HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Expulsion Of The Acadians, Derangement, Le Canadien
17 Apr 2013
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Coins + canadian history = canada as a capitalist country. Liberalism/capitalism fairly new concept (les than 200 years old) Special loonies and toonies ( million spent by government) They celebrate the 200 year anniversary of the war of 1812. The messages depicted by the government in these cases are not all accurate. The first nations people did not fight along-side the british, but rather to defend their own land. (tecumseh: first nations leader in war of 1812) Genealogy: looking for traces of the present in the past. Ex: foucalt questioned when we became a society of surveillance ( discipline & We will trace the genealogy of the liberalist-capitalist canada that we know today. **history of the present is different from presentism. Presentism: judging the past by our terms in the present. ( uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, esp. the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts. ) Gain a new perspective on every day things.
