Bannister, Jerry - Department of History

Jerry Bannister

Graduate Coordinator

Associate Professor

Office:	3170 McCain Arts & Social Science Building
Office Hours:	Fridays: 1:00-3:00 Or by appointment
Email:	jerry.bannister@dal.ca
Tel:	902-494-1541 (v) 902-494-3349 (fax)

AREAS OF INTEREST

British North America; the Atlantic region; socio-political history; legal history, particularly crime and criminal law; nationalism and regional identities; naval and maritime history; and twentieth-century world history.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom, and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

WINNER, 2004 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize

William R. Keylor and Jerry Bannister, The Twentieth-Century World: An International History. Canadian Edition.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005.

"Canada as Counter-Revolution: The Loyalist Order Framework in Canadian History, 1750-1840," in Jean-François Constant and Michel Ducharme, eds., Liberalism and Hegemony: Debating the Canadian Liberal Revolution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009).

"Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," in Christopher English, ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IX – Two Islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2005).

"Law and Labor in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," in Douglas Hay and Paul Craven, eds., Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).

"The Politics of Cultural Memory: Themes in the History of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, 1972-2003," in Collected Research Papers of the Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening our Place in Canada (St. John’s: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2003). Available on-line as a PDF file: www.gov.nf.ca/royalcomm/research/pdf/Bannister.pdf

"The Campaign for Representative Government in Newfoundland," in Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel, eds., Canadian History Reader, Volume One (Toronto: Pearson Education, 2003). Available on-line as a PDF file: www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/1994/v5/n1/031071ar.pdf

"Whigs and Nationalists: The Legacy of Judge Prowse’s History of Newfoundland," Acadiensis 32, 1 (Autumn 2002).

"Making History: Cultural Memory in Twentieth-Century Newfoundland," Newfoundland Studies 18, 2 (Fall 2002). Available on-line as a PDF file:
http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/879/1232

"The Fishing Admirals in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," Newfoundland Studies, Special Issue: Peter Pope, ed., "The New Early Newfoundland: The Eighteenth Century," 17, 2 (Fall 2001). Available on-line as a PDF file:
http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/856/1209

"The Naval State in Newfoundland, 1749-1791," Journal of the Canadian Historical Association New Series 11 (2000).   Available on-line as a PDF file: http://www.erudit.org/revue/jcha/2000/v11/n1/031130ar.pdf