| This seminar will examine the principal problems which have concerned Canadian and American social historians over the past generation and the approaches and interpretive frameworks which they have brought to the study of these problems. The approach will be historiographical: it is concerned with historians, the uses of history, and the kinds of explanations that have been offered of the past. The few seminars will provide an historical review of the major approaches to the study of North American societies. The remainder of the course will be offered in the form of proseminars examining the historiography of specific problems. |
