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Selected Studies in Canadian Political Theory and Political Culture: Identity and Nationalism

Spring Semester 2004, Tuesdays.

Students would be well advised to have taken or to take the Department's survey course on Canada. Readings are on reserve in the University Library. Evaluation will be based on class participation, three term exams, and a final exam and a final paper, which must be placed on the student's website. The final exam is on all readings.

Books: ¹⁾

John Ralston Saul, Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century, Penguin, Toronto, 1998. Listed as S.

Eli Mandel and David Taras, A Passion for Identity, Methuen, Toronto, 1987. Read by first term Exam.

Knowlton Nash, Visions of Canada, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1991. Second in term exam. Listed as N.

Neil Nevite, The Decline of Deference, Broadview Press, Peterborough (Ontario), 1996. Read by second term exam.

Veronica Strong-Boag ed., Painting the Maple, Vancouver, 1998. As B.

1) B=Strong-Boag · N=Nevite · S=Saul

1. Constructing Canadian Nationhood. B.vii-18 N.xvii-18 S.1-15
2. Canada: What Role for States? B.19-36 N.19-48 S.16-34
3. Canadian Majorities and Minorities. B.37-52 N.49-74 S.35-54
4. Canada and Empires. B.53-68 N.75-112 S.55-80
5. Class in Canada. B.69-84 N.113-156 S.81-100
6. Burdens of Canadian History. B. 85-99 N.157-204 S.101-120
7. Canadian Literature. B.100-112 N.207-243 S.121-126
8. Gender in Canada. B.113-129 N.243-284 S.127-131
9. Canadian Multiculturalism. B.130-154 N.285-end S.132-138
10. Canadian Fragmentation. B.155-172 S.139-184
11. Canadian Images and Symbols. B.173-186 S.185-207
12. Canadian Balance. B.187-214 S.208-230
13. Canada and Multinational Space. B.215-241 S.231-297
14. Canada and Selective Scholarship. B.242-261 S.298-361
15. We chose our symbols. B.262-end S.362-407
16. Canadian Studies and Mexico. S.408-end

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