University of Calgary
HTST 472 - Brit Frontier Society Since1500 - Summer 2009
The ecological history of British frontier societies. Topics may include the Columbian exchange and fatal impact theses; contemporary and modern perceptions of the environment, land use, and settlement patterns; and investigation into indigenous and European approaches to biological, ecological and climatological management. Regions may include the Americas, India and the East Indies, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
This course may not be repeated for credit.This course will be offered next in Winter 2016.
This course may not be repeated for credit.
Hours
- H(3-0)
Sections
LEC 69 S 13:00 - 18:30 Notes: Did pigs control humans? Were people really afraid of lightning and hurricanes? Rapists or benevolent stewards-how did colonists farm their land? What is nature? North America was a very different place in 1800 compared to today. This seminar will examine four broad regions of this continent: Upper and Lower Canada, New England, the Chesapeake, and the Caribbean. These landscapes changed dramatically after the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Historian Alfred Crosby outlines this profound shift as part of a greater imperial movement, one much less political or militaristic, and more environmental. How plants, animals, and diseases transformed the landscape and aided in the expansion of this European enterprise will be one issue this course faces.
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