NS111 Lecture 6: Lecture Six - Knowing Your History
8 Mar 2017
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Module two: government policy, women"s issues, racial identity. Example: gfg stanley clearly established that primitive people had little to offer and only the civilized people contributed to the development of canada. Stanley focuses on hierarchy in history between the civilized and the uncivilized, however aside from the racist jargon what he is attempting to explain is the clash of cultures. History: history is for the present. (why it is done) What your current interests might be: distortions are presented at the point of creation. Common caution about reading historical sources and obtaining knowledge on the authors. Emphasis on individuals and their acts, primarily brought up as a poli-sci motivation. At its extreme, mi would deny things as society, social forces, presence of groups, etc. Within its viewpoint there is no social, or group. On the whole, scholars have treated policy intent and effect as similar, if not identical, largely because they concentrated on government fiat and documents.
