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Toronto Family History: For King and Country online link (with thanks to Ward 3, TDSB Trustee Pamela Gough)
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter/by Jaan PillWard 3, Toronto District School Board Trustee Pamela Gough <Pamela.Gough@tdsb.on.ca> has shared the following link: For King and Country — A project to transcribe the war memorials in Toronto schools A.J. Casson of the Group of Seven was the artist who designed the illuminated lists of Canadian soldiers (former students) displayed in schools, including in […]
The evidence doesn’t back up the Military Revolution thesis: Jeremy Black (2011)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillMuseums have a relationship to history, a relationship that’s been explored in some depth. In Theorizing Museums (1996), there’s a reference to Timothy Mitchell’s observation that in nineteenth-century Europe, the museum exhibit was constructed as a simulation of external reality, with a clear sense of separation between the reality and the representation. A European museum-goer […]
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, […]
The first Crusade: Military leadership entails the management of violence
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillAmong the books I’ve been reading with regard to military history is Armies of heaven: The first Crusade and the quest for apocalypse (2011). Jay Rubenstein does a commendable job of citing sources in such a way that the story is driven forward at a steady pace, covering vast amounts of ground while maintaining the […]
With recent German heritage films, according to Anne Fuchs (2008), bad history emerges as a good story. I have added updates to this Dec. 18, 2011 post.
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillPhantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse (2008) is part of a publishing series at the University of Birmingham entitled New Perspectives in German Studies. The paragraph I have chosen to focus upon is on p. 143 of Chapter 5, which is entitled: “Narrating Resistance to the Third Reich: Museum Discourse, Autobiography, […]