LEC 1 | MWF 13:00 - 13:50 | George Colpitts | ||||
Notes: Few would have guessed that the Canada created in 1867 and soon constituting one of the largest and least populated nations on earth would become anything of a success story. However, +Canada,+ as The Economist said in 2003, +is now rather cool.+ This experiment in nation-building has taken unexpected turns despite the pull of regionalism, endless debates about federalism, French/ English tensions and on-going economic reliance on traditional export staples. Canadian history has seen remarkable economic expansion and adjustment into industrialized and urban realities. Canadian internationalism has emerged with the nation+s participation in wars and world trade economies and markets. This course evaluates just what was created in 1867 and how +being Canadian+ has been understood, negotiated and re-imagined ever since. |