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This course explores the histories and interactions of the peoples who inhabited Quebec from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Themes to be investigated include the Aboriginal experience of colonization; relations between centre and periphery in an imperial era; the struggle for place...

HIST 2229 is a survey of the British Empire from its beginning until present. Between the reigns of two Elizabeths, Britain expanded from the islands off the coast of Europe to encompass territories encircling the globe. The largest expire ever known lasted three centuries in one form or other and...

This course begins with a study of the most pertinent aspects of French history during the last years of the Old Regime. Special attention will be given to the social, economic and intellectual origins of the Revolutions of 1789, 1830, and 1848. The impact of the French example on the rest of...

Discontinued as of Summer Semester 2025. A history of Russia from 1812 to 1917, from Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 to Czar Nicholas II abdication in 1917 - with particular emphasis upon social and intellectual trends and upon the rise of revolutionary movements.Prerequisite(s): Any History...

The Franks first appear in historical sources during the third century A.D. as a group of undistinguished barbarians living in the lowlands north and east of the Rhine frontier of the Roman Empire. From this undistinguished beginning, they created the most powerful of all the barbarian kingdoms and...