Civil War, the nature and effects of social change, and the changing role of religious forces in society. HIS308H1 This course continues with the themes treated in HIS303H1, specifically in the context of relations between the Ottoman HIS309H1 What happens when a culture changes its religious organization and beliefs? Social and intellectual upheavals beginning in fifteenth century Europe created the split between catholic and protestant Christians and reshaped the spiritual and political landscape of sixteenth century Europe. Issues covered include religion and politics, toleration, gender, popular piety, class.
This course examines the emergence of a modern ‘consumer society’ in
North America from about 1850 to recent times. The aim is to combine political,
social, economic and cultural history to chart changing relationships between
North Americans, consumer commodities, and identities. HIS311Y1 Canadian international affairs in a broader context. Anglo-American as well as Canadian-American relations; the European background to questions such as the League of Nations, appeasement and rearmament, which directly affected Canada without this country being consulted. HIS312H1 The peopling of Canada by immigrant groups from THE 1660s to THE 1970s. Immigration and multiculturalism policies; migration and settlement; ethnic communities; relations with the host society. HIS313H1 Canadian labour history from political action to collective bargaining in the period from Confederation to the present. HIS314H1 A general survey tracing the political, social, and cultural development of a distinct society in Quebec and the rise of self-conscious French-speaking communities elsewhere in Canada. HIS315H1 This course introduces students to the multiple ways in which the diverse populations inhabiting the geographic space of “Viet Nam” construct their histories. Perspectives from Chinese, Charn, ethnic minority and Vietnamese majority populations will be explored. HIS316H1 The rise of advertising as an economic, moral, and cultural force in the 19th and 20th centuries. Attention to advertising as a form of communication, the role of the mass media, stereotyping and the culture of consumption. Majority of course material deals with the experiences of the United States and Canada, focusing on the period afTER 1945. HIS317H1 A survey of modern German history in the twentieth century. Topics include World War I and the postwar settlement, the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist dictatorship, the Holocaust, the division of Germany, the Cold War, German reunification, Germany and the European Union, nationalism, political culture, war and revolution, religious and ethnic minorities and questions of history and memory. HIS319H1 Considers the expansion of the French state at the close of THE 100 Years War, cultural and social change during the Renaissance, religious change and the Protestant Reformation, the emergence of religious conflict and the Wars of Religion. A range of primary sources and historiographical perspectives will be considered. HIS320H1 Covers major events and themes for the perIOD 300-600, including decline of Greco-Roman paganism, conversion to Christianity, individual barbarian groups (Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, Burgundians, Vandals, Franks, Lombards), their culture and impact on empire, Justinian’s reconquests. HIS321H1 Surveys major events and figures for the period c. 600-1000, including: Pope Gregory the Great, the Morovingian Franks, Lombard Italy, Byzantine civilization, the rise of Islam, Charlemagne, the Carolingian Renaissance, the Vikings, Anglo-Saxon England to King Alfred, the Ottonians. HIS322Y1 Chronological survey of the history of medieval Europe fROM 1100 to approximatELY 1450. The three main topics are: the formation of the modern states, the impact of urban development, and the evolution of spirituality. HIS323H1 Reflecting on the life cycle and rites of passage in the medieval period gives the opportunity to study the daily lives of peasants, nobles, monks, nuns, and burghers, and to observe from an interesting angle the differences between female and male life experiences. HIS325H1 This course focuses on the history of eighteenth century Russia, tracing the development of its political institutions, social and economic structures and cultural values. Examining the reign of Peter I, the age of Empresses, and Catherine the Great, we see not only internal changes within the Russian Empire itself, but also its emergence as a European power. HIS326H1 Selected topics on a specific period in Chinese history. Topics in any given year depend on the instructor. HIS328H1 An examination of political, social and economic developments in modern Chinese history fto the present day. Main topics may include the decline of the Imperial order and the challenge of Western imperialism; the Republican period; the rise of the Communist movement; the People’s Republic of China. HIS329H1 This course will explore ways in which “globalization” is a profoundly significant and deeply rooted historical process. Although emphasis will be placed on the 19th and 20th centuries, some of the economic, political, cultural, and technological forces shaping the past millennium will also be considered. HIS330H1 Topics include German reactions to the French Revolution, Napoleonic occupation, the Wars of Liberation, industrial expansion, the Revolutions of 1848, unification in 1871, Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, everyday life, gender relations, local and regional identities, workers’ culture, avant-garde culture, nationalism, anti-Semitism, colonialism, and the Great War of 1914-18. HIS331H1 The history of the Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fROM 1900 to the present day, with emphasis on the emergence of independent Baltic states, World War II, communist era, the Baltic Revolution, the restoration of independence and European integration. HIS332H1 The changing nature of crime and criminal justice in early-modern England; the emergence of modern forms of policing, trial and punishment. HIS334H1 The diplomatic, economic and military activities of