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 […]
“What’s So ‘New’ About the New Multicultural Brazil?” by Jeffrey Lesser, history department chair at Emory University, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy (Duke, 2007) and other books on immigrants and minorities in Brazil. Lesser analyzes the changes in that country’s ethnic and cultural mix due to immigration policies that have attracted […]
For those who missed TVO’s The Agenda this past Friday evening, you can watch the fascinating discussion about the place of history in Canada today and the best ways of engaging with Canada’s past history, you can watch a video of our History colleague Craig Heron and the others discussing these questions on the TVO […]
Department of History congratulates Ben Kelly on the publication of his first book. Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt (427 pp.) was published recently by Oxford University Press in Oxford for its series Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Here the press’s description of the volume: This book examines the contribution that petitioning and litigation made […]
Douglas Hunter, a PhD candidate in the Graduate Program in History published his latest book, The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery (288 pp.). It was published recently by Palgrave Macmillan both in hardback and as an e-book. This is how the press describe the volume: The final […]