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Monthly Archive: August 2016

  • New Books in Early Canadian History, 2016: Part 2

    Keith Grant Welcome to Part 2 of Borealia’s 2016 roundup of forthcoming books on early Canadian history. (You can find Part 1 here.) The list is drawn from publishers’ catalogues and websites, including books scheduled for release in 2016. I have included a few recently-released titles that escaped my attention in January. What kinds of books made… Continue Reading

    on August 29, 2016
  • Diversity and Sovereignty: How the Quebec Act enhanced, not weakened, the British Empire

    Aaron Willis The relationship between Britain and supranational structures has consistently raised questions of authority and sovereignty. While the E.U. has provided the most recent theatre for debates over these political concepts, in the eighteenth century it was the expanding empire that generated political crises and the attendant debates. The concept of sovereignty, often in… Continue Reading

    on August 15, 2016
  • Bear Years, Squirrel Years, and Environmental Politics on the St. Lawrence River, 1759-1796

    Loren Michael Mortimer In September of 1759, great armies were on the move through the upper St. Lawrence Valley. Not the military forces under the command of Montcalm and Wolfe en-route to their climactic showdown on the Plains of Abraham, but an army of black bears migrating en-masse southward from Canada into Britain’s Atlantic colonies.… Continue Reading

    on August 1, 2016

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  • Settler colonial violence and the Maritime fisheries

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