Russia, Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain and the U.S. vis a vis Central Europe. Russian and German expansion, partitions of Poland, disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, the Napoleonic and World Wars, political systems created in Vienna, Versailles and Yalta, the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet outer empire. HIS335H1 This course explores Russian culture - art, architecture, film and literature - fROM 1917 to the post-Soviet present. Readings and screenings trace the relation between culture, history, and revolution from the Russian Avant-Garde and proletarian culture to socialist realism, and from Krushchev’s thaw to examples of Soviet “postmodernism”. HIS336H1 This course emphasizes the interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews, and the cultural and political distinctiveness of Castile and Aragon in the development of state, society, and culture in medieval Spain. HIS337H1 Major themes in late seventeenth and eighteenth century British history with a thematic focus on intellectual, cultural and social developments. Topics include the English “urban renaissance”, the birth of a consumer society, the Scottish Enlightenment and the early stages of the British industrialisation. HIS338H1 German state policy towards the Jews in the context of racist ideology, bureaucratic structures, and varying conditions in German-occupied Europe. Second Term considers responses of Jews, European populations and governments, the Allies, churches, and political movements. HIS339Y1 Major aspects of English history from the end of the 18th century to the death of Queen Victoria: the Industrial Revolution, the rise of parliamentary democracy, the role of social class, the development of modern cities, the emergence of the modern state, Victorian religion, the Victorian family, the role of aristocracy in an industrialized society. HIS340H1 This course introduces students to some of the principal themes in the history of Australia since well before the British occupation in 1788. Topics covered include the dispossession and recent partial re-possession of land by the indigenous population, the consequences of its creation as a convict colony, the creation of the Labour Party and later political and social developments. HIS342H1 This course examines modern Russia’s political predecessors, their contacts with Byzantium, Western Europe, and the Mongol Empire, and resulting cultural, religious, and social changes. HIS343Y1 An introduction to the historical origins and evolution of modern intelligence services. Topics to be studied include: intelligence in wartime; technological change; intelligence failures; covert operations; counter-espionage; the future of spying. The impact of the popular culture, both in fiction and film is also examined. HIS344Y1 An examination of the conduct and consequences 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 the survival of humanity itself. The diplomatic, strategic and economic aspects of international relations will all receive appropriate elucidation. HIS345H1 This course is designed to further students’ knowledge of films’ relationship to the events they depict and their undeniable power as representational systems to render history effectively. This will necessarily entail both close examination of the formal systems film rely upon and an understanding of the distinction between fictional and non-fictional forms in film. HIS347H1 The history of Chinese foreign relations fROM 1842 to the present day, with emphasis on the foreign relations of the People’s Republic siNCE 1949. Topics include: imperialism in China, Sino-Soviet relations; the Deng era rapprochement with the West; contemporary issues such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, regional security. HIS348H1 An in-depth examination of issues in gender history. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See History website for more details. HIS349H1 An introduction to the history of modern England with emphasis on the search for identity with reference to the nation, the crown, class, gender, age, political parties, race and ethnicity. HIS351Y1 A survey of the history of Twentieth-Century Russia. The social, economic, and political development of Twentieth-Century Russia, with an emphasis on the Russian Revolution and Stalinism. Stress is placed on modern historiographical issues. HIS352H1 A survey of the relationship between Jewish identity, politics and culture in the modern age. HIS353Y1 Social and political history of Poland from the 10th to the 20th century. Analysis of the political history in a broader, central European context; consequences of Christianization of medieval Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian union; Sarmatian culture, Antemurale, Polish Messianism and Cordon sanitaire. HIS354H1 An investigation of how ideas of masculinity and gender roles shaped the exercise of private and public power in early modern Europe. HIS355H1 Crime and criminal justice in England in the industrial age; the relationship of crime, society, and economy. HIS356H1 A survey of the history of Jewish nationalism, the Zionist movement, and the state of Israel from THE 1880s to the present, with particular focus on continuity and rupture between Palestine’s pre-1948 Jewish community and the Israeli state. HIS357Y1 A social history of the 15th and 16th centuries set against the cultural and political background. Emphasis on changes in customs and living conditions resulting from economic, legal, intellectual, and religious developments of the period. HIS358H1 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. HIS359H1 The role of nationalism, race and ethnicity, class conflict and ideologies in the recent development of Caribbean societies; Europe’s replacement by the United States as the dominant imperial power in the Caribbean; how this mixture of regional and international pressures has led to widely differing political systems and traditions. HIS360H1 This course traces the earliest known arrival of people of African descent in Canada from the early seventeenth century to the time of their more recent postwar immigration trends. Using socio-historical and multidisciplinary