Episode 50: Canadian Energy History [54:06] Download Audio Since Confederation, Canadians have been high per capita energy consumers and our appetites for energy have grown substantially over the past 148 years. The way we consume energy has changed quite a bit over that time period too. In 1867, Canadians drew energy primarily from organic […]
Award-winning historian James Daschuk will present a lecture on Sir John A. Macdonald’s policies toward First Nations of the Great Plains when he is featured in the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffman Lecture in Environmental History at York U on Nov. 18. “Clearing the Plains and Clearing the Air: Environmental History and National Memory in 2015” will explore […]
Dear members of the History Department It gives me great pleasure to announce that our colleague Boyd Cothran has won an award. His book, Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence, received the 2015 Robert M. Utley Prize from the Western History Association. The Utley is given annually by the […]
York University Professor Emeritus of history Richard Hoffmann won the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize for his environmental trek through medieval Europe. The Canadian Society of Medievalists, an academic organization devoted to supporting research excellence in all facets of medieval studies, awarded the prize in honour of his book An Environmental History of Medieval Europe (Cambridge […]
Dear members of the History Department, It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that our colleague Jennifer Bonnell won an award of excellence at the 2015 Heritage Toronto Awards for her book, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley (University of Toronto Press, 2014). Here is the citation composed by the awards […]
Dear members of the History Department, I am sure you will join me in congratulating our colleague Jaclyn Neel on the appearance of her latest book: Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome (Brill, 2015). Here’s how the press describes the book: “In Legendary Rivals, Jaclyn Neel argues for a […]
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Dear members of the Department, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our colleague Joan Judge’s latest book: Republican Lens. Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press (University of California Press, 2015). Here’s a brief description of the volume: What can we learn about modern Chinese […]