Outline

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Topics:

 * Concepts
 * Evaluating Articles and Books

Required Reading:
//Text book:// Jeffrey Keshen and Serge Durflinger, “Introduction: War and Military in Canadian History and Historiography,” in //War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada// //Course Reader:// Stephen Harris, “Introduction: Military Professionalism” in Canadian Brass: The Making of a Professional Army 1860-1939 Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, “The Principles of War” //Online:// Peter Stearns, “Why Study History” @http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm

Suggested Reading:
E.C. Russell, selection from //Customs and Traditions of the Canadian Armed Forces// John D. Keegan, “The Principles of War”

Topics:

 * The Road to Confederation
 * Canada's Military at Confederation
 * Evaluating Newspapers and News Journals

Required Reading:
//Text book:// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 41-93 //Course Reader:// George F. Stanley, “The Beginning of the Volunteer System in Canada, 1840-1867”

Suggested Reading:
//Course Reader:// R. Douglas Francis and Donald B. Smith, “The Road to Confederation”

Topics:

 * The Young Nation
 * Military Developments
 * Evaluating Archival Sources
 * Discussion: The Militia Myth

Required Reading:
//Text book:// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 85-107 Keshen and Durflinger, “The Northwest Campaign,” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections:
 * Introduction to Module
 * House of Commons Debates, “Laurier on the Riel Question”
 * Toronto Globe, “Attacking the Government”
 * Montreal Gazette, “Defending the Government”
 * Gabriel Dumont, “The Metis Military Leader Makes the Case for Rebellion”
 * Desmond Morton, “French Canadian Troops in the North-West Campaign of 1885”
 * J.L. Granatstein, “The Military Campaign”

Suggested Reading:
//Course Reader:// R. Douglas Francis and Donald B. Smith, “The Road to Confederation”

Topics:

 * Imperialism, Continentalism and Nationalism
 * Imperialism, Nationalism and Canada’s Military, 1883-1914
 * Evaluating Internet Sources

Required Reading:
//Textbook// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 107-29. //Course Reader// Desmond Morton, “Canada’s First Expeditionary Force: The Canadian Contingent in South Africa, 1899-1900” Barry Gough and Roger Sarty, “Sailors and Soldiers: The Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Forces, and the Defence of Atlantic Canada, 1890-1914”

Suggested Reading:
//Text book:// Francis, Jones and Smith, Destinies, chapter 5. Mike O’Brien, “Manhood and the Militia Myth: Masculinity, Class and Militarism in Ontario, 1902-1914,” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada

Topics:

 * Canadianization of the Corps
 * The Hundred Days
 * Evaluating Biographies and Oral History

Required Reading:
//Text book:// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 130-65. Keshen and Durflinger, “Remembering Vimy,” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections: //Course Reader:// Paul Dickson, “The End of the Beginning: The Canadian Corps in 1917” Shane B. Schreiber, “Fine: Conclusions”
 * Col. A. F. Duguid, “Canada on Vimy Ridge”
 * Reginald H. Roy, “Vimy Ridge: A View from the Ranks”
 * Will R. Bird, “Ghosts Have Warm Hands"

Suggested Reading:
//Textbook// Francis, Jones and Smith, Destinies, chapter 10.

Topics:

 * The Russian Excursion
 * Strategy and Tactics
 * Navy and Air Force in WWI
 * Recruitment
 * The Interventionist State in Total War
 * Women, Social Reformers and War
 * Evaluating Movies/Documentaries
 * Discussion: The War Measures Act and Censorship

Required Reading:
//Course Reader// S.F. Wise, “The Aerial War, 1917” Roger Sarty, “Hard Luck Flotilla: The RCN’s Atlantic Coast Patrol, 1914-1918” //Text book// Keshen and Durflinger, “Managing the Truth,” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections:
 * Canada Gazette, “Censorship Legislation”
 * Chief Press Censor Records, “Implementing Censorship Legislation”
 * William Boyd, “With a Field Ambulance at Ypres”
 * Ian Hugh Maclean Miller, “ Our Glory and Our Grief….”
 * Jeff Keshen, “Words as Weapons….”

Suggested Reading:
Francis, Jones and Smith, Destinies, pp. 255-7.

Topics:

 * The Interwar Period: Political, Economic, and Social Context
 * Military Developments in the Interwar Period
 * Canada and the Outbreak of the Second World War
 * Evaluating War Games

Required Reading:
//Text book:// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 165-224. //Course Reader:// Stephen Harris, “Training and Education, 1919-1939”

Suggested Reading:
//Text book:// Francis, Jones and Smith, Destinies, chapters 11 (especially “From Colony to Nation” pages 265-267) and 12 (skim). //Course Reader:// James Eayrs, “‘A Low Dishonest Decade’: Aspects of Canadian External Policy, 1931-1939”

Topics:

 * Military Failures
 * North West Europe
 * Pacific
 * Leadership
 * Evaluating Photo Essays and Fiction

Required Reading:
//Text book:// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 193-224. Keshen and Durflinger, “Becoming Seasoned Soldiers,” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections:
 * Martin, “Battle Diary”
 * Blackburn, “The Guns of Normandy”
 * Copp and McAndrew, “Battle Exhaustion….”