approaches, setttlement, community and institutional building and survival will be examined within the framework of other Canadian historical developments. HIS361H1 Follows on HIS338H1. Themes include: resistance by Jews and non-Jews; local collaboration; the roles of European governments, the Allies, the churches, and other international organizations; the varieties of Jewish responses. We will also focus on postwar repercussions of the Holocaust in areas such as justice, memory and memorialization, popular culture and politics. HIS362H1 The history of the Hanseatic League in medieval Europe from the late 12th to the late 16th century, with emphasis on the organization of the German Hansa, maritime activities, Hanseatic trade, and daily life of the Hanseatic merchants in Western and Eastern Europe HIS363H1 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). HIS365H1 A survey of the Great Lakes Region as a “trans-national space” from fur trade to free trade. Attention is given to the political, social, economic, environmental, and cultural histories that affected the development of the region. HIS366H1 Explores the history of Aboriginal peoples (Indigenous and Métis) living in the Great Lakes Region after the Great Lakes were effectively split between British North America (later Canada) to the north and the united States to the south, when a rapidly increasing newcomer population on both sides of the border marginalized Indigenous peoples and settled on their land. Topics include a comparative examination of Indigenous experiences of colonialism, including treaties and land surrenders as well as the development of government policies aimed at removing and/or assimilating Great Lakes peoples. This course will also study resistance by First National and Tribal Councils to those programs over nearly two centuries and assess local strategies used for economic and cultural survival. HIS368H1 An introduction to the history of early modern England with reference to politics, religion and social structure. HIS369H1 Explores the history of Aboriginal peoples (Indigenous and Métis) living in the Great Lakes Region from the 16th century to the aftermath of the war of 1812. Weaving together interdisciplinary sources, this course examines central events in Great Lakes history including the formation of the Wendat and Haudenosaunee Confederacies and key Anishinaabek alliances, the arrival of European newcomers into an Indigenous landscape, the social-political impact of new diseases, reactions to European missionaries, the fur trade, major conflicts and peace processes including the Great Peace of Montreal, the Treaty of Niagara and the 60 Years War for the Great Lakes; and ending with the period of significant encroachment of new settlers on Indigenous lands. Tutorials, primary source analysis, essay, exam. HIS370H1 A survey of the economic, social, political, and cultural history of black America from Reconstruction until recent times. Among the central issues dealt with are: segregation and disfranchisement; the Great Migration; the rise of the ghetto; the Civil Rights Movement; emergence of an “underclass.” HIS371H1 This course focuses on the political, social, intellectual and cultural history of nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia. Major topics include the rise of a Russian intelligentsia, reform and counter-reform, the nationality question, modernization, the woman question, and revolutionary movements. HIS372H1 This course examines the aspirations, achievements, problems and prospects of the modern Olympic Movement and its implications for physical activity and health with specific reference to the Beijing and Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Toronto’s bid for THE 2015 Pan American Games. HIS373H1 U.S. experiences during the global economic crisis of THE 1930s – set against the broader historical context within which the crisis unfolded. What factors caused the Great Depression? What social, political, and cultural impact did it have on the U.S.? How did the domestic crisis intertwine with the escalating international problems that led to World War II? HIS374H1 This course looks at the early origins of American consumerism. It begins with 17th-century England and the economic imperatives within the Atlantic World, then traces the changing attitudes of 18th-century Americans towards consumer goods, fashion and style that led to the mass consumption of the 19th century. HIS376H1 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. HIS377H1 A survey of the history of American foreign relations fROM 1898 to the present. Themes include imperial expansion and the uses of power; the relationship of business and government in U.S. foreign policy; and the role of culture and ideas in America’s relations with the world. HIS378H1 A survey of one of the most turbulent decades in American history. Examines the political, social, economic and cultural revolutions that transformed the face of America. HIS380H1 The political, social, and economic history of China from the period of political and economic reorganization in the Song dynasty to the final glory of the imperial order down to the end of the 18th century and its decay in the 19th. HIS381H1 Rather than a survey of African History, this course examines popular representations of the past in Africa, looking at the philosophical and methodological challenges that these multiple histories raise for academic historians. It asks students to think critically about the basis of historical knowledge and the ownership of history HIS382H1 Rather than a survey of African history, this courses examines the ways in which concepts of time and space have been used to create a false sense of a separate and distinct historical field. The courses critiques ideas of tradition and modernity and challenges concepts of physical remoteness and historical isolation. HIS383H1 Major themes in the history of African women. Themes include: sources and methodologies of studying African women, cultural construction of gender, changing modes of production, women and state formation, ideology and social control, education, law, race, class and gender, female resistance to colonial rule and