Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2023 - HIST 373 D100

Conquest in North America, 1500-1900 (4)

Class Number: 3577

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 6 – Dec 5, 2023: Wed, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Dec 9, 2023
    Sat, 5:00–5:00 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    45 units including six units of lower division History and one of HIST 101, 104, 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:

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Overview: Examines attempts to claim and control the North American continent by aboriginal, mercantile, and imperial forces from the early 1500s to Geronimo’s surrender in 1886. Lectures and readings explore the processes of colonization from many perspectives, paying equal attention to the aims and responses of American, English, French, Indigenous, Russian, and Spanish agents:

  • Global networks of imperial contestation
  • Indigenous expansionism and responses to European expansion
  • Mutual constitution of nature and empire
  • Spatial and historical implications of settlement
  • Processes of dispossession and incorporation

Mode: Lectures will be prerecorded, and weekly quizzes and discussion of lectures and readings will occur during the normal meeting time each week. Exams and paper submissions will be administered via Canvas.

Grading

  • Weekly Quizzes 10%
  • Midterm 30%
  • Research paper 30%
  • Final exam 30%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive (Knopf, 1994)

David Edmunds & Joseph Peyer, The Fox Wars (University of Oklahoma, 1993)

Theodore Binnema, Common & Contested Ground (University of Toronto Press, 2001)

Gray Whaley, Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee (University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

Primary documents available on the Canvas website


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

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Registrar Notes:

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RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION

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