Dr. T. Webb
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (York)
Office: A-206
Dr Webb teaches at the Laurentian at Georgian Program in Barrie.
Laurentian@Georgian (UPC). Georgian College, One Georgian Drive,Barrie, ON L4M 3X9
Voice Mail: (705) 728-1968 ext. 6024
Email: rwebb@laurentian.ca / twebb@georgianc.on.ca
Courses Taught:
HIST 1206EL-01 – Western Civilization: Renaissance to the French Revolution
HIST 2256EL-01 – History of Revolutions
HIST 2406EL-01 – Early Modern British History
HIST 2426EL-01 – Modern British History I: 1700 to 1850
HIST 3036EL-01 – The City in History
HIST 3126EL-01 – A History of French Canada
HIST 3266EL-01 – The Canadian West
HIST 3576EL-01 – The Americas in the Colonial Era
HIST 4016EL-01 – Directed Reading I: British North America in the Age of Revolution
HIST 4017EL-01 – Directed Reading II: Rebellion and Reform in the Canadas
HIST 4245EL-01 – Canadian Intellectual Traditions
HIST 4305EL-01 – Revolution and Reform in British North America
HIST 4325EL-01 – Colonial America and the Pacific
HIST 4496EL-01 – Modern Britain I: The Rise and Fall of Liberal England
HIST 4497EL-01 – Modern Britain II: Britain and the First World War
Messianic resistance movements to colonial expansion in the late-nineteenth century
Chapters in Books:
• “‘Only Pemmican Eaters’: The Formation of Métis Identities in the Atlantic World, 1869-85,” in Kristin Burnett and Geoff Read, eds., Indigenous History Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011), with Geoff Read
• “How the Canadian Methodists became British: Unity, Schism and Transatlantic Identity, 1827-1854,” in Nancy Christie, ed., Transatlantic Subjects: Identities, Institutions, and Social Practices in British North America, 1780-1860 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008), 159-98
Articles in Refereed Journals:
• “‘The Catholic Mahdi of the North West’: Louis Riel and the Métis Resistance in Transatlantic and Imperial Context,” Canadian Historical Review (under review), with Geoff Read
• “Making Neo-Britons: The Transatlantic relationship between Wesleyan Methodists in Britain and the Canadas, 1815-1828,” British Journal of Canadian Studies 18, no. 1 (2005), 1-25.
Articles in Conference Proceedings:
• “Faiths of ’37: Methodism and Anti-Catholicism in Rebellion-Era Canada,” Historical Papers 2009, Canadian Society of Church History (forthcoming 2010)
• “The Destruction of Robert Alder: An Example of Transatlantic Culture and Anarchy among the Methodists,” Historical Papers 2007, Canadian Society of Church History, 43-59
Other Publications:
Two entries in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History (New York: MTM Publishing, forthcoming 2010):
• “Burr, Aaron (1756-1836)”
• “Whiskey Rebellion”
Three entries in The World History Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming 2010):
• “Christian Missions in New Zealand and Australia”
• “Congregationalism in Colonial New England”
• “Self-Government in Pre-Dominion Canada: The Durham Report”
Two entries in The International Encyclopedia of World Protest and Revolution: 1500 to the Present (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2009):
• “Combination Laws and revolutionary trade unionism”: 818-20
• “Smith, Adam (1723-1790)”: 3053-5
Book Reviews:
• Review of Robynne Rogers Healey, From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community among Yonge Street Friends, 1801-1850 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2006), University of Toronto Quarterly 78, no. 1 (Winter 2009), 281-3
• Review of J.R. Kerr-Ritchie, Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), Canadian Journal of History 43, no. 2 (Autumn 2008), 376-377
• Review of J.H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), H-Canada, H-Net Reviews
• Review of David Hempton, Methodism: Empire of the Spirit (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), Social History / Histoire Sociale 39, no. 78 (2006),543-545
• Review of J.G.A. Pocock, The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), Canadian Journal of History 41, no. 3 (Winter 2006), 623-5
• Review of David Rogers and John McLeod, eds., The Revision of Englishness (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), Left History, 11, no. 1 (Spring 2006), 144-6
• Review of James Holstun, Ehud’s Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution (London: Verso, 2000), Left History, 9, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2004), 229-32