Examines the major political, social, cultural and economic developments in Ireland since the seventeenth century. Topics include the Ulster plantation, the Act of Union, Catholic Emancipation, the Great Famine, Irish nationalism, the Irish landscape, emigration and the Irish diaspora, the 1916 rebellion, the Anglo-Irish War and the histories of southern and northern Ireland since partition.Course […]
Topics considered include the nature of Roman imperialism, the mechanism of Roman conquest, the emergence of a system of provincial administration and the social, economic and cultural impact of conquest on Roman and provincial societies.
Investigations include methodological limitations; Old Testament, archaeology and ideology; Israel's origins; the settlement in Canaan; Philistia and the Israelite state; the Davidic Revolutions; the twin kingdoms; Assyria, Babylonia and the end of the Israelite people.
TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE (PDF) This course compares the histories of Indigenous peoples around the world. It explores Indigenous rights, lands and resource conflicts, Indigenous-state relations, language and cultural revitalization, and political activism. Case studies may include Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Africa, the South Pacific, Japan, the Americas, and the Circumpolar North. It also focuses on […]
Through a series of case studies concerning the social history of ancient Rome, this course introduces students to the written texts and other media that are used to understand human societies of all periods. Special emphasis will be given to the diverse interpretative approaches that one can bring to such texts and artefacts. Note: This […]
The First World War is a pivotal moment in modern global history. It affected virtually every country in the world, set the stage for the Russian Revolution, the Great Influenza, the collapse of the Ottoman, German, and Austria-Hungarian empires, the turbulent 1920s, the rise of fascism, colonial liberation movements across the global south, and World […]
This course explores the history of Greece from its struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire (achieved in 1821) to the present with a focus on social, cultural and political developments. Expanded Course Description: This course explores the history of Greece since the eighteenth century, the period of Ottoman and Venetian rule; from the 1821 […]
Course Director: Natasha Henry-Dixon - henryn@yorku.ca Explores the many ways people of African descent contributed to building the Province of Ontario. By piecing together clues from such sources as archival documents, archaeological site reports and material culture, coupled with critical analysis of secondary sources, students learn to identify, analyze, interpret and share through on-line publication […]
Cross-listed with: AP/EN 4480 6.0 Course Director: Prof. M. Schotte - mschotte@yorku.ca This research seminar explores the history of books and their readers from antiquity to the present. Class is held in York's Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections, and includes trips to other area libraries. By studying books as material objects and communication technologies, […]
Course Director: Prof. W. Wicken - wwicken@yorku.ca This is a research course, which examines the social history of homicide in Ontario from 1815 to 1982. Each student is required to write a major research paper on a homicide occurring within the Province of Ontario. This paper is based principally on printed and archival sources. In […]