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I was born in Sweden in 1946 after my parents and brother and additional members of our extended family fled Estonia in 1944 before the Soviet occupying forces sealed the borders of the Baltic states. I grew up in Montreal. A memory from the first five years of my life, in Sweden in the late […]
In a previous blog post I described what Steve Roud (2006) has characterized as a traditional English event occurring in the first Saturday in May. That is a day that corresponds with Saturday, May 4, 2013. In the context of the Sunday, May 5, 2013 Jane’s Walk in South Long Branch, we turn next to what […]
As Eric Hobsbawm has remarked in a classic study, The invention of tradition (1983), traditions don’t spring out of nowhere. They have to be invented. The same can be said of nation states, which Benedict Arnold famously spoke of as imagined communities. As a March 28, 2013 Globe and Mail article indicates, sometimes these imagined communities have a limited impact on […]
Updates A Feb. 20, 2014 CBC article is entitled: “Are we doomed? Elizabeth Kolbert explains why the world might be in the midst of a major mass extinction.” A July 24, 2014 New Yorker article is entitled: “Spare the rod, school the child.” The article notes that a causal chain links the health of ocean […]
In Manliness and militarism: Educating young boys in Ontario for war (2001), Mark Moss speaks of a tradition of comparing hunting to warfare. Since antiquity, according to Moss, hunting has been viewed as a war game which served the purpose of preparing young boys for combat. In the author’s view, hunting was seen, in the period between 1867 […]
Jeremy Black is author of many books, three of which I’ll discuss in this blog post: (1) Beyond the military revolution: War in the seventeenth-century world (2011). (2) War and the new disorder in the 21st century (2004) and (3) War and the cultural turn (2012). In Beyond the military revolution (2011), Jeremy Black demonstrates cogency, […]
The event had a good turnout Gary Miedema of Heritage Toronto did a great job of coordinating the publicity for this event, one of a series of 1812 lectures occurring this year across Toronto. Gary Miedema is Chief Historian and Associate Director at Heritage Toronto. He’s also the author of For Canada’s Sake: Public Religion, Centennial […]
It was Ken St. Louis who remarked to us years ago that some projects are too big for one or two people to do on their own. I am very pleased to know that Ken St. Louis has received a significant career award. Ken St. Louis has worked with colleagues around the world to develop […]