African womanisms versus Western feminisms. HIS384H1 Early Canadian history (ca. 1500-1800), emphasizing colonization, Native peoples of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes; establishment of French and British colonies; interaction of natives and European colonizers. HIS385H1/Y1 A study of political, economic, and social change in the British colony of Hong Kong fROM 1842 until the present day. HIS386H1 Social and political history of Muslims of South Asia since A.D. 712. The growth of Muslim community, conversion, social stratification, and social structure; mediaeval Muslim legacy in administration, art, literature, and religion. Muslim identity, nationalism, and “Islamic modernism” as reflected in the writings of intellectuals such as Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Iqbal, Jinnah, Abul-Kalam Azad, Mawdudi, and Parwiz. HIS387H1 This course considers the history of France, from the rise of absolutist monarchy under the seventeenth-century, Bourbon monarchs, through the Enlightenment, the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire, and the Restoration, to the fall of the constitutional monarchy in 1848. HIS388H1 A study of French society, politics and culture from the Paris Commune to THE 1990’s. Special attention is paid to watersheds like the Dreyfus Affair and the Vichy regime, to issues of regionalism/nationalism, cultural pluralism, women’s rights, intellectual and cultural trends, and decolonization. HIS389H1 In-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Undergraduate Handbook or History website for more details. HIS390Y1 This course examines how Latin America and Latin Americans responded to the American, French, Haitian, Latin American, and industrial revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. HIS393H1 An examination of the role of slavery in the development of the American South from the early colonial period through the Civil War. Topics include: the origins of slavery, the emergence of a plantation economy, the rise of a slaveholding elite, the structure of the slave community, and the origins of the war. HIS395H1 Introduces African cultural and political history via a series of important primary texts. These texts provide important insights into the gendered nature of African intellectual movements for liberation as well as wider political and cultural discourses. It examines how these authors addressed concepts such as authenticity, modernity, nation, and self. HIS398H0 HIS399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here. HIS401H1 This course covers international relations from World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Topics include the breakdown of the wartime alliance, Soviet predominance in eastern Europe, the Western response, NATO, atomic weaponry. HIS403Y1 The course focuses on aspects of Jewish-Christian relations ca.300-1600, such as royal and ecclesiastical Jewish policies; religious polemics; intellectual collaboration; social and economic interaction; anti-Judaism and religious violence. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS404H1 This seminar interdisciplinary and studies past environmental change in North America. Topics include: theory and historiography; the pre-European environment; contact; resource development; settlement, industrial urban environments; ideas about nature in religion, literature and North American culture; conservation and the modern environmental movement. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS405Y1 A course on Canadian external relations siNCE 1945. Topics include Canada and the Cold War, the Korean War, the Suez crisis and the war in Vietnam, membership in international organizations, and bilateral relations with other countries. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS406H1 An in-depth examination of issues in gender history. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See History website for more details. HIS407H1 Historiographical controversies and the latest empirical findings concerning social conflict and political mobilization under Bismarck and Wilhelm II. Problems raised by competing schools of interpretation include definitions of the authoritarian state, bourgeois hegemony, localism and regionalism, radical nationalism, workers’ culture, and gender relations. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS408Y1 Relations between blacks and whites in the United States from the colonial period to recent times with emphasis on slavery. HIS409H1 This course examines the religious traditions of Viet Nam through a meeting between the ruling Trinh Lord in Northern Viet Nam and a Buddhist monk, a Taoist Priest, a Confucian scholar, and a Catholic Missionary. Students will read the English translation of the meeting along with scholarly readings and primary documents. HIS410H1 Social and cultural approaches to understanding spectacles, crowd behaviour, and parades in the Canadian past, 1660s - 1980s. HIS411H1 This seminar course will study a handful of great trials – still to be selected – in close detail. Using materials from the modern period in Europe and North America, we will look at the clash of ideas represented in these high-profile cases, the historical setting in which they were embedded, the human drama, legal and sometimes constitutional issues, and their impact both on their societies and our own. HIS412Y1 Explores the impact of crusades, religious conversion and colonialization on medieval Baltic history through analysis of two medieval chronicles in English translation. Topics include ‘culture clash’, medieval colonialism, Europeanization as well as German expansion eastwards, the role of the Teutonic Knights and the strategies of survival of the native Baltic people after conquest and Christianization. HIS413H1 Examines the process and consequences of slave emancipation in the Atlantic World, beginning with the French and Haitian Revolutions and concluding with slavery and abolition in West Africa in the early 20th century.Students are introduced to the major literature and historiographical debates surrounding emancipation. HIS415H1 Investigates the modern concept of the nation and its connections to the idea of