Mark Osborne Humphries
Biographic Data
| ID | 4089344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Osborne Humphries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark Osborne |
| FAMILY NAME | Humphries |
| SIGNATURE | HUMPHRIES M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Royal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Working the Short-Haul Fur Trade
Based primarily on an analysis of three cross-linked datasets (voyageur contracts, demographic data, and notarial records), this case study of fur trade employment and the family economy at St-Benoît, Lower Canada, between 1796 and 1821 reveals that while families engaged with the fur trade in different ways, short-haul contracts became an important source of employment in the parish during a period of intensive colonization. These occasional voy…
Family, dynasty, and the construction of legitimacy from Augustus to the Theodosians 1
This chapter explores the consequences of the debate about dynastic legitimacy for imperial successions between the first century and the fifth. It argues that dynastic considerations were central to Roman imperial succession arrangements from the first century to the fifth, with a notable upsurge in late antiquity with the Constantinian and Valentinianic-Theodosian houses. The book examines how, in the first two centuries of the Principate, the …
Haiti in a Globalized Frame
We must confine the plague to the island.—Thomas Jefferson (1804)Despite its long periods of economic and political isolation, Haiti has always been an important global center, and a particularly m
Between Commemoration and History
Paths of Infection
The origin site for the 1918 influenza pandemic which killed more than 50 million people worldwide has been hotly debated. While the mid-western United States, France, and China have all been identified as potential candidates by medical researchers, the military context for the pandemic has been all but ignored. Conversely, military historians have paid little attention to a deadly disease which underlines the reciprocal relationship between bat…
Wilfully and With Intent
À leur départ à la guerre en 1914, les soldats canadiens n’auraient pas pu imaginer les horreurs auxquelles ils allaient être confrontés sur les champs de bataille de France et de Belgique. Nombre d’entre eux ont tenu le coup en buvant, en chantant, en nouant des liens d’amitié; d’autres n’ont pas pu supporter la tension constante. Dans le feu de l’action, certains hommes se sont enfuis, abandonnant leur unité au front. Certains ne sont jamais re…
Le Pianiste
THE PIANISTChristine MontalbettiIt is a grand-hotel type of bar: you picture warm colors, sinking into a red-covered loveseat, chatting under glass-crystal chandeliers whose classicism limply reigns over several halogen lights which, ultra-modern and seemingly sprouting lanky stems from the ground, remind you of slender young poplars. Simon hasn't been in this bar for a long time. The last time, he thinks to himself—things are poorly organized in…
Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace
War's Long Shadow
War is an inherently traumatizing experience, and during the First World War more than 15,000 Canadian soldiers were diagnosed with some form of war-related psychological wounds. Many more went unrecognized. Yet the very act of seeking an escape from the battlefield or applying for a postwar pension for psychological traumas transgressed masculine norms that required men to be aggressive, self-reliant, and un-emotional. Using newly available arch…
A Cruel Wind
The ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 is no longer the forgotten pandemic. Over the last decade, flu studies have appeared with regularity. Research has been multidisciplinary with virologists, epidemiologists, biochemists, geographers, sociologists and historians contributing to a growing body of scholarship. Yet few individual works have truly taken an interdisciplinary approach. The authors of A Cruel Wind aim to present a synthesis of the hard and …
Transatlantic Subjects
Reviewed by: Transatlantic Subjects: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America Mark Osborne Humphries Christie, Nancy (ed.) — Transatlantic Subjects: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. Pp. 477. The era of pure national history may be coming to an end. Historians have traditionally been con…
Rest, Relax and Get Well
Rest, Relax and Get Well
(2008). Rest, Relax and Get Well: A Re-Conceptualisation of Great War Shell Shock Treatment. War & Society: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 89-110
The Roman Countryside
Roman Senators and Absent Emperors in Late Antiquity
It is often assumed that the political fortunes of the city of Rome and of its élite, the Senate, decline in late antiquity. Such decline is attributed to emperors residing in other centers closer to the frontiers and to the inflation of senatorial status in the fourth century. This article argues, however, that the senators of Rome continued to see themselves as important participants in imperial high politics throughout the period. Such ambitio…
In Mommsen's Shade
When it comes to assessing the reputations of the great modern historians of Roman antiquity, Edward Gibbon (1737-94), in the English speaking world at any rate, perhaps counts for more than Theodor Mommsen (1818-1903). Gibbonâ s theme is on a grand scale, articulated in mellifluous prose. Mommsenâ s work cannot compare on either level: the history of the Republic does not evoke the same visceral fascination as the fall of the Empire; and a trans…
Benjamin Isitt, From Victoria to Vladivostok
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Paths of Infection
The origin site for the 1918 influenza pandemic which killed more than 50 million people worldwide has been hotly debated. While the mid-western United States, France, and China have all been identified as potential candidates by medical researchers, the military context for the pandemic has been all but ignored. Conversely, military historians have paid little attention to a deadly disease which underlines the reciprocal relationship between bat…
