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Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – February & March 2019

March 1, 2019 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

image showing six books covers featured in this blog post

Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes releases in both English and French. To see the releases from last month, click here.

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – January & February 2019

January 25, 2019 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

an image including six of the book covers featured in this blog.

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

Historians’ Histories: Heather Green

December 11, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. This latest entry features fellow Cape Bretoner and Yukon trekker Heather Green. She was kind enough to take some time from her busy adventure schedule to share with us!

Heather Green is a post-doctoral fellow with the Wilson Institute in Canadian History at McMaster University where she studies transnational tourism in the Yukon, specifically the rise of sport hunting, conservation policy, and Indigenous engagement. She is also a Fulbright Canada scholar with the University of Arizona examining the ways in which Indigenous groups in Arizona developed guiding and outfitting businesses for tourists in the early 20^th century. She is also this year’s New Scholars representative for NiCHE! You can find her on Twitter @heathergreen21 usually tweeting about #envhist, the Yukon, and her dog, Whiskey!

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – December 2018

December 7, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

A banner containing 6 of this month's featured books.

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

Halloween Special II – Charles Havard and the Blasphemed Crucifix

October 30, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

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Special thanks to Andrea Eidinger and Michelle Desveaux for their help with this post.

Happy Halloween! As a historian of witchcraft and blasphemy, this is really my time of year. Last year’s Halloween special was such a hit that we decided to put together another one. Rather than discuss witchcraft cases at large in New France, this year we’ll be looking at the 1742 trial of François-Charles Havard de Beauford – lawyer, soldier, public entertainer, and sorcerer. – a true jack of all trades who was arrested for performing a divination spell.

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – October/November 2018

October 19, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

Cover image featuring six books featured in this month's upcoming pubs

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

Ordinary Women – Jeanne Dugas of Acadie

September 25, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 6 Comments

Grand-Pré, UNESCO World Heritage site. Photo Credit Claire Campbell.

This is the second post in our blog series, “Ordinary Women,” which focuses on the individual histories of women in Canada in an attempt to better highlight women who seldom made history. You can find the first post here. Special thanks to Michelle Desveaux, Andrea Eidinger, Anne Marie Lane Jonah, Claire Campbell, and Dean Cain for their help with this post!

The summer before I started my PhD, there was a massive reunion of my grandmother’s side of the family in my hometown of Cheticamp. It’s the type of thing that used to happen on a fairly regular basis when I was a kid, but has started becoming a rare event now that my grandmother’s generation has largely passed. My cousin put together a family tree, dating back to the founding families of Cheticamp, and I didn’t really think much of it until a few years later when I was back in the village for a visit with my sister. One of our ancestors, Jeanne Dugas, was getting a lot of attention that year; a novel had been written about her, the federal government had recognized her as a “Person of Historical Significance”, and one of my dissertation advisors, Dr. Elizabeth Mancke, had recently brought home a sheaf of deportation-era documents from the UK that included Jeanne and her family. While juggling the demands of dissertation and digital history projects, I would sometimes find the time to dig into our Jeanne’s history. Although I had been largely unaware of her prior to that family reunion, other than as one of the names on the list of the “quatorze vieux” who had founded our village, I became more fascinated with her the more I learned about her.

This blog post is a direct development of my growing obsession with Jeanne – her life, her experience of a defining moment in Acadian history, and how an ordinary woman kept her family together through years of constant displacement and war.

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – October 2018

September 21, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

Image featuring six covers from this month's upcoming publications

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

The Hidden Narratives of Clandestine Communities: Digital History and the Religious Minorities of New France

August 21, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 1 Comment

Painting by Henri Motte, Siege of La Rochelle

Cardinal Richelieu in Henri Motte’s “Siege of La Rochelle,” 1881

Note from Stephanie: Hello everyone and welcome to the third and last of our 3-part series, based on a panel presentation given this past spring at the Canadian Historical Association annual conference in Regina, SK! You can read the first paper of the series here, and the second part here. Today’s essay is mine! It feels strange introducing my own essay, so without further ado, please enjoy this short analysis of how the digital humanities helps break away from traditional historiographies and shed light on clandestine communities of New France.

