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Mills, David

Dr.  David Mills

(Associate Professor)

Ph.D., Carleton University (1982)  
M.A., Carleton University (1975) 
B.A., Brock University (1973) 

2-76 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-0608

david.mills@ualberta.ca

Expertise & Research Interests 

Canadian History:
Social and Intellectual History
Popular Culture, especially Sports History



Teaching

 

HIST 260 - Introduction to the Study of Canadian History, 1500-1867

HIST 261 - Introduction to the Study of Canadian History, 1867-present

HIST 370 - Social & Intellectual History of English Canada since 1760

HIST 377 - A History of Canada since 1945

HIST 470 - Topics in Canadian Social History: Modern Canada History of Sport in North America

HIST 472 - Topics in the History of Pre-Confederation Canada

HIST 666 - Topics in the History of British North America

HIST 676 - Topics in Canadian Social History

Academic History

1987 - present  Department of History & Classics, Associate Professor

1982 - 1987      Department of History,  Assistant Professor

1980 - 1982      Department of History,  Sessional Lecturer

 

Publications


Books Written:

 

The Idea of Loyalty in Upper Canada , 1784-1850.  Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press (1988).

                  

Refereed Articles:

 

with J. Keshen, “‘ Ich bereite mich auf den Tag, da es zu Ende geht!’: Briefwechsel von Kanadierinnen und Kanadiern im Krieg”, in D. Vogel & W. Wette, eds.  Andere Helme - andere Menschen?  (Essen: Klartext Verlag, 1995), 257-282.   ["'I Am Praying for the Day It Ends': The Wartime Correspondence of Canadians"]

                  

“The Visible Hand in the City of Champions: Peter Pocklington and the Business of Hockey”, in R. Hesketh & F. Swyripa, eds.  Edmonton: The Life of a City. (Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1995), 306-315.

 

“The Visible Hand and the Management of Hockey”, in K. Wamsley, ed.  Method and Methodology in Sport and Cultural History.  Dubuque: A Times Mirror Higher Education Group, 1995), 244-280. 

 

"Ontario" in D. Owram, ed., A Reader's Guide to Canadian History, vol. 2: Confederation to the Present, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), 296-340.

 

“The Blue Line and the Bottom Line: Entrepreneurs and the Business of Hockey in

Canada , 1927-1989", in J.A. Mangan & P. Staudohar, eds., The Business of Professional Sports.  (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 175-201.

 

“The Battle of Alberta: Entrepreneurs and the Business of Hockey in Edmonton and Calgary ”, in Alberta (1990), 1-26

 

Reprints:

 

“The Blue Line and the Bottom Line: Entrepreneurs and the Business of Hockey in Canada, 1927-1995" (a revised and updated version for The Centre for Research into Sport and Society, University of Leicester, Leicester, U.K.)