Suggested Reading:
//Text book:// Francis, Jones and Smith, Destinies, chapter 13. Optional Reading A.E. Powley, “Broadcast From the Front,” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada Peloquin, “A Conspiracy of Silence…” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada Villa, Brian Loring. “The Bare Facts of a Historical Tragedy,” (located at the end of the Course Reader in the Topic A section of the Assignment 3.1 Articles) Henshaw, Peter. “The Dieppe Raid: A Product of Misplaced Nationalism?” (located at the end of the Course Reader in the Topic A section of the Assignment 3.1 Articles)

Topics:
Required Reading: //Text book:// Keshen and Durflinger, “The Air War: Canadian Participation in Bomber Command” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections: //Course Readers:// > Marc Milner, “The Implications of Technological Backwardness: The Canadian Navy 1939-45”
 * Battle of the Atlantic
 * No 6 Bomber Group
 * Greenhous et al, “The Crucible of War…”
 * Peden, “A Bomber Pilot’s War”

Topics:

 * Sicily and Italy
 * Recruitment, Mobilization and Conscription
 * Wartime Economy
 * Regional Impacts
 * Treatment of Minorities
 * Women and Labour
 * Canada and the World in 1945
 * Demobilization
 * Discussion: Was there ever a failure in high command in Normandy?

Required Reading:
//Text book:// Keshen and Durflinger, “A Nation Transformed” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections:
 * Dexter, “Canada and the Building of Peace”
 * Forbes, “Consolidating Disparity”
 * Greenhous and Hillmer, “The Impact of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan on Western Canada”

Optional Readings
W. Peter Ward, “British Columbia and the Japanese Evacuation” (located at the end of the Course Reader in the Topic C section of the Assignment 3.1 Articles) J.L. Granatstein and Gregory A. Johnson, “The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version” (located at the end of the Course Reader in the Topic C section of the Assignment 3.1 Articles) Pierson, Ruth Roach. Canadian Women and the Second World War. Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association 1983, Historical Booklet No. 37, 3-29. (Online at: @http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cha-shc/index-e.html) Jeffrey Keshen, "Revisiting Canada's Civilian Women During World War II," (located at the end of the Course Reader in the Topic E section of the Assignment 3.1 Articles)

Topics:

 * The Golden Age in Canada
 * Canada's Military in the Cold War
 * Canada and the Korean War
 * The American Influence on the Canadian Military

Required Reading:
//Text book// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 225-254. Keshen and Durflinger, “Veterans of the World Wars” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections: Keshen and Durflinger, “Canada and the Cold War” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections:
 * Tremblay, “Going Back to Main Street”
 * Pearson, “On Signing the North Atlantic Treaty”
 * Richter, “Avoiding Armageddon”
 * Granatstein, “The American Influence on the Canadian Military, 1939-1963”

Suggested Reading:
//Course Reader// David Bercuson, selection from Blood on the Hills: The Canadian Army in the Korean War.

Topics:

 * The birth of peacekeeping, 1947-54
 * The Golden age of peacekeeping: UNEF 1
 * Outside the UN: Indochina, Nigeria, MFO
 * The Congo: Anomaly or Precedent
 * Cyprus: The Never-Ending Song: 99 bottles of Beer on the Wall
 * Peacekeeping and Canadian Defence Policy

Required Reading:
//Course Reader// J. L. Granatstein and D. Bercuson, “Peacekeeping: The Mid-East and Indo-China,” Sean Maloney, “‘Mad Jimmy’ Dextraze: The Tightrope of UN Command in the Congo.” Sean Maloney, “‘Global Mobile’: Flexible Response, Peacekeeping and the Origins of Forces Mobile Command, 1958-1964.”

Suggested Reading:
Major David Last, “Almost a Legacy: Canada’s Contribution to Peacekeeping,”

Topics:

 * Modernizing the Military
 * The Role of the Modern Military in Domestic Disputes

Required Reading:
//Textbook// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 247-269; 273-277.Keshen and Durflinger, “Aid to the Civil Power: The October Crisis and Oka” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections:
 * Bain, “The Making of a Crisis”
 * Privy Council Records, “Canada’s Cabinet Considers Its Options”
 * Sean Maloney, “A ‘Mere Rustle of Leaves’”
 * Maclean’s, “A Case for Military Intervention”
 * Goodleaf, Entering the War Zone”
 * Beauregard, “The Military Intervention in Oka”

Suggested Reading:
Francis, Jones and Smith, Destinies, chapters 15, 17, 18 and 19 (skim all chapters).

Topics:

 * Aftermath of the Cold War
 * Gulf War 1
 * Kosovo Air Campaign
 * A new Kind of War in the 21st Century
 * Afghanistan
 * Discussion: What Kind of Armed Forces do we want?

Required Reading:
//Textbook// Desmond Morton, A Military History of Canada, 270-318. Keshen and Durflinger, “Peacemaking and Stability Operations: Somalia and the Balkans” in War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada, read the following selections:
 * Bercuson, “Significant Incident”
 * Windsor, “Professionalism Under Fire”

Suggested Reading:
//Text book// Francis, Jones and Smith, Destinies, Chapter 20 (skim) //Course Reader//
 * Commodore Duncan (Dusty) Miller and Sharon Hobson, selection from The
 * Persian Excursion. The Canadian Navy in the Gulf War.
 * Joel J. Sokolsky, “Glued to its Seat: Canada and Its Alliances in the Post Cold War Era.”

Optional Reading
Keshen and Durflinger, War and Society in Post-Confederation Canada
 * Davis, “A Soldier’s Story”