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Grappling with the GAPE: A Canadian Perspective
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2010
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For a variety of reasons, the study and teaching of both United States history in general and the history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in particular should be thriving in Canada more than in other nations. Geographic proximity and shared language would advance this probability, even if the pervasive presence of American mass media did not. For students in Canadian colleges and universities, a combination of exposure to American doings through television and little prior academic opportunity to explore the history of the United States often whets an appetite for study at the post-secondary level. Interest in the GAPE arises — if for no other reason — from the fact that during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, both Canadians and Americans witnessed the emergence of corporate capitalism as a, perhaps the, principal shaper of their societies. At the last count in December 2001, Canada contained the largest concentration of H-SHGAPE subscribers outside the United States (25).
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- Essays
- Information
- The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 1 , Special Issue 4: Teaching the GAPE Internationally , October 2002 , pp. 296 - 307
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- Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2002
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1 Other inhabitants of the American continents tend to resist the powerful pull of the phrase “American history” because its excessive generality tends to elide the existence of their own national histories. In the rest of this essay, however, I will use “American” as an adjective to refer to things pertaining to the United States.
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4 I limited my investigation to survey responses, rather than examining university calendars, because of my suspicion that calendars may not offer an accurate guide to what is actually being taught.
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