Lauraly Deschambault et Gregory Kennedy Dans le cadre du projet de partenariat, Service militaire, citoyenneté et culture politique au Canada atlantique, 1700-2000, nous menons une étude sur la contribution des miliciens acadiens et canadiens à la Guerre de Sept ans en Nouvelle-France. L’historiographie portant sur cette guerre continue à mettre l’accent sur le débat stratégique… Continue Reading
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Hilary Doda This post begins an occasional series on Material Histories. Using artifacts as a lens, frameworks from archaeology and other fields of material history can be extremely helpful for historians seeking to incorporate different, often non-literate, voices into their understanding of past societies. ~ Editors A small green glass jewel in a plated metal… Continue Reading
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Ollivier Hubert and François Furstenberg, eds., Entangling the Quebec Act: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020). Adam Nadeau In Entangling the Quebec Act: Transnational Contexts, Meanings, and Legacies in North America and the British Empire, editors Ollivier Hubert and François Furstenberg present… Continue Reading
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Katie Barclay Eric H. Reiter, Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History, 2019), pp. 482 + xiii. This week as I write this (much delayed – sorry editor) post, my university is running its consultation with staff about improving workplace culture about… Continue Reading
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Dan Horner On the night of April 25, 1849, a riled-up crowd of protesters showered Montreal’s parliament building with rocks, stormed through its front doors, and set the building—a repurposed public market in the city’s west-end—on fire. In many ways, the Rebellion Losses Riot stemmed from the same sense of grievance that shaped the unrest… Continue Reading
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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS June 24-25, 2021 Sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) @PMTC2021 #PandemicMethodologies In the past year, archives and libraries have closed (either permanently or periodically), non-essential international travel has been heavily discouraged or impossible, and anyone who can has been encouraged to work from home. In these circumstances, historians have had to… Continue Reading
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APPEL À PARTICIPATION Les 24-25 juin 2021 Parrainée par la Société historique du Canada (SHC) @PMTC2021 #PandemicMethodologies Au cours de l’année écoulée, les archives et les bibliothèques ont fermé (de façon permanente ou périodiquement), les voyages internationaux non essentiels ont été fortement découragés, voire impossibles, et tous ceux qui le pouvaient ont été encouragés à… Continue Reading
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Arnaud Montreuil Peut-il être intéressant pour les historiens de la Nouvelle-France et du Early Canada de comparer la société néofrançaise à la société médiévale ? Dans le billet précédent, j’ai avancé que cela pouvait être le cas, et que cette avenue méritait d’être explorée. Mais attention : il ne s’agit pas d’utiliser cette comparaison pour diminuer… Continue Reading
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Arnaud Montreuil Could it be interesting for historians of New France and early Canada to compare New French society to medieval society? In the first part of this post, I suggested that this might be the case, and that this avenue deserves to be explored.[1] The point of this comparison is not to diminish New… Continue Reading
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Arnaud Montreuil With the arrival of the first explorers, then as settlers began to claim land, medieval West burgeoned in the Americas.[1] This is the idea put forward by historian Jérôme Baschet in a series of works, including his book La civilisation féodale: de l’an mil à la colonisation de l’Amérique and his article “Un… Continue Reading
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