Category: History

The Normality of Peace

Melko, Matthew. Peace Research 28, no. 2 (1996): 49–54. In this article, Melko engages with the statement ‘peace is normal, war is exceptional’ in an attempt to prove that even during historical periods of high…

A Really Good Brown Girl

Dumont, Marilyn. Canada: Brick Books, 1996. Marilyn Dumont’s poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, reads as a journey from internalised shame to pride in Métis identity. The coming-of-age text, a combination of…

The generation of communal identities

Nissan, Elizabeth and Stirrat, R.L. In Sri Lanka: History and the roots of conflict, edited by Jonathan Spencer, 19-44. London:Routledge, 1990. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203407417. This book chapter, written by…