HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Statism, Synecdoche, Indentured Servant
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Write a political history of violence in canada before confederation (understanding canada to mean the regions now constituting canada). Compare two dates, one before and one after 1760, to illustrate the change. Confederation: bonds of alliance and also the other text also. Have to piece an argument together from differing pieces of information from all the course. E. g. p. 128 of rushforth could not legislate slave submission, planters relied on violence to coerce them. = physical, psychological, torture quite prevalent judicial torture is abolished in the course of the period. Harold innis, the fur trade in canada, - fur trade as synecdoche of canadian nation and history. Fish on the coast, fur brings europeans inland and westward, timber trade continues to attract people and then agriculture which spread people across the plains. Different staples explains canada"s economic and political history fur trade was a natural entity that ensures that.