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  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 29 No. 1, 2018

    Series Book 29 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The educational histories of mid-nineteenth century British-Métis students illuminate the transnational travels of British-Métis students and their roles in reifying and challenging British-imperial norms about race, class, and gender in the British Empire. In this paper, photographic and object-based artifacts are interwoven with family correspondence and other archival documents to explore the ... Read more

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  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 26 No. 2, 2015

    Series Book 26 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The winner of the 2014 Ferguson Prize was Mark Phillips’ On Historical Distance, a work that sets itself the task of examining what historians usually take for granted: historical distance, conventionally conceived, in Phillips’ words, as “a position of detached observation made possible by the passage of time.” Phillips reimagines historical distance as enacted in multiple dimensions of ... Read more

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