HIST 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Donald Creighton, Synecdoche, Signify
24 Aug 2016
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-What is the specific topic of the book or article? What overall purpose does it seem to have?
-For what readership is it written? (The preface, acknowledgements, bibliography and index
can be helpful in answering these questions. Don't overlook facts about the author's
background and the circumstances of the book's creation and publication.)
-Does the author state an explicit thesis? Does he or she noticeably have an axe to grind?
What are the theoretical assumptions? Are they discussed explicitly? (Again, look for
statements in the preface, etc. and follow them up in the rest of the work.)
-What exactly does the work contribute to the overall topic of your course? What general
problems and concepts in your discipline and course does it engage with?
-What kinds of material does the work present (e.g. primary documents or secondary material,
literary analysis, personal observation, quantitative data, biographical or historical accounts)?
-How is this material used to demonstrate and argue the thesis? (As well as indicating the
overall structure of the work, your review could quote or summarize specific passages to
show the characteristics of the author's presentation, including writing style and tone.)
-Are there alternative ways of arguing from the same material? Does the author show
awareness of them? In what respects does the author agree or disagree?
-What theoretical issues and topics for further discussion does the work raise?
-What are your own reactions and considered opinions regarding the work?
**double check page numbers with an online copy**
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-aims to introduce visitors and Canadians to the main themes of the country’s history
-Entertaining, opinionated, accessible, learned, and concise
-succeeds partially in describing Canada as a dance of transformations. Despite the author's
firm intention not to rewrite Donald Creighton or Arthur Lower, his colonies do become
something like a nation, possessing 'the attributes of nationhood' (113). Canadians do
become 'a people' (158). Only a few of these people – the genteel Laurier, the tragicomic
King, and the philosophical Trudeau – are highlighted. Remarkably, for a book published in
2004, only two Canadian women, apart from the fictional Evangeline, make the cut.
-Some regions barely signify
-Upset at the very few words given the Hudson's Bay Company, critical Northern historians
will not be mollified by two references to a body of water called 'Hudson's Bay' (36, 53).
-The Northwest Passage and Nunavut go unnoticed
-At other times, one particular region – the lower Empire of the St Lawrence – fills in,
confusingly, for the whole
-Canada was only 'thoroughly French' (55) in 1740 if we accept this trope of synecdoche
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Document Summary
For what readership is it written? (the preface, acknowledgements, bibliography and index can be helpful in answering these questions. Don"t overlook facts about the author"s background and the circumstances of the book"s creation and publication. ) Are they discussed explicitly? (again, look for statements in the preface, etc. and follow them up in the rest of the work. ) **double check page numbers with an online copy** Aims to introduce visitors and canadians to the main themes of the country"s history. Succeeds partially in describing canada as a dance of transformations. Rm intention not to rewrite donald creighton or arthur lower, his colonies do become something like a nation, possessing "the attributes of nationhood" (113). Only a few of these people the genteel laurier, the tragicomic. King, and the philosophical trudeau are highlighted. 2004, only two canadian women, apart from the ctional evangeline, make the cut.