collective memory in twentieth-century Europe. Through reading and discussing seminal works on nationalism and national memory, we will discuss the connections between modern notions of nation and practices of remembering. HIS416H1 In 1771, with the translation of the Zend-Avesta by the French Scholar Anquetil-Duperron, a new era opened in German national culture. From the philosophy of Johann Gottfried von Herder to the novels of Thomas Mann, this course analyzes the ways in which German writers defined the substance and place of national culture in their writings about India, Central Asia and the “East.” HIS418H1 Focus is on the history of women and systems of gender in Russia and the Soviet Union. Themes include gender and authority during the age of empresses; pre-revolutionary radical movements; the impACT 1917 Revolution and its impact on women’s lives; the resurrection of conservative gender conventions during Stalin’s regime; the experience of women during perestroika. HIS421Y1 A seminar on the history of Soviet Russia in its formative years, 1917 to 1939. The revolutions of 1917, the civil war and war communism, NEP Russia, the Stalin revolution, the purges, and the “great retreat” are explored. Emphasis is on issues, interpretations and historiography, problems of study, and periodization. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS422H1 This course examines the rise, fall, workings and legacies of a xenophobic, collaborationist regime that came to power in France in 1940. It pays special attention to everyday practices under Vichy, to individual choices, to ideological battles, and to trauma. Other major themes include anti-Semitism, issues of memory and amnesia, and socio-cultural shifts. HIS423H1 Introduces students to some of the main issues in the new field of the social history of medicine. Readings from the secondary historical literature are distributed and discussed in class, covering such topics as the history of the doctor-patient relationship, changes in physicians’ social status, changing attitudes towards the body, and the history of obstetrics and gynaecology. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS424H1 This seminar explores the social function and meaning of violence in medieval society, and the development of rituals and institutions to control violence. Among the topics treated: Germanic blood feud, aristocratic violence and chivalry, criminal justice systems, violence against minorities, and violence and gender. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS425H1 A look at some basic problems of historical study, approached by means of an analysis of the work of a number of historians and philosophers of history, representing different schools of thought and time periods from ancient times to the present. HIS426H1 This course surveys the major developments and figures of Italian history by focusing on key primary texts (in translation) with a particular view to urban and legal history which will form the backdrop to understanding artistic and literary achievements in context. HIS427H1 The “Golden Legend” or Readings on the Saints, compiled by Jacobus de Voragine C. 1260, serves as the basis for a seminar on the relation of history and legend as understood in the High Middle Ages. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS428H1 The first goal of this seminar is to help students read the sources with a more critical eye, especially narrative sources (Lives of Saints) and normative sources (rules and customaries). The second goal is to study the evolution of the monastic ideal from its origin to the 12th century. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)
This course explores the ways in which twentieth century Canada was shaped
by its complex relationship to empire. Course readings place Canadian historiography
into dialogue with new theoretical and methodological approaches drawn
from postcolonial studies, new imperial history, feminist and critical race
theory.
Topics include the meaning of empire in everyday life, migration, the impact
of global decolonization, and Aboriginal politics. HIS430H1 Topics in the political, social, cultural, and military history of Canadians during the First and Second World Wars. Emphasis on the home front. HIS431H1 An examination of the Holocaust and the ways it has been studied and represented through the lens of gender. In what ways did being male or female make a difference for the people who were part of the Holocaust; what did Nazi ideology preach about ideas of masculinity and femininity and how did German authorities implement those notions; what roles did sex, sexuality, and sexual violence play in the Nazi assault on Jews and other groups; how have assumptions about gender shaped memories and representations of the Holocaust? HIS432H1 The students define together with the professor eight different topics (e.g. relics, masculinity, leprosy, clothes, recluses, peasants’ houses, gynecology and the peace of God). Each topic is approached through a class discussion, on the basis of a common corpus of secondary sources, plus presentations by the students. HIS433H1 To explore the history of Polish Jews from the Partitions of Poland to the present time, concentrating on the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries: situation of Polish Jews in Galicia; Congress Kingdom of Poland; Prussian-occupied Poland befORE 1914; during World War II; and post-war Poland. Focus on an analysis of primary sources. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS434Y1 The origin of Rus’, international trade, the impact of nomadic peoples, the introduction of Christianity, the economic system an the problem of feudalism, the political structure and the dilemma of princely succession; literature and architecture; the displacement of political power centres and depopulation, the preservation of the Kievan heritage. