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‘I enjoy making presentations to large audiences’ (article in August 2012 newsletter of The Indian Stammering Association)
/2 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillMy volunteer work on behalf of people who stutter is largely in the past; my current volunteer work focuses on my local community. By way of example, I’m currently writing a series of blog posts related to the life and times of Colonel Samuel Smith, who built a log cabin in 1797 in what is […]
Imagined communities (Benedict Anderson, 1983, 1991) is a classic study of the nation-state concept
/0 Comments/in Long Branch/by Jaan PillAs I’ve noted elsewhere, we know little about the personality of Colonel Samuel Smith. Because he built a cabin in 1797, after the American Revolutionary War, on what is now the school grounds of Parkview School at 85 Forty First Street in Long Branch, in the southwest corner of the City of Toronto, his story is […]
Beyond the military revolution: War in the seventeenth-century world (Jeremy Black, 2011)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillJeremy 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, […]