HIST 124 Lecture : Week 1.docx
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First nations fought for themselves against the usa (tecumseh) British wanted to reward him, he turned it down. Didn"t technically fight side by side with first nations. The canadian government is currently misrepresenting the war. Coins + canadian history = canada as a capitalist country. Gov"t repetitive use our -> excludes first nations. Liberalism and capitalism are relatively recent: not even 200 years old. Many countries establish social and economic very differently from canada and liberalism. Presentism: judging history in terms of the present. The project of making canada a liberal capitalist country was about politics and economies. Liberal capitalist people were needed to promote the ideologies. The process of turning canadians into liberal capitalists was not smooth, many still reject it. Where there is power, you will also find resistance foucault.