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) JHP435Y1 Examines status of minority peoples in Europe, using specific case studies to compare similarities and differences in how these minorities function in states with differing political systems and ideologies. The evolution of specific minorities focuses on questions of language, religion, historical ideology, legal status, assimilation, and political goals. (Given by the Departments of Political Science and History) HIS436H1 The impact of the Cold War on life in the West through a study of selected popular culture themes and modes of production that helped shape the era. Four themes include “Living with the Bomb,” “Living with the National Security State,” “Living with Spies,” and “Women Living with the Cold War.” HIS437H1 Examines historiographical controversies and their public reception. Topics include the forged Hitler diaries, the David Irving trial, monarchical scandals befORE 1914, German responsibility FOR 1914, Daniel Goldhagen’s “eliminationist” thesis, Auschwitz as an “Asiatic deed,” Wehrmacht complicity in the Holocaust, retrospective films about East Germany, and Germany’s “special path to modernity.” HIS438H1 Focusing on the institution of the inquisition, this seminar explores the response of ecclesiastical and secular authorities to religious heterodoxy. Among the groups prosecuted by the inquisition discussed: Cathar heretics in France, crypto-Jews, and crypto-Muslims in Spain, and witches in Italy. HIS439H1 This course examines ways in which the Russian Empire and Soviet Union expanded their territories, the ways they controlled those colonies, and the ways in which they dealt with rising nationalism both at home and abroad. JHP440Y1 The seminar explores the use of gender as a category of analysis in the study of international relations. Topics include gendered imagery and language in foreign policymaking; beliefs about women’s relationship to war and peace; issues of gender, sexuality, and the military; and contributions of feminist theory to international relations theory. HIS440H1 Examines the use of maps through the ages to depict spatial relationships and political, social, or cultural authority. Explores the visual display of quantitative information, the evolution of historical atlases, and cartographic crime. Such topics as Lebensraum and gerrymandering illustrate how maps can distort historical processes and communal relationships. HIS441H1 Investigates religious conversion and cultural change in the Spanish world ca. 1450-1750. Principal settings include the late medieval Spanish kingdoms, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, and the Philippines archipelago. FALL 2007 is special: our seminar readings and assignments will take best advantage of “The Virgin, Saints and Angels”, an exhibition of baroque paintings from Spanish South America in the UofT Art Centre. HIS442H1 Examines major events of European history inthe 20th century as experienced, shaped, and sometimes resistedby women. Topics discussed will be the World Wars, the Holocaust, Communism, civilwars, decolonization, the Cold War, the EuropeanUnion, and demographic, social and cultural transformations in Europe over the past hundredyears. HIS443H1 Developments in popular/lay/local religion as expressed in a variety of cultural, political, and social forms fROM 1400-1600; the relation of these forms to both Catholic and Protestant institutional churches. Impact of Renaissance humanism on notions of kinship, order, community, perfection. HIS444H1 Explores the construction of Jewish identity in Europe from the late 18th through mid 20th centuries. Political emancipation and unprecedented economic opportunity stimulated many Jews to adopt the cultures of their host societies while refashioning Jewishness as a form of religious or ethnic community. Others constructed identities based on a defensive Orthodoxy or revolutionary ethos. Zionism grew out of and responded to all of these options and will receive particular focus in this course. HIS445H1 What is a nation? Are nations ancient or modern, unchanging or malleable? Do nations create states, or does the state create the nation? This course seeks to answer these questions through an examination of nationalism, primarily in Europe, from THE 1700’s through the present. HIS446H1 The course examines the relationship between gender and the experience of slavery and emancipating several Atlantic world societies from the 17th-19th centuries. Areas to be covered are the Caribbean, Brazil, the U.S. South, West and South Africa and Western Europe. HIS447H1 This seminar considers two bodies of scholarship: American empire and its relationship to global capital, militarism, and technoscience; and empire, sex, race, and intimacy.In doing so, the seminar questions how imperial formations shaped life within the United States, as much as it altered distant and not so distant territories, peoples, and diasporas. HIS448H1 This course explores the history of gender in East and Southeast Asia from a comparative perspective. It will examine how models of Southeast Asian women have been constructed against their East Asian counterparts. HIS449Y1 The role of the intelligentsia in East European national revivals; the ethnographic and literary revival; the language question; the press and cultural organizations; education; religion; and political movements. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS450H1 The development of Jewish historical inquiry over the past two centuries is examined against the background of the general phenomenon of modern historicism and the particular religious, cultural and political interests of Jewish communities and institutions in Europe, North America and Israel. HIS451H1 The fall of the Versailles system, German and Soviet diplomatic and military activities and their occupational policies in East Central Europe during World War II, economic exploitation, collaboration, resistance, and genocide in the discussed region, its “liberation” and sovietization in 1944-1945. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS452H1 Comparative analysis of British and French scientific culture during the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Addresses science as a culturally constructed system of knowledge rather than a body of absolute truth. Particular attention is therefore paid to similarities and differences between “elite” and “popular” science, as manifested in the periodical press, literary texts and consumer culture. Major course themes include gender, race, imperialism and governance. HIS453H1 How the peoples of Eastern Europe tried to organize their domestic affairs, and in what international context they sought to operate, in order to survive as national entities and later to preserve their newly-won independence and territorial integrity. