GGR318H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Annales School, Standing Army, Flag Of Canada
Document Summary
Argument: state is there to facilitate the process of capitalism and ensure that it survives. The annales school: criticism of early 20th century scholarship, excessive detail, focus on political events, annales school stressed economic and social roots of history. A lot of history was focused upon leaders and wars focus on who we see as being important. We have a problem with history because its too focused on documentation and we have a legal approach. It removes people from society who are not part of that documentation. If we focus upon written history, we ignore pre-settlement of canada and the interaction between natives and european. Neo-marxist critique of development theory: franks critique of modernization - relationships between development and underdevelopment. Wallerstein"s world-systems analysis develops upon marxist"s theory. Mode of production is about how society is organized and the relationships within society, issues of control and who controls distribution. He broke society into three models of production.
