Survey History of Canada: the National Era, 1867-1939

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course surveys the economic,social, and political history of Canada from the formation of the Canadian state in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II. Themes may include the constitutional achievement of the nation state, westward expansion and relations with Indigenous peoples, the creation of a national political economy and the social relations which developed within it, immigration and ethnic relations, the rise of political dissent and socialism, questions of political rights and citizenship, French-Canadian nationalism and regionalism. Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and HIST-2500.