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Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, offers the following courses on Atlantic Canadian topics.

• History 2007: The Atlantic World, 1650-1800: European Empires in the Americas

  Instructor: Jerry Bannister, Associate Professor, Department of History

  This course explores the Atlantic world created by the expansion of European empires in the Americas. It traces the development of colonial societies from the rise of European settlements in the mid-seventeenth century to the fall of imperial regimes in the early nineteenth century.

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• History 2271: Atlantic Canada to Confederation

  Instructor: Jerry Bannister, Associate Professor, Department of History

  This course examines the development of the Atlantic region from the arrival of European peoples to Confederation. It explores topics such as relations between Europeans and Aboriginal peoples, the imperial struggle for North America, the expulsion of the Acadians, the arrival of the Loyalists, and the rise of reform movements in the nineteenth century.

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• History 2272: Atlantic Canada Since Confederation

  Instructor: Jerry Bannister, Associate Professor, Department of History

  This course examines the development of the Atlantic region since 1867. We will explores a number of themes, such as the debates over Confederation, regional economic development, the impact of the First World War, the Maritime Rights movement, resettlement schemes in the 1960s, and the renaissance in Acadian culture.

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• History 3472W: Nova Scotia After Confederation

  Instructor: Claire Campbell, Assistant Professor, Department of History

  This course surveys the history of Nova Scotia from the 1860s to the present day. Topics include the debate over Confederation, the nature of Victorian society, the world wars, economic upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s, aboriginal and black communities, heritage and tourism, and Nova Scotia's political and intellectual relationship with the rest of Canada.

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• History 8220: Atlantic Canada in the Atlantic World

  Instructor: Jerry Bannister, Associate Professor, Department of History

  This graduate level course explores the historiography of the Atlantic world and its relationship to the study of Atlantic Canada.

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