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Property and Dispossession
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
Before Canada
Long before Confederation created a nation-state in northern North America, Indigenous people were establishing vast networks and trade routes. Volcanic eruptions pushed the ancestors of the Dene to undertake a trek from the present-day Northwest Territories to Arizona. Inuit migrated across the Arctic from Siberia, reaching Southern Labrador, where they met Basque fishers from northern Spain. As early as the fifteenth century, fishing ships from western Europe were coming to Newfoundland for cod, creating the greatest transatlantic maritime link in the early modern world. Later, fur traders would take capitalism across the continent, using cheap rum to lubricate their transactions. The contributors to Before Canada reveal the latest findings of archaeological and historical research on this fascinating period. Along the way, they reframe the story of the Canadian past, extending its limits across time and space and challenging us to reconsider our assumptions about this supposedly young country. Innovative and multidisciplinary, Before Canada inspires interest in the deep history of northern North America.
The Possession of Barbe Hallay
When strange signs appeared in the sky over Québec during the autumn of 1660, people began to worry about evil forces in their midst. They feared that witches and magicians had arrived in the colony, and a teenaged servant named Barbe Hallay started to act as if she were possessed. The community tried to make sense of what was happening, and why. Priests and nuns performed rituals to drive the demons away, while the bishop and the governor argued about how to investigate their suspicions of witchcraft. A local miller named Daniel Vuil, accused of using his knowledge of the dark arts to torment Hallay, was imprisoned and then executed. Stories of the demonic infestation circulated through th...
The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin
From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics. Latin also entered into a complex interplay with the rising vernacular languages. This Handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, contexts, and regions of Neo-Latin, as we have come to call Latin writing composed in the wake of Petrarch (1304-74). Its emphasis is on the period of Neo-Latin's greatest cultural relevance, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Its chapters,...
Florence Adler Swims Forever
Winner of The National Jewish Book Awards Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction.. How far would you go to hide the truth from the ones you love the most? Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to holidaymakers and move into the apartment above the bakery they own. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again after recently losing a baby, is on bedrest, leaving her seven-year-old daughter Gussie in Esther’s care. After Joseph ...
Pas pratiquants, les Québécois ?
Au-delà de la messe, quelles pratiques religieuses pour l’Église d’aujourd’hui ? Depuis plus de quarante ans, s’il y a bien une question qui hante les milieux paroissiaux, surtout en Occident, c’est celle de la pratique religieuse. En effet, depuis au moins les années 1980 environ, les paroisses enregistrent une baisse constante de participants à l’eucharistie dominicale, si bien que les personnes qui se disent croyantes sans pour autant aller à la messe régulièrement sont largement majoritaires aujourd’hui. Les églises sont-elles vouées à se vider pour autant ? Ne -serait-il pas plutôt temps de redéfinir ce que l’on veut dire lorsque l’on parle de pratique reli...
Die Sprachen der Frühen Neuzeit
Die Frühe Neuzeit war in sprachlicher Hinsicht von komplexen, mitunter gegenläufigen Entwicklungen geprägt. Der Hochschätzung der alten Sprachen in Bildung und Gelehrsamkeit stand der Aufstieg der modernen Sprachen gegenüber, die sich in Kanzleien, Korrespondenzen, diplomatischen Beziehungen und schließlich auch in der Wissenschaftskommunikation durchsetzten. Die Verfestigung nationaler Identitäten stand in einem Spannungsverhältnis zur weiten Verbreitung von Multilingualität. Das Erlernen lebender Fremdsprachen war lange kein allgemeines Bildungsziel, wurde jedoch aus standes- und gruppenspezifischen Motiven rege praktiziert. Sprachlicher Prestigewettstreit sowie Bemühungen um sprachliche Vereinheitlichung gingen mit umfangreichen Übersetzungsleistungen einher. Als Ergebnis der 14. Arbeitstagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Frühe Neuzeit im Verband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands präsentiert der Band aktuelle Forschungen zu Sprachgebrauch, Sprachwandel und Mehrsprachigkeit vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert.
Musique et dévotion dans la mission jésuite du Canada.
Le petit motet, genre unique de la musique religieuse latine, s’est inscrit dans la mission jésuite canadienne du XVIIe siècle. Il fut le lieu de l’expression musicale des missionnaires et des Abénaquis de la Nouvelle-France.
Ebony
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Growing Up in a Land Called Egypt
In Growing Up in a Land Called Egypt: A Southern Illinois Family Biography,author Cleo Caraway fondly recalls how she and her siblings came of age on the family farm in the 1930s and 1940s. Like many others, the Caraways were affected by the economic hardships of the Great Depression, but Cleo’s parents strived to shelter her and her six siblings from the dire circumstances affecting the nation and their home and allowed them to bask in their idealistic existence. Her love for her family clearly shines from every page as she writes of a simpler time, before World War II divided the family. Caraway revels in the life her family lived on a southern Illinois hilltop in Murphysboro township, m...
