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Item Open Access A Female Doctor (Medica) at Augusta Emerita (Mérida)? Re-examining CIL II 497 from Humanist Readings to the Latest Digital Epigraphy Techniques(UPV/EHU Press, 2022-02-21) Edmondson, Jonathan CharlesThis paper provides a critical re-examination of a funerary altar (CIL II 497) from Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain). It explores the strengths and weaknesses of all previous editions of the text from its first publication in 1633 to the present day, providing a critical review of the development of epigraphic scholarship on Mérida during this long period. Given the problems of all previous editions, including CIL II 497, it then re-examines the altar using traditional epigraphic methods alongside the latest digital techniques (especially Morphological Residual Modelling, M.R.M.) to provide a new edition of the text, while setting the presence of a female doctor at the provincial capital of Lusitania into the broader social context of medical practitioners in Rome’s western provinces.Item Open Access Another soldier in the territory of valeria(2020-01-01) Edmondson, J.; Pascual, H. G.The article presents the editio princeps of a fragmentary inscription from the territory of the municipium of Valeria. A single block is preserved of a monumental epitaph that was built into a mausoleum, which commemorates a deceased soldier who had won military decorations including two or more torques during his military service in the first decades of the first century A.D.Item Open Access Ascensão e queda do pacto populista em Cuba, 1934-1959(Tempo, 2012-07) McGillivray, GillianO regime que pôs fim aos “100 dias de reforma” em Cuba é rotulado com frequência como “contrarrevolução” quando, na verdade, a expressão mais apropriada seria a de “populismo autoritário”. O novo regime não reverteu a Revolução de 1933; muito pelo contrário, suas lideranças valeram-se da violência combinada com reformas revolucionárias como forma de incorporar, de maneira compulsória, um número cada vez maior de pessoas em um novo e ampliado sistema estatal de liderança. Fulgencio Batista recebeu o apoio de parte da classe trabalhadora ao longo do período democrático que vigorou durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas o anticomunismo da Guerra Fria desestabilizou seu regime, esvaziando o populismo cubano de grande parte da sua substância.Item Open Access Dellius, the Parthian Campaign, and the Image of Mark Antony(Editions Latomus, 2008) Kelly, BenjaminItem Open Access Item Open Access Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827(Michigan State University Press, 1998) Podruchny, CarolynItem Open Access From Blue to Black Marble: Visualizing Light Pollution in the Anthropocene(2017-03-20) Pritchard, SaraThe Department of History at York University hosted the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History on March 20 at 4pm in the Schulich Private Dining Room. The lecture was delivered by Professor Sara B. Pritchard from Cornell University. Professor Pritchard is a leading scholar in environmental history and science and technology studies whose new research examines the politics of light pollution and light-pollution science. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Scholars’ Award in Science, Technology and Society. Professor Pritchard’s lecture examined the growing concerns of scientists in the early 1970s about light pollution for its astronomical, ecological and human health effects. These kinds of concerns have increased dramatically over the past decade. This talk will examine how the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) visualize artificial light at night, an emergent environmental problem. A close reading of several influential images shows how these institutions produce knowledge about light pollution. In particular, this lecture explored how NASA and NPS’s regimes of (im)perceptibility shape what we know—and do not know—about artificial light at night in distinct ways. At the same time, it considered the implications of these knowledge-making and visualization techniques for global social justice in the early 21st century.Item Open Access A Geography of Blood: Uncovering the Hidden Histories of Metis People in Canada(Waxmann, 2016) Podruchny, Carolyn; Thistle, Jesse A.Item Open Access Glass Curtains and Storied Landscapes: The Fur Trade, National Boundaries, and Historians(Duke University Press, 2010) Podruchny, Carolyn; Saler, BethelItem Open Access The Great Epizootic of 1872–73: Networks of Animal Disease in North American Urban Environments(Environmental History, Oxford University Press, 2018-07) Kheraj, SeanThis article examines the outbreak of an unknown illness (later thought to be equine influenza) among the horses of Toronto and its subsequent spread as a continent-wide panzootic. Known as the Great Epizootic, the illness infected horses in nearly every major urban center in Canada and the United States over a 50-week period beginning in late September 1872. The Great Epizootic not only illustrated the centrality of horses to the functioning of nineteenth-century North American cities, but it also demonstrated that these cities generated ecological conditions and a