Note from Andrea: Stephanie is too modest! I’m super pleased to have the chance to share some of her great work with you! Enjoy!

French Canadian history has always been locked in a struggle to define its history and separate it from its nationalism. Even when discussing the origins of French settlers in New France, Leslie Choquette had to contend with a nationalist mythology which contradicted her own work:

“Yet for right-wing Frenchmen writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, French Canadians (or those who resisted the gathering exodus to New England, at any rate) embodied the classical values of a less decadent age: travail, famille, patrie, and, last but not least, the Catholic Church. Such writers, in their zeal to reclaim Québec’s virtuous habitants for la France profonde, insisted on the rural and Catholic provenance of the French-Canadian ancestors.[1]”

The history of Huguenots[2] is long and complicated – too complicated to discuss here in any depth. For a long time, many people believed that there were no Huguenots in New France, a viewpoint that is still held by some. This attitude in due in large part to the French government’s active hostility against Huguenots as well as their refusal to allow anyone not of the Catholic faith to settle in New France. While Huguenots were guaranteed certain rights by the Edict of Nantes (1598), by the 1620s, religious civil war broke out again, creating not only bad feeling but also a wave of war refugees. However, research by scholars such as, Marc André Bédard, J.F. Bosher, and Leslie Choquette, has shown that there were small communities of Huguenots scattered across the French colonies of the New World. [3]

Forgotten Carers: How digital methodology illuminates female nursing in 18th century British Naval Hospitals

August 14, 2018 / Stephanie Pettigrew / 0 Comments

Image of the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth

‘Naval Hospital, Haslar, near Portsmouth: view from right. Coloured aquatint with etching by J. Wells, 1799, after J. Hall.’ by J. Revd. Hall. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY

Note from Stephanie: Hello everyone and welcome to the second of our 3-part series, based on a panel presentation given this past spring at the Canadian Historical Association annual conference in Regina, SK! You can read the first paper of the series here. Today’s essay comes to us from Erin Spinney, who will be discussing how the Digital Humanities help tell the stories of nurses who served in eigtheenth-century British naval hospitals. This year’s CHA was the first time I really had an opportunity to learn about Erin’s work, and it is truly fascinating and immersing research. Enjoy!

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, Plymouth Naval Hospital employed over a thousand different women as nurses. Some like Honor Palmer, spent more than fifteen years of their lives, nursing in the service of the state. These women were part of the everyday fabric of the naval institutions and provided crucial medical care, ensured the cleanliness of hospital wards, and helped to enable a healthy healing environment through ventilation. Unfortunately, these women have been largely forgotten in nursing and medical history, or when they do enter into historical narratives, it is often to contrast the ‘superior’ practices of post-Nightingale nursing in the late-nineteenth century. For instance, American nursing leaders Lavinia Dock and Adelaide Nutting described the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century nursing as “the darkest known period in the history of nursing,” when nursing had “sank to an indescribable level of degredation.” (1) This description, intended to bolster the professionalization efforts of the new Nightingale nurses, would continue to frame the historiographical depictions of pre-Nightingale nurses throughout the twentieth century until the present day. (2)

Author: Stephanie Pettigrew (Page 2 of 5)

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – February & March 2019

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – January & February 2019

Historians’ Histories: Heather Green

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – December 2018

Halloween Special II – Charles Havard and the Blasphemed Crucifix

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – October/November 2018

Ordinary Women – Jeanne Dugas of Acadie

Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – October 2018

The Hidden Narratives of Clandestine Communities: Digital History and the Religious Minorities of New France

Forgotten Carers: How digital methodology illuminates female nursing in 18th century British Naval Hospitals

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