HIS 3375 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - The Stuff, Canada, French Language
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
HIS3375 Selected Topics in Canadian History – The Stuff that Made Canada
University of Ottawa
Lecture I: Introduction
14 September 2016
Commodities have created links between typically separate locales.
Key Terms
Things/Objects: Have a physical/material aspect.
Commodities: Product that is distinguished from a service and is something that tends to be
undifferentiated and fungible.
• Things that are bought and sold.
Goods
Resources
Products
Artefacts
Material
Commodity Fetishism: The perception of the social relationships involved in production as economic
relationships among the money and commodities exchanged in market trade, rather than as
relationships among people.
• Karl Marx, Capital (1867)
Staples and the Staple Thesis
Staple: A commodity which dominates an economy's exports.
W.A. Mackintosh and Harold Innis
Staple Thesis: The pattern of settlement and economic development in Canada has been shaped by
production of a few products for export.
World History
The disciplinary origins of world history:
• "People w/o history" (Eric Wolf, 1982)
• Comparative cultures and area studies perspectives.
The "New" World History:
• Transnational and trans regional approaches
• Examining history on larger (global) spatial scales
• Focus upon cross-cultural exchanges and interactions
• Comparative
• Environmental
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HIS3375 Selected Topics in Canadian History – The Stuff that Made Canada
University of Ottawa
Commodity Chains
Production --> Transformation --> Circulation --> Consumption
Things in motion: through space, time, and culture
Linkages, relationships, networks.
Diversions
• Diverge from their original meaning.
• Meanings change w/ time.
The Line b/w Persons and Things
Objects, subjects, and agency.
Blurred line, depending on cultural contexts and time.
• i.e. Tobacco
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Document Summary
Commodities have created links between typically separate locales. Commodities: product that is distinguished from a service and is something that tends to be undifferentiated and fungible: things that are bought and sold. Commodity fetishism: the perception of the social relationships involved in production as economic relationships among the money and commodities exchanged in market trade, rather than as relationships among people: karl marx, capital (1867) Staple: a commodity which dominates an economy"s exports. Staple thesis: the pattern of settlement and economic development in canada has been shaped by production of a few products for export. "people w/o history" (eric wolf, 1982: comparative cultures and area studies perspectives. The "new" world history: transnational and trans regional approaches, examining history on larger (global) spatial scales, comparative, environmental. Things in motion: through space, time, and culture. Diversions: diverge from their original meaning, meanings change w/ time. Blurred line, depending on cultural contexts and time. i. e. tobacco.
