Kurt Korneski
Biographic Data
| ID | 959325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kurt Korneski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kurt |
| FAMILY NAME | Korneski |
| SIGNATURE | KORNESKI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Separated from mainland Nova Scotia by the Strait of Canso, Cape Breton is a small, rugged island. Among the most eastern points of North America, it straddles the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean. Home to Indigenous peoples from time immemorial, it has been a site of sustained European activity since the late fifteenth century. An early base for migrants engaged in a multijurisdictional migratory fishery, the island may have been name…
Strong Winds and Widow Makers
Following several decades of intermittent wars of conquest against Indigenous peoples and war and negotiation with rival European claimants, the American government asserted sovereignty over western parts of North America around the middle of the nineteenth century. Such assertions became concrete mainly through possession and occupation. In Strong Winds and Widow Makers, Steven Beda explores aspects of the history of occupancy and industry in on…
One Job Town
Book Review| March 01 2021 One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario by Steven High One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario, High, Steven, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, 378 pp., $90.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper); $41.95 (ebook) Kurt Korneski Kurt Korneski Memorial University of Newfoundland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2021) 18 (1): 115–117. https://doi.…
Cosmopolitan Engagements
Focusing on the vessels exploiting the fisheries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the first half of the nineteenth century, this chapter argues that while these waters were nominally under the control of the British Empire substantial concessions to the French and competition from American interests resulted in a much greater mobility of labour than is remembered. While colonial, imperial, and international interests worked to resolve disputes at t…
The Constant Liberal
Rainy Lake House
"Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(5), p. 117
Making the Empire Work
The United States is a colonial construct. It is a settler state that, like other similar states in North America and elsewhere on the planet, is predicated on the dispossession of a large and diverse population of indigenous people, often through violence and sometimes genocidal policies. In the case of the United States, the nation and its wealth are also predicated on the transportation of human chattel across imperial networks. Establishing s…
Conflicted Colony
Nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an archetypal borderland - a space where changes in the authority of imperial, national, and indigenous territorial claims shaped the opportunities and identities of a socially diverse population. Conflicted Colony elucidates processes of state formation in Newfoundland through a reassessment of key moments in the country's history. Kurt Korneski closely examines five conflicts from the late nineteenth century …
Planters, Eskimos, and Indians
Focusing on the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) 1830–50, this paper examines the unsettling and reconstitution of racial categories in Labrador. It argues that in Labrador these categories reflected the particular class-based logic that emerged as the company sought to assert itself in this region in the face of resistance to encroachment. In particular, in this setting, social categories were tied to access to the distribution of credi…
Development and Diplomacy
The matter of French claims in Newfoundland probably caused more acrimony and outcry among the professionals and businessmen who dominated the Newfoundland legislature in the later nineteenth century than any other single issue. Most historians of the ‘French Shore problem’ have followed Fred Thompson's lead in analysing the history of the French shore by focusing on high-ranking diplomats and the colonial elite. They have also tended to view the…
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Prairie Fire
Anyone familiar with the debates among historians about how best to interpret the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 will find themselves disappointed with the account of the strike given in Prairie Fire. The film is modeled on an interpretive framework that has come to be termed western exceptionalism. With little regard for challenges to that framework, the collaborative efforts of historians and film production staff have resulted in an account o…
Prairie Fire
Anyone familiar with the debates among historians about how best to interpret the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 will find themselves disappointed with the account of the strike given in Prairie Fire. The film is modeled on an interpretive framework that has come to be termed western exceptionalism. With little regard for challenges to that framework, the collaborative efforts of historians and film production staff have resulted in an account o…
Prairie Fire
Anyone familiar with the debates among historians about how best to interpret the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 will find themselves disappointed with the account of the strike given in Prairie Fire. The film is modeled on an interpretive framework that has come to be termed western exceptionalism. With little regard for challenges to that framework, the collaborative efforts of historians and film production staff have resulted in an account o…
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Development and Diplomacy
The matter of French claims in Newfoundland probably caused more acrimony and outcry among the professionals and businessmen who dominated the Newfoundland legislature in the later nineteenth century than any other single issue. Most historians of the ‘French Shore problem’ have followed Fred Thompson's lead in analysing the history of the French shore by focusing on high-ranking diplomats and the colonial elite. They have also tended to view the…
Making the Empire Work
The United States is a colonial construct. It is a settler state that, like other similar states in North America and elsewhere on the planet, is predicated on the dispossession of a large and diverse population of indigenous people, often through violence and sometimes genocidal policies. In the case of the United States, the nation and its wealth are also predicated on the transportation of human chattel across imperial networks. Establishing s…
Conflicted Colony
Nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an archetypal borderland - a space where changes in the authority of imperial, national, and indigenous territorial claims shaped the opportunities and identities of a socially diverse population. Conflicted Colony elucidates processes of state formation in Newfoundland through a reassessment of key moments in the country's history. Kurt Korneski closely examines five conflicts from the late nineteenth century …
Planters, Eskimos, and Indians
Focusing on the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) 1830–50, this paper examines the unsettling and reconstitution of racial categories in Labrador. It argues that in Labrador these categories reflected the particular class-based logic that emerged as the company sought to assert itself in this region in the face of resistance to encroachment. In particular, in this setting, social categories were tied to access to the distribution of credi…
Rainy Lake House
"Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(5), p. 117
The Constant Liberal
Cosmopolitan Engagements
Focusing on the vessels exploiting the fisheries of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the first half of the nineteenth century, this chapter argues that while these waters were nominally under the control of the British Empire substantial concessions to the French and competition from American interests resulted in a much greater mobility of labour than is remembered. While colonial, imperial, and international interests worked to resolve disputes at t…
One Job Town
Book Review| March 01 2021 One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario by Steven High One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario, High, Steven, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018, 378 pp., $90.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper); $41.95 (ebook) Kurt Korneski Kurt Korneski Memorial University of Newfoundland Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2021) 18 (1): 115–117. https://doi.…
Strong Winds and Widow Makers
Following several decades of intermittent wars of conquest against Indigenous peoples and war and negotiation with rival European claimants, the American government asserted sovereignty over western parts of North America around the middle of the nineteenth century. Such assertions became concrete mainly through possession and occupation. In Strong Winds and Widow Makers, Steven Beda explores aspects of the history of occupancy and industry in on…
Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Separated from mainland Nova Scotia by the Strait of Canso, Cape Breton is a small, rugged island. Among the most eastern points of North America, it straddles the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean. Home to Indigenous peoples from time immemorial, it has been a site of sustained European activity since the late fifteenth century. An early base for migrants engaged in a multijurisdictional migratory fishery, the island may have been name…
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