Fall 2017 - HIST 373 D100
Conquest in North America, 1500-1900 (4)
Class Number: 2986
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Thu, 1:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby -
Exam Times + Location:
Dec 9, 2017
Sat, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Joseph Taylor
taylorj@sfu.ca
1 778 782-4400
Office: AQ 6012
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Prerequisites:
45 units including six units of lower division History and one of HIST 101 or 212, or permission of the department.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
A broad examination of attempts by aboriginal, imperial, and mercantile forces to claim and control the North American continent from the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early 1500s to the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. Explores the processes of colonization from many perspectives, including Aboriginal, American, English, French, Russian, and Spanish ambitions and activities. Breadth-Humanities.
COURSE DETAILS:
Examines attempts by aboriginal, imperial, and mercantile forces to claim and control the North American continent from the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the early 1500s to the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. Lectures and readings will explore the processes of colonization from many perspectives, paying equal attention to Aboriginal, American, English, French, Russian, and Spanish ambitions and activities:
· Processes of dispossession and incorporation
· Reciprocal relationships between nature and imperialism
· Global linkages in imperial contests
· Aboriginal agendas and responses to expansionism
· Political and economic development
· Spatial and historical implications of settlement
Grading
- Midterm exam 30%
- Research paper 30%
- Final Exam 30%
- Tutorial 10%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (Vintage, 1994)
Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (Pennsylvania, 2011)
Ilya Vinkovetsky, Russian America: An Overseas Colony of a Continental Empire, 1804-1867 (Oxford, 2011)
Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History (Penguin, 2009)
Primary documents available on the Canvas website
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