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) JHP454Y1 World War I and the Russian Revolution: the Ukrainian independence movement; the Soviet Ukraine and west Ukrainian lands during the interwar period; World War II and the German occupation; the Soviet Ukraine before and after the death of Stalin. Socio-economic, cultural, and political developments. (Given by the Departments of History and Political Science) (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS455H1 A tour of Soviet history through recently declassified archival documents (in English translation), first-hand accounts, memoirs, and literature. The primary chronological emphasis of the course will be on the years of Stalin. The focus of the course will be on close textual analysis and a critical reading of the sources. (Joint undergraduate-graduate.) HIS456Y1 An examination of black slavery in Latin America, with emphasis on the lives of the slaves, from the conquest of America to abolition in the 19th century. HIS457H1 Explores the central themes in the history of France during the Revolution and the First Empire. We will consider the period’s principal political, social and cultural aspects: the causes of the French Revolution; the shift from constitutional monarchy to Republic; the relationship between politics and religion; the invention of a new republican political culture; counterrevolution and Terror; the Directory; Bonaparte’s rise to power; the Napoleonic Empire; the nature of war during the Empire; the Restoration; and the Revolution’s legacy in France and beyond today. HIS458Y1 Tsarist and Soviet foreign relations from the Crimean War to the present with emphasis on continuity and change. The seminar examines major themes in Russian and Soviet foreign policy behaviour on the basis of assigned readings. HIS459H1 The history of Soviet cinema and the importance of film as a historical source. Documentary and fiction film; editing, narration, and sound; film distribution and exhibition; the Soviet school of montage and socialist realism; nationality and gender; the Soviet musical comedy of the Stalin era; resistance and dissidence. HIS460H1 Soviet film as a historical source and the institutional and ideological history of Soviet film production, distribution, and exhibition. Fiction and documentary film during World War II; the cinema of the Cold War and the “Thaw”; Soviet “new realism” and the return of the village; avant-garde cinema of THE 1960s-80s; memory and historical revision in late Soviet film. Screenings include never-before-seen archival footage, as well as films and film clips subtitled by the instructor. HIS461H1 The 20th century has been an age of experiments for Poland. Universal, general problems of democracy, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, communism, socialism, free market and centrally planned economies, are examined, as are the ongoing adjustments made by the Polish people. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS462H1 An exploration of Canadian intelligence from the end of World War Two to the present, with an emphasis on understanding policies, institutions and practices in the context of changing perceptions of threats to national security. The Cold War era will provide essential context for understanding the new security environment created in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. HIS464H1 Examines varying roles of religion in cases of genocide and extreme violence. Seminar proceeds from recent cases (Darfur, Rwanda, wars associated with break-up of Yugoslavia) backward through the 20th century (Cambodia, Indonesia, the Holocaust, Armenians, Herero) and the 19th century (Belgian Congo, Caucasus, native peoples in the Americas). HIS466H1 Selected topics in a specific period of Canadian history. Content in any given year depends on instructor. Please see the History Department website for complete description. HIS467H1 Examines French colonial Indochina through several different lenses. Themes include the cross-cultural “contact zones” between colonial and colonized societies, gender perceptions, imperial culture, expressions of colonial power, and forms of opposition. Colonial novels, translated resistance literature, documentaries, and films are utilized as primary sources to be examined critically. HIS468H1 This course explores a series of themes relating to Madagascar and the Mascareigne Islands between the eighteenth and the twentieth century. Topics include slavery and its memories, miscegenation, trade, the environment, space and mapping, cultural contact, colonialism, and imperial networks. HIS469H1 This course examines the interaction between religion and culture in Canada from colonial times to the present with emphasis on primary documents. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS470H1 Addressing South Asian history afTER 1750, this course examines ideas of rights, contract, and the rule of law in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Attention is paid to the intellectual history of rights and the central place of colonial and postcolonial questions within that history. Topics include rights and questions concerning indigenous culture, caste and customary practice, gender and capitalist development. HIS471H1 This course considers the origins and evolution of U.S. experiences with globalization: attention is paid to economic, technological, cultural, and institutional developments during the past century. HIS472H1 The trajectory of Canadian history has been (and continues to be) shaped ssignificantly by the changing relationships between indigenous peoples and newcomers to what is now Canada. Through discussion of readings on various seminar topics, we will explore the multi-faceted contours of these relationships, from cultural encounters, treaties & alliances, and missionization to colonization , assimilation, residential schools and contemporary issues HIS473Y1 This seminar examines strategic, economic, ideological, and cultural factors in U.S. relations with East and Southeast Asia. Major themes include the role of cultural and informal diplomacy and the effect of perceptions and misperceptions on both sides of U.S.