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The 1866 Fenian Raid on Canada West
(2009-09-24)This thesis examines Canada West’s colonial perceptions and reactions towards the Fenian Brotherhood in the Confederation era. Its focus is on the impact of the Fenians on the contemporary public mind, beginning in the ... -
After October: Russian Liberalism as a 'Work in Progress,' 1919-1945
(2015-10-01)This thesis is an examination of Russian liberal thought, its durability, and its tensions in exile in interwar France. Through analysis of archival documents and contemporary pamphlets, memoranda, and print media, this ... -
Alberta's Red Democrats: The Challenge and Legacy of Blairmore Communism, 1921-1936
(2013-08-29)On Valentine’s Day, 1933 the citizens of Blairmore, Alberta elected a Communist town council and school board. “Alberta’s Red Democrats: the Challenges and Legacy of Blairmore Communism, 1921-1936” seeks not only to ... -
'An Ancillary Weapon’: Cultural Diplomacy and Nation-building in Cold War Canada, 1945-1967
(2015-10-15)This dissertation is a study of Canada’s cultural approaches toward the Communist world – particularly in the performing arts – and the ways in which the public and private sectors sought to develop Canada’s identity during ... -
The Annapolis Riddle: Advocacy, Ship Design and the Canadian Navy's Force Structure Crisis, 1957-1965.
(2013-09-20)The General Purpose Frigate was the centrepiece of the Royal Canadian Navy’s fleet planning for over three years, and its cancellation by the newly elected Liberal government in October 1963 set off a divisive and chaotic ... -
“Apocalypse at the Doll Counter” Barbie, Marjie, and the North American Toy Industry, 1959-67
Positioned at the intersection of business, social, and cultural history, this thesis, “Apocalypse at the Doll Counter”: Barbie, Marjie, and the North American Toy Industry, 1959-67, uses a case study of the parallel and ... -
Beyond “the Desert and the Sown”: Peasants, Pastoralists, and Climate Crises in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1840-1890
(2016-02-05)This dissertation refocuses attention from a ‘clash of cultures’ to a ‘clash of environmental economies’ within the eastern regions of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, particularly the province of Diyarbekir. An ... -
‘Black Settlers’: Hybridity, Neoliberalism and Ecosystemic Change Among Tonga Farmers of Southern Zambia, 1964-2008
(2016-10-06)This dissertation examines a process of indigenous accumulation among Tonga farmers in Zambia’s Southern Province. In the 1970s multiple authors concluded that capitalist farmers had emerged among Tonga agro-pastoralists, ... -
By the Road: Fordism, Automobility, and Landscape Experience in the British Columbia Interior, 1920-1970
(2012-12-13)This dissertation examines how popular experiences of nature and history in the British Columbia Interior were structured by automobility – the system of objects, spaces, images, and practices that surrounded private ... -
Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
(2011-05-30)This dissertation examines the histories of Indigenous protest, commonly known as “Red Power,” in the 1960s and 1970s in the town of Kenora, Ontario. Among the themes discussed are the associations of Indian and Métis ... -
Canada, the United States and the Command and Control of Air Forces for Continental Air Defence from Ogdensburg to NORAD, 1940-1957
(2009-12-14)This dissertation examines the evolution of the bilateral Canadian-American continental air defence operational-level command and control relationship from the 1940 Ogdensburg Agreement to the establishment of the North ... -
The Canadian Soldier: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945
(2014-06-26)This thesis is a study of the combat motivation and morale of infantrymen in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Using battle experience questionnaires, censorship reports, statistical analyses, operational ... -
Canadians Against Fire: Canada's Soldiers and Marshall's "Ratio of Fire" 1944-1945
(2008-04-02)This thesis investigates one of the staples of academic literature on combat motivation, S.LA. Marshall's “ratio of fire,” through the examination of previously untouched primary-source documentation from the Second World ... -
"A Challenge and A Danger:" Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis
(2012-01-04)President John F. Kennedy’s announcement, on Monday 22 October 1962, that there were offensive missiles on the island of Cuba began the public phase of what would be remembered as the Cuban missile crisis. This Cold War ... -
Children, Liberalism and Utopia: Education, Hall-Dennis and Modernity in Ontario’s Long