Wilfully and With Intent
À leur départ à la guerre en 1914, les soldats canadiens n’auraient pas pu imaginer les horreurs auxquelles ils allaient être confrontés sur les champs de bataille de France et de Belgique. Nombre d’entre eux ont tenu le coup en buvant, en chantant, en nouant des liens d’amitié; d’autres n’ont pas pu supporter la tension constante. Dans le feu de l’action, certains hommes se sont enfuis, abandonnant leur unité au front. Certains ne sont jamais re…
Benjamin Isitt, From Victoria to Vladivostok
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
In Mommsen's Shade
When it comes to assessing the reputations of the great modern historians of Roman antiquity, Edward Gibbon (1737-94), in the English speaking world at any rate, perhaps counts for more than Theodor Mommsen (1818-1903). Gibbonâ s theme is on a grand scale, articulated in mellifluous prose. Mommsenâ s work cannot compare on either level: the history of the Republic does not evoke the same visceral fascination as the fall of the Empire; and a trans…
Roman Senators and Absent Emperors in Late Antiquity
It is often assumed that the political fortunes of the city of Rome and of its élite, the Senate, decline in late antiquity. Such decline is attributed to emperors residing in other centers closer to the frontiers and to the inflation of senatorial status in the fourth century. This article argues, however, that the senators of Rome continued to see themselves as important participants in imperial high politics throughout the period. Such ambitio…
The Roman Countryside
Rest, Relax and Get Well
Rest, Relax and Get Well
(2008). Rest, Relax and Get Well: A Re-Conceptualisation of Great War Shell Shock Treatment. War & Society: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 89-110
A Cruel Wind
The ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 is no longer the forgotten pandemic. Over the last decade, flu studies have appeared with regularity. Research has been multidisciplinary with virologists, epidemiologists, biochemists, geographers, sociologists and historians contributing to a growing body of scholarship. Yet few individual works have truly taken an interdisciplinary approach. The authors of A Cruel Wind aim to present a synthesis of the hard and …
Transatlantic Subjects
Reviewed by: Transatlantic Subjects: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America Mark Osborne Humphries Christie, Nancy (ed.) — Transatlantic Subjects: Ideas, Institutions, and Social Experience in Post-Revolutionary British North America. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. Pp. 477. The era of pure national history may be coming to an end. Historians have traditionally been con…
War's Long Shadow
War is an inherently traumatizing experience, and during the First World War more than 15,000 Canadian soldiers were diagnosed with some form of war-related psychological wounds. Many more went unrecognized. Yet the very act of seeking an escape from the battlefield or applying for a postwar pension for psychological traumas transgressed masculine norms that required men to be aggressive, self-reliant, and un-emotional. Using newly available arch…
Intrepid Lover of Perfect Grace
Le Pianiste
THE PIANISTChristine MontalbettiIt is a grand-hotel type of bar: you picture warm colors, sinking into a red-covered loveseat, chatting under glass-crystal chandeliers whose classicism limply reigns over several halogen lights which, ultra-modern and seemingly sprouting lanky stems from the ground, remind you of slender young poplars. Simon hasn't been in this bar for a long time. The last time, he thinks to himself—things are poorly organized in…
Between Commemoration and History
Paths of Infection
The origin site for the 1918 influenza pandemic which killed more than 50 million people worldwide has been hotly debated. While the mid-western United States, France, and China have all been identified as potential candidates by medical researchers, the military context for the pandemic has been all but ignored. Conversely, military historians have paid little attention to a deadly disease which underlines the reciprocal relationship between bat…
Wilfully and With Intent
À leur départ à la guerre en 1914, les soldats canadiens n’auraient pas pu imaginer les horreurs auxquelles ils allaient être confrontés sur les champs de bataille de France et de Belgique. Nombre d’entre eux ont tenu le coup en buvant, en chantant, en nouant des liens d’amitié; d’autres n’ont pas pu supporter la tension constante. Dans le feu de l’action, certains hommes se sont enfuis, abandonnant leur unité au front. Certains ne sont jamais re…
Haiti in a Globalized Frame
We must confine the plague to the island.—Thomas Jefferson (1804)Despite its long periods of economic and political isolation, Haiti has always been an important global center, and a particularly m
Family, dynasty, and the construction of legitimacy from Augustus to the Theodosians 1
This chapter explores the consequences of the debate about dynastic legitimacy for imperial successions between the first century and the fifth. It argues that dynastic considerations were central to Roman imperial succession arrangements from the first century to the fifth, with a notable upsurge in late antiquity with the Constantinian and Valentinianic-Theodosian houses. The book examines how, in the first two centuries of the Principate, the …
Working the Short-Haul Fur Trade
Based primarily on an analysis of three cross-linked datasets (voyageur contracts, demographic data, and notarial records), this case study of fur trade employment and the family economy at St-Benoît, Lower Canada, between 1796 and 1821 reveals that while families engaged with the fur trade in different ways, short-haul contracts became an important source of employment in the parish during a period of intensive colonization. These occasional voy…
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