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Article: The evolution of "new political history" in English-Canadian historiography: from cliometrics to cliodiversity.
- Article from:
- American Review of Canadian Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Traditional political history in English-speaking Canada has been in retreat for the past twenty-five years. Where once they dominated the profession, now the scholars who teach and study past political phenomena have become, at many Canadian universities, if not an endangered species, then certainly an outnumbered one. (1) Once an elite who investigated elites, now they have been marginalized by those who investigate the marginalized. History from the bottom up, now sits on top. Ironies abound.
As one measure of this remarkable changeover, a comparative examination of the articles published forty years ago versus those from the present era in The Canadian ...