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John A. Sainsbury
Department of History

Office: MC C416
Tel.: (905) 688-5550 ext.3973
Internet: jsainsbu@spartan.ac.brocku.ca
SSHRC General Research Grants
- ($1,500.00) Credit, anxiety and morality in 18th century England - Career of John Wilkes.
- ($14,689.00) Research on John Wilkes. 1993-1996.
SSHRC Travel Grants to International Scholarly Conferences
- ($814.00) Travel to London. June 1994.
Other Publications
- "Empire, Conflict, and the Shaping of American Identities", Canadian
Review of American Studies, October 1993 (refereed review article, 3000
words).
Reviews
- Tyrant: The story of John Barber 1675-1741, C. Rivington, London Journal, Volume 16, No. 2, 1991, p. 95.
- British Foreign Policy in the Age of the American Revolution, H.M. Scott, Choice, July 1991, p. 515.
- British Politics and the American Revolution, Keith Perry, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 20, 1992, p. 134.
- The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, P. Linebaugh, Canadian Journal of History (xxvii, 1992), p. 549 - 551.
- Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773 - 1776, P.D.G. Thomas, William and Mary Quarterly (3rd Series, Vol. 49, 1992), p. 554 - 556.
- Fierce Communion: Family and Community in Early America, H.M. Wall, Canadian Review of American Studies, Harvard University Press 1990, March 1993,
p. 78.
- Radical Culture: discourse, resistance and surveillance, 1790 - 1820, David Worrall, Choice, May 1993, p. 551.
- London in the l890's: a cultural history, K. Beckson, Choice, October 1993.
Paper Presentations
- "John Wilkes: The Debtor as Hero," Conference of New York Association of European Historians, SUNY/Albany, September 1991.
- "London in the Age of the American Revolution," University of Toronto, Later Life Learning, November 1992.
- "Wilkes, Sex, and Liberty," Conference of the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, June 1993.
- "John Wilkes and the "Essay on Woman": Libertinism as a Serious Enterprise," Mid-West Conference of the American Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Marquette University, Milwaukee, October 1993.