A York University research team will comb through digitized 19th-century documents to trace the environmental and economic consequences of international commodity trading during the 19th century. Led by Professor Colin Coates (left), Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes and professor of Canadian Studies at Glendon College, the project is expected to cast light on the impacts of […]
I’d like to wish you and your families a very Happy New Year for 2012 and to welcome everyone back to campus for the Winter Term. I hope everyone enjoyed the break, short though it was. In particular, I’d like to welcome a new colleague who will be with us this term: Professor Deepak Kumar, […]
In 1492, Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, determined to secure for Spain a more direct route to the riches of the Indies. Not long after Columbus returned, John Cabot, a failed Venetian bridge contractor on the lam from creditors, turned up in Seville, reinvented himself as an explorer and mounted a rival quest for England. […]
In 1945, the British Labour Party won by a landslide and introduced a public health system, public ownership of industry and educational reform. It had been generally assumed that whichever political party won in postwar Britain would do the same thing. Not so, argued York history Professor Stephen Brooke in his 1992 book, Labour’s War: The Labour […]
Last Wednesday (November 30), Bettina Bradbury won a significant research award. She was awarded the 2011 Principal’s Research Award at Glendon College. This award recognizes research excellence at Glendon College. Many congratulations, Bettina! This is a wonderful achievement.
Many congratulations also to our History colleague Paul Lovejoy on the appearance of his edition of The History of a Slave, originally published in 1889 by the British colonial official Sir Harry Johnston. This new edition, with an introduction on the work and the “scramble for Africa”, has been published (in both hardback and paperback) by […]
This is proving quite a bumper end of the year for members of the History Department. The Department wish to congratulate Jeremy Trevett (who is also currently Coordinator of Classical Studies) on his latest book: a translation, with detailed introductions and notes, of Demosthenes’ deliberative speeches (Speeches 1-17), most of which were delivered in the Athenian […]
Department of History congratulates Joan Judge, on the appearance of her latest book. Beyond Exemplar Tales: Women’s Biography in Chinese History, a volume of essays that Joan co-edited with Ying Hu (Univ. of California at Irvine), has recently appeared from the University of California Press (446 pp.). This is how the press describe the volume: This […]
About 100 years ago, peasants and archeologists rooting about in the remains of ancient settlements in central Egypt happened upon tens of thousands of documents on papyri. They were 2,000 years old. “Because Egypt is so dry, they had sat there for 2,000 years preserved under sand,” says historian Ben Kelly, a professor in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional […]
Stephen Brooke’s latest book, Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day, has just been published in the UK by Oxford University Press (304 pp.) and will soon be launched on this side of the Atlantic too. Here is a brief summary of the book: Sexual Politics explores the […]