Scholarship: War, Conflict, and History
War has long played a central role in the human experience and the scholarship of history; indeed, it might be said that the first “scientific historian” was the Athenian historian Thucydides, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War. If war no longer takes pride of place in most university history departments, it nonetheless remains a vital and lively source of scholarly debates. In this course, we engage with these debates, examining the variety of ways in which historians think about war, conflict, and militaries. We touch not only on the domain of traditional military historians (those who study actual war, strategy, and tactics), but also those who set war in a broader social context, and those who seek to understand war, conflict and violence through the lenses of memory and culture.
Department: Division of Arts and Humanities
University: Quest University Canada
Years offered: 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020