HIS102Y1 Lecture : HIS311 Lecture 1 - Bothwell
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Ta"s john dirks (head ta), robin grifford, brendan kelly. *different kinds of historians supply the hard data. *how canada got to where it is today (the factors) Social historians discuss the working out of social situations. Foreign relations historians discuss all of these (gender, political, racial) *generally, political scientists need historians for a factual background. Historians have different questions and see events in different ways than political scientists. History teaches a respect for the past and the people of the past history is cyclical and hindsight can provide valuable foresight. *the factors include: explorers, sovereignty, disease, themes of immigration, the history of organization, etc. *examples of this: european explorers were able to seize the continent from its original inhabitants disease played a huge part in this (in the 16th and. 17th centuries, disease killed off 75% of the natives a huge impact on what. Themes o1f immigration: we are all immigrants (huge impact on the development of canada).