networked disease pool capable of supporting the rapid spread of animal disease on a continental scale in localities from widely divergent geographies. This article invites environmental historians to broaden their view of cities to consider the ways in which networked urbanization produced forms of historical biotic homogenization that could result in the rapid and widespread outbreak of disease.Item Open Access ‘I have embraced the White man's religion’: Relations between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society in the Red River Valley, 1820-1838(Algonquian Conference, 1995) Podruchny, CarolynItem Open Access Improving Nature: Remaking Stanley Park’s Forest, 1888-1931(BC Studies, 2008) Kheraj, SeanThis article examines forest policy for Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1888-1931. The author argues that Park Board's forest policy developed with the objective of eliminating or disguising evidence of natural and anthropogenic environmental change, a landscape technique known as facade management. This policy was shaped in large part by a series of insect infestations and the recommendations of federal entomologists from the 1910s to the 1930s.Item Open Access Introduction: Cultural Mobility and the Contours of Difference(University of Oklahoma Press, 2012) Macdougall, Brenda; Podruchny, Carolyn; St-Onge, NicoleItem Open Access Jean De Brébeuf and the Wendat Voices of Seventeenth-Century New France(University of Toronto, Victoria University, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2011) Podruchny, Carolyn; Labelle, KathrynItem Open Access Le grand voyage de la tortue qui désirait voler. Motifs oraux, échanges culturels et histoires transfrontalières dans la traite des fourrures(Canadian Historical Association, 2017) Podruchny, CarolynItem Open Access The Lone Trickster? Exploring Individualism in Anishinaabe and Omushkego Oral Traditions in Early Canadian Indigenous History(Boise State University, Department of Anthropology / University of Lapland, Arctic Centre, 2012) Podruchny, CarolynItem Open Access Map of the Great Epizootic, 1872-1873 (ArcGIS)(2017-03-13) Kheraj, SeanOver the course of 50 weeks, an outbreak of what was believed to be equine influenza spread from Toronto to nearly every major city in Canada and the United States, infecting an enormous population of urban horses. The disease also infected horses in Mexico and other parts of Latin America. Nineteenth-century cities in Canada and the US were filled with horses. Equine labour provided the power for intra-urban transportation and shipping. They pulled streetcars, delivered goods, and even powered machinery. In 1872-73, cities in Canada and the US were connected by an expanding network of railways. The Grand Trunk spanned the most populous provinces of Canada and the Union Pacific recently connected the Atlantic and Pacific urban centres of the US. Railways sped the Great Epizootic across the continent, linking the bodies of horses in Toronto to nearly every city in Canada and the US. This is a map of the spread of the 1872-73 Great Epizootic. It also displays the approximate railway networks in Canada and the US. Each point on the map documents when the disease was first reported to have arrived in that city. Click on the points for details and source information about the arrival of the disease in each city. Use the timeline at the bottom to see how the epizootic spread over time week-by-week.Item Open Access Nature's Past Episode 001: The Environmental History of the Don River(Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2008-12-10) Kheraj, SeanOn this pilot episode of the show, we introduce listeners to the study environmental history by speaking with Jennifer Bonnell, a graduate student at the University of Toronto who is researching the history of Toronto’s Don River. Jennifer’s research spans the long history of the Don River and its place in the social and environmental history of the city. From nineteenth-century grist mills to Depression-era hobo jungles to Hurricane Hazel in 1954, we find out more about this river valley on Toronto’s eastside. Also, we speak with Adam Crymble, the website administrator for the Network in Canadian History & Environment, about web resources for environmental history at niche-canada.org.Item Open Access Painted Tonsures and Potato-sellers: Priests, Passing and Survival in the Asturian Revolution(Taylor and Francis, 2017-02-21) Kerry, MatthewThe Asturian revolutionary insurrection of 1934 saw the greatest outburst of anticlerical bloodletting in Spain for a century and prefigured the dramatic wave of anticlerical violence during the Spanish Civil War. Scholars have neglected, however, to study the experience of clerical survival. This article analyses how members of the clergy survived the insurrection through the prism of passing, concentrating on cleric's dress, gestures and revolutionary performances. It demonstrates the need to study survival processes, sheds new light on clerical identity, agency and existing cultural gulfs in 1930s' Spain, and underlines the contingency of violence in revolutionary contexts.Item Open Access Petitions with Requests for Registration from Roman Egypt(Journal of Juristic Papyrology, 2016-07) Kelly, Benjamin