This week, History and Economics Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dr. J. Andrew Ross is featured on a New York Times panel investigating "Should Democracies Have Monarchs?" Dr. Ross weighs the pros and cons to explain how the monarchy works in Canada. Read the rest of the story at the New York Times.
This week, History and Economics Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dr. J. Andrew Ross is featured on a New York Times panel investigating "Should Democracies Have Monarchs?" Dr. Ross weighs the pros and cons to explain how the monarchy works in Canada. Read the rest of the story at the New York Times.
Dr. Norman Smith's latest book, Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China’s Northeast, has won the 2013 Gourmand Wine Books Award – Best Drink History Book, Canada (English).
For more on the award visit Gourmand International.
Congratulations from all of us!
Dr. Norman Smith's latest book, Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China’s Northeast, has won the 2013 Gourmand Wine Books Award – Best Drink History Book, Canada (English).
For more on the award visit Gourmand International.
Congratulations from all of us!
Our own Dr. Renée Worringer, Associate Professor, has just published a new book: Ottomans Imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and Non-Western Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
From the dust jacket: The roots of today's "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West are not solely anchored in the legacy of the crusades or the early Islamic conquests: in many ways, it is a more contemporary story rooted in the 19th-century history of resistance to Western hegemony. And as this compellingly argued and carefully researched transnational study shows, the Ottoman Middle East believed it had found an ally and exemplar for this resistance in Meiji Japan. Here, author Renee Worringer details the ways in which Japan loomed in Ottoman consciousness at the turn of the twentieth century, exploring the role of the Japanese nation as a model for Ottomans in attaining "non-Western" modernity in a global order dominated by the West.
The volume is published by Palgrave/MacMillan. Congratulations from all of us!
Our own Dr. Renée Worringer, Associate Professor, has just published a new book: Ottomans Imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and Non-Western Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
From the dust jacket: The roots of today's "clash of civilizations" between the Islamic world and the West are not solely anchored in the legacy of the crusades or the early Islamic conquests: in many ways, it is a more contemporary story rooted in the 19th-century history of resistance to Western hegemony. And as this compellingly argued and carefully researched transnational study shows, the Ottoman Middle East believed it had found an ally and exemplar for this resistance in Meiji Japan. Here, author Renee Worringer details the ways in which Japan loomed in Ottoman consciousness at the turn of the twentieth century, exploring the role of the Japanese nation as a model for Ottomans in attaining "non-Western" modernity in a global order dominated by the West.
The volume is published by Palgrave/MacMillan. Congratulations from all of us!
As a Parliamentary Guide, you can hone your speaking abilities, perfect your second official language and form special friendships with people from coast to coast.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over Canada and around the world are guided through the historic corridors of the Parliament Buildings.
We are proud of the more than 20 years of guiding tradition:
Our own Dr. Catherine Carstairs, Associate Professor and new Department Chair (since July) has just published a new collection of essays with co-editor Nancy Janovicek of the University of Calgary:
Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation
From the dust jacket: This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the debates, themes, and methodological approaches that have preoccupied women's and gender historians across Canada over the past twenty years. The chapters that follow showcase the work of new and established scholars who draw on the insights of critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women's political action.
The volume is published by UBC Press. Congratulations from all of us!
Our own Dr. Catherine Carstairs, Associate Professor and new Department Chair (since July) has just published a new collection of essays with co-editor Nancy Janovicek of the University of Calgary:
Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation
From the dust jacket: This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the debates, themes, and methodological approaches that have preoccupied women's and gender historians across Canada over the past twenty years. The chapters that follow showcase the work of new and established scholars who draw on the insights of critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women's political action.
The volume is published by UBC Press. Congratulations from all of us!
This semester, Dr. Elizabeth Ewan, University Research Chair and Professor of History, led a UNIV 1200, First Year Seminar course called Scotch Myths: Icons of a Small Country.
The course examines the history and uses of Scottish icons and stereotypes and looks at how they have represented the country both in the past and the present. Among the famous icons the class examined were bagpipes, whisky, William Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, tartan, and the Loch Ness Monster. Students also used the research skills they developed in the course to look at how images and icons of Canada are used. Pictured here: A few of Dr. Ewan's students and the famous University of Guelph canon, decorated in honor of the course.