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Wetland Reclamation in England: Medieval Risk Culture and the 1396 Commission of Sewers for Pevensey Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)This paper examines wetland reclamation in England between the eighth and sixteenth centuries, with a special focus on the Pevensey Levels during the fourteenth century. Coastal marsh communities had access to significant ... -
White Paper: Measuring Research Outputs Through Bibliometrics
(University of Waterloo, 2016)This White Paper provides a high-level review of issues relevant to understanding bibliometrics, and practical recommendations for how to appropriately use these measures. This is not a policy paper; instead, it defines ... -
A Window into October: Examining the Framing of the October Crisis of 1970 in Canada's English-Language Newspapers
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-02)Much of the historiography on the October Crisis has centred around whether the War Measures Act (WMA) represented a necessary deployment of available legislation to crush a threat to national order and security, or an ... -
With Them And Against Them: Canada's Relations With Nicaragua, 1979-1990
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)Canada's relations with Nicaragua changed greatly during the 1980s after the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) came to power in a revolution which overthrew the Somoza dynasty. For the first few years of the ... -
Writing the Historian's Macroscope in Public
(American Historical Association, 2014-10)Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope - A short book summary by the authors exploring their own rationale, and the historical context for the book's themes, including descriptions of the collaborative ... -
“Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy”: Visions, Apocalypticism, and Gender in Strasbourg, 1522-1539
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-05)This study examines the life and work of Lienhard and Ursula Jost, two peasant religious visionaries active in Strasbourg between 1522 and 1539, in the midst of the religious turmoil of the early Reformation. The Josts ...