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Condominium development in Port Dalhousie heritage conservation district
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillI subscribe to an e-mail newsletter from the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario. You can subscribe at the ACO website, which you can access through the link in the previous sentence. From time to time I like to post excerpts from such publications. The most recent edition of the ACO newsletter features the news items posted below. […]
Update regarding 11 Lake Promenade. The Committee of Adjustment meeting is on Nov. 22, 2012 at 3:00 pm.
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillA local resident who’s contacted us moved into the Long Branch neighbourhood in June 2012. He reports he was extremely happy with the Jane’s Walks in May 2012 in Mimico and Long Branch as this provided him with “the ideal introduction into the neighbourhood.” “We were recently on your website and saw that you had […]
Trees for Life is concerned with the health value of trees
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Mississauga, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWhenever I hear about a project such as Trees for Life, I attend very closely. The following information is from an October 26, 2012 Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) document (pp. 58-61), which you can access by clicking on the following link: AuthorityAgenda#08-12_October26_2012 I recently attended an all-day conference in Toronto based on the […]
Methodological individualism, network analysis, and the emergence of postmodernity
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillPeter Burke’s History and social theory, second edition (2005) deals with links between history and social theory. The book has been discussed in other blog posts, which can be found in the Historiography category at this website. Imagination in historical practice Reading this book has vastly enhanced and clarified my understanding of the role — and […]
Ghosts of Empire (2011) analyzes British imperialism from the perspective of its rulers
/2 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillThere was nothing liberal about the British empire, claims to the contrary notwithstanding. In Ghosts of Empire (2011), Kwasi Kwarteng argues that “Britain’s empire was not liberal in the sense of being a plural, democratic society. The empire openly repudiated ideas of human equality and put power and responsibility into the hands of a chosen elite, drawn […]
What is history now? (2002) is edited by David Cannadine
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillJohn Vincent in 1966 wrote that the great moral idea of British liberalism was manliness. This is a topic Susan Pedersen discusses in a chapter entitled “What is political history now?” in What is history now? (2002). According to Vincent, for a nineteenth-century man one’s assignment in life was “to provide for his own family, have his own […]