HISTORY 771 / State and Civil Society in Canada 1848-1948

3 unit(s)

This course provides an in-depth survey of Canadian history from 1848 to 1948, using as its focus the rise, consolidation and reformulation of a liberal order in northern North America. It explores the continuities and discontinuities in the “project of Canada,” which can be defined as the attempt, initiated in the mid-nineteenth century, to implant a British liberal order in northern North America.