Appel à communications Colloque d’histoire interdisciplinaire, Université McGill, Montréal, le 26-27 octobre 2019 Depuis des siècles, la partie septentrionale de l’Amérique du Nord, vaste territoire peu peuplé, a fonctionné comme un improbable carrefour international. Les voyages longue distance, souvent entrepris dans d’intimidantes conditions, ont longtemps servi à connecter des lieux et des peuples autrement… Continue Reading
Monthly Archive: January 2019
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Call for Papers Conference at McGill University, Montreal, 26-27 October 2019 This conference will look at the long-distance movement of people, goods and ideas that put Canada in touch with global circuits before there was a Canada. For centuries, the northern half of the continent functioned as an unlikely international carrefour. Long-distance travel under daunting… Continue Reading
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David Wilson This article originated as a paper given at the Canadian Association for Irish Studies annual conference at Quebec in June 2018. Think of this as an essay on the three sins of recycling history, reading history backwards, and misusing evidence. It concerns Jim McDermott, a Fenian firebrand from New York who enters Canadian… Continue Reading