-Asian interactions. HIS474H1 This course is a critical intellectual history of Caribbean decolonisation. It begins with the Haitian Revolution, exploring and comparing how history was mobilized to structure anti-colonial theories about the making of ‘postcolonial’ Caribbean societies. Key conceptual frameworks to be examined include indegenism, noirism, creolization, metissage; Caribbean interpretations of Marxism, Negritude and Pan-Aricanism. HIS475H1 This course explores the origins, consolidation, and unmaking of segregationist social orders in South Africa and the American South. It examines the origins of racial inequality, the structural and socio-political roots of segregation, and the twin strategies of accommodation and resistance employed by black South Africans and African Americans. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS476H1 The history of Black Americas seen through the eyes of some of the men and women who experienced it. Attention is given to slavery but emphasis is on the twentieth century. Students examine autobiographical works, novels, and film. HIS477H1 Examination of the impact of industrialism on Victorian society and values. Concentration on Victorian social critics including Engels, Owen, Maynew, Dickens and Morris. HIS478H1 This course examines black life and culture in the cotton South through the medium of recorded blues music. It seeks to restore a voice and a sense of agency to black southerners in the age of Jim Crow. Topics include the plantation economy, agricultural life, mobility, migration, and urban subcultures. HIS479H1 An in-depth study of U.S. behaviour in the global arena since World War II. Particular attention will be paid to the origins and evolution of the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the initiatives of the Nixon-Kissinger years, the end of the Cold War, and the relevance of “globalization.” HIS480H1 Engaging with influential perspectives in postcolonial historiography, this seminar tracks three major themes in the history of the idea of modernity from the late 18th through the 20th centuries: political freedom, citizenship and the nation-state; capitalism and its critique; and the relationship of history, memory, and identity. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS481H1 The role of elite women in twentieth-century Africa has been overshadowed by studies of non-elite women so much so as to suggest that all women lacked power. This course aims to show how a very limited but important group of women negotiated power in a century of increasing patriarchy. It combines gender with class analysis. HIS482H1 This course will explore the cultural history of the body from ancient Greece to Renaissance Italy. From an examination of both bodily practices and discourses about the body we will attempt to gain an understanding of premodern experiences of and attitudes towards the human body. HIS483H1 This research seminar builds on work done in lower-level gender history courses. It focuses on intensive study of sources and methodologies for the history of masculinities and women in early modern Europe. The main assignment is an independently-designed major research project. HIS484H1 This seminar examines the history of the car in North America from the perspective of technology, business, landscape and popular culture. Particular attention is paid to issues of production, consumption, geography, and daily life, and to the importance of class race, gender, region, HIS485H1 A seminar on aspects of Chinese history fROM 1368 to the present, with emphasis on social history. Topics vary and include: social structure in Ming-Qing China; religion and ritual in Chinese society; Chinese popular culture. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS487H1 Examines the parallel discourses of animal and human rights in Anglo-American culture from the eighteenth century to the present. The courses explores issues of subjectivity and consciousness as well as cruelty and pain. Topics include slavery and abolition, animal welfare and antivivisection, anti-colonial liberation movements, and animal rights campaigns. HIS488H1 The development of intelligence techniques and operations in wartime conditions; the role of espionage, cryptanalysis and deception in deciding the battles and campaigns of the Second World War. HIS489H1 Introduces students to some of the main issues in the history of psychiatry. Readings from the secondary historical literature are distributed and discussed in class, covering such topics as changes in the nature of psychotic illness, the psychoneuroses, disorders of the mind/body relationship, and the psychiatric diagnosis and the “presentation” of illness. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) HIS490H1 This seminar explores issues of everyday life in Soviet Russia during the Stalin era. What was the “Soviet normal”? Topics will include belief systems, dreams and myths, terror, fear, repression, and resistance. Texts include a range of different sources, memoirs, diaries, official state documents, and secondary sources.
An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Undergraduate Handbook or History website for more details. HIS496H1 An in-depth examination of historical issues. Content in any given year depends on instructor. See Undergraduate Handbook or History website for more details. HIS498H1 HIS499Y1 These courses assume the form of an undergraduate thesis. Students must find an appropriate supervisor from the Department, receive approval for the project, and submit an Independent Studies ballot. Students must be enroled in either a History Specialist or Major program, with a B+ average in no less than 4 HIS courses, or with special permission of the instructor. Applications must be received in September for first session courses; in December for second session courses. |
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