History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past. Events occurring before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Historians place the past in context using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, ecological markers, and material objects including art and artifacts.History also includes the academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze a sequence of past events, and investigate the …

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UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 11 September 2024 French

Dans ses mémoires à la fois inspirants et émouvants, l’ingénieure de renommée internationale, Monique Aubry-Frize, O.C., raconte son parcours exceptionnel dans un domaine résolument dominé par les hommes.Très tôt, son …

mon premier livre, The Bold and the Brave: A History of Women in Science and Engineering (University


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 11 September 2024 French

Le moment Montfort dans la francophonie se penche sur la crise de l’Hôpital Montfort à travers une approche multidisciplinaire qui joint des chercheures et des chercheurs qui explorent dans cet …

Ontario, 1968-1986 », Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Bulletin canadien d’histoire médicale, vol. 34


NSP: New Society Publishers · 10 September 2024 English

The essential bestselling guide to designing and leading useful and effective group conversations, now completely revised and updated Integrating over 60 years of research and development, this essential guide to …

possibil- ities emerges from time to time throughout history—in the ancient Greek Lyceum, in the French salons


DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 September 2024 English

“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson YuRestaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame …

try to draw him out about other parts of his history, about his childhood in Toronto. Five children cuisine that Frankie remembered from personal history growing up around Trois- Pistoles in the eastern


DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 September 2024 English

their parents had been prisoners in Bergen-Belsen. But what their parents wouldn’t share about their history — including the fact they had also been in Auschwitz — ended up shaping their children’s lives. We

CHRISTOPHER R. BROWNING, professor emeritus of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This journey he took into his family’s heart-rending history led him from Wierzbnik, Poland, to Toronto, Canada camp survivors who shared a common language and history, comrades who were closer to them than my brothers would ever be. The unvoiced trauma of my parents’ history weighed heav- ily. I had hoped to countervail or more — anything — about my parents’ old country history, yet the prospect terrified me. I recalled the


FLA: Flanker Press · 6 September 2024 English

In a city of sinners… The Disciple is on a mission to rid the city of sinners. With a twisted view of the Bible, he finds unique ways to kill …

up for all the RDF in the world. That and the history which is evident in almost every corner of the because the house holds so much history, and the potential to keep that history alive fades more every day


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

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 history in pasts both distant distant and near. Reckoning with History begins by examining uses of the past in early modern Britain, a period in which print, religious reformation, and political conflict transformed historical culture. Later Throughout, contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past. Covering subjects such as early

and regulated psychoactive substances throughout history. The series connects research on legal and illegal Century Sara E. Black 6 Psychedelic New York A History of LSD in the City Chris Elcock 7 Disparate Remedies World, 1618–1968 Stuart AndersonReckoning with History Essays on Uses of the Past Making Medicines Official Cataloguing in Publication Title: Reckoning with history : essays on uses of the past / edited by K.J. Kesselring Ka-May Cheng 9 William Crookes and the Imagined History of Thallium 180 Ian Hesketh 10 The Jewish Holocaust


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

In What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy long-time election observer Jane Cooper recounts her experience monitoring a municipal election in Kirovohrad in 2015. Offering a framework for exploring what …

we ought to learn something about the recent history and the real lives of the Ukrainian people.WHAT Citizen activism in Ukrainian politics has a strong history, with mass demonstrations playing a major role Inevitably, they start with recent political history, including the Euro- maidan Revolution – which clues to the underlying economy, look for the history in the local architecture, and take in the planned means not only politics but also the economics, history, culture, and social life of the region. Long-term


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

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. …

within and outside of academia. 1 COVID-19 A History Jacalyn Duffin 2 Canada and Climate Change William calculat- ed the lifespan of empires throughout history. Before World War II, most people lived within that the average duration of empires throughout history was three or four generations. Most were short-lived conditions. Realism pervades the millennia-long history of Chinese statecraft. “Everything on earth is a recent book, Pekka Hämäläinen charts the history of the Lakota people, who have endured, he argues


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

accepted story seriously questioned. Beothuk demonstrates the impossibility of writing Indigenous history without Indigenous storytellers.

Labrador. | Csh: Beothuk—Newfoundland and Labrador— History. Classification: lCC e99.B4 a95 2024 | ddC 971 and Nova Scotia who participated in the oral history research and taught me so much more than I had I grew up with a keen awareness of the tragic history of the Indigenous Beothuk people on our island school, I was formally enlightened about the history of the Indigenous Beothuk in Newfoundland. We read Newfoundland itself. Intrigued, I delved into the history of these so-called intruders who I’d been taught


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