Historians

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with …

intellectual culture of early modern England’s historians, chroniclers, and antiquaries, he later moved … He has shown that “professional” or acade- mic historians have long been in dialogue with lay audiences … Queen’s University, Kingston, at a time when historians of early Stuart Britain argued vig- orously over … revolu- tion. From the mid-1970s, “revisionist” historians, as some called them, issued strong challenges … Thought, 1590– 4 Matthew Neufeld1640.”4 While historians of his own day argued about the causes of the …

The Adaptable Country outlines straightforward policy reforms to improve adaptability – the capacity to anticipate and manage danger. In a turbulent world, authoritarian rule is a tempting path to security. …

Upper and Lower Canada. Until recently, Canadian historians neglected the most desperate struggle for survival …

Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integration of Indigenous perspectives, beginning in the 1920s, was this accepted …

people in North America. Archaeologists and historians have identified the Helluland, Markland, and … within historical writing.63 As established by historians and philosophers of history, historical narrative … narrative is Hayden White’s observation that modern historians tend to rank the sig- nificance of historical …

Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd¬ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy …

a number of different lives. Environmental historians have not written a lot about the Great Lakes … similar observations. So too did naturalists and historians in the newly minted Dominion of Canada.2 However …

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

accidents are often tied to notions of human agency. Historians have found the distinctions between accidents … dividuals within a society.16 As a collective of historians intrigued by the accident in the past, we are … in much historical literature on the accident, historians have also contributed rich empirical studies … works as public- health researchers, labour historians, and cultural-history scholars interro- gating … articles and book chapters by a handful of Canadian historians who have worked on the period from 1900 to 1950 …

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

togeth- er cutting-edge books written by academic historians on criminal justice, welfare, education, health … or Forsaken? therefore asks the question all historians of child emigration have struggled to answer: … Eloise Moss to spend three months connecting with historians, researchers, and child migrant charities in … word ‘stories’ is used deliberately here. As historians of child emigration have long since observed …

From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …

always so informally organized, however. Other historians of London have argued that, by the middle of … and sites for care.40 For more than a century, historians have argued that war largely ex- plains why, … could not produce from its own resources.48 Historians have therefore highlighted the salience of personal … it according to con- temporary practice.65 Two historians in particular deserve special men- tion: Patricia … coastal communities. Sources constrain what historians can construct about past reality. Unquestionably …

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

of global capitalist modernity.9 Yet, because historians have tended to approach supranationalism in …

Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …

Roosevelt – made much of at the time and later by historians – that produced the Atlantic Charter, a statement …

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

powers has received little attention to date from historians. This book considers that role in the British … received some atten- Introduction 13tion from historians.50 Pratik Chakrabarti cites a letter sent by … some publicly recognized body’.97 Discussion by historians has usu- ally focused on particular countries … economists, as well as medical and pharmaceutical historians. Schol- ars are interested in them for many reasons … diversification hypothesis may have utility for historians interested in how exotic plants came to be included …