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The Invisible Irish, Finding Protestants in the Nineteenth-Century Migrations to America, by Rankin Sherling, was reviewed this past weekend by Scotland’s national newspaper, The Scotsman.
The review, which was written by author and professor Dean Jobb, discusses the link between the clergy and the mass Irish Protestant migration in the 19th century. The following … Read More >
In the upcoming issue of Catholic Historical Review, Lesley Milner takes a look at The Cistercian Arts, From the 12th to the 21st Century edited by Terryl N. Kinder and Roberto Cassanelli. Below is an excerpt from the review as well as a link to some of the wonderful images found in this title.
The Cistercian Arts is a … Read More >
Seeking our Eden: The Dreams and Migrations of Sarah Jameson Craig by Joanne Findon, was recently reviewed by Linda Kealey on Acadiensis. The Acadiensis blog is an essential source for reading and research on the history of Atlantic Canada.
The following is an excerpt from the review:
Seeking Our Eden provides an engrossing account of a 19th-century … Read More >
Quill & Quire recently reviewed our newly released book Making out in the Mainstream, GLAAD and the Politics of Respectability by Vincent Doyle.
The following is an excerpt from the review:
There are few groups so prominent in the LGBT mainstream as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. In this historical and ethnographic study … Read More >
Sean Mill’s latest book, A Place in the Sun, which was officially launched just last week here in Montreal, was also recently reviewed by the Montreal Gazette. The following is an excerpt from Ian McGillis’ piece “A Place in the Sun traces the Haitian face of Quebec”.
Understanding history is more than just … Read More >
BEYOND BRUTAL PASSIONS: PROSTITUTION IN EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY MONTREAL by Mary Anne Poutanen, was recently reviewed on Christopher Moore’s History News. The following is an excerpt from history Professor Elsbeth Heaman’s piece Book Notes: Heaman on Poutanen on Montreal Prostitution
That tension between ideal and real women is fully on display in Mary Anne … Read More >
ANTHEMS AND MINSTREL SHOWS, Brian C. Thompson’s biography of Calixa Lavallée, the composer of “O Canada,” was reviewed in The Montreal Gazette this past weekend. The following is an excerpt from Ian McGillis’ piece, O really? The little-known origins of O Canada.
One summer, without having planned it, I spent late June … Read More >
Monda Halpern’s Alice in Shandehland was reviewed in the Ottawa Citizen this past weekend. The following is an excerpt from Bernie Farber’s review.
Halpern spent years tracking down a story that no one wanted to talk about. Pouring over newspaper accounts of the sensational three day trial, interviewing surviving family members — many reluctant to … Read More >
Kenneth C. Dewar’s latest biography of Frank Underhill and the Politics of Ideas is reviewed in this month’s issue of the Literary Review of Canada:
“This is a valuable book, both for what it says about Underhill’s ideas and their development, and for what it reveals about the context in which they developed. An important part … Read More >
In the upcoming BC Studies issue, Natasha Lyons looks at Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, by Nancy J. Turner.
“Nancy Turner’s new work Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge is undoubtedly her magnum opus. It is a thing of great scope, beauty, eloquence, and cohesion. Yet perhaps its greatest attribute, like all of Turner’s work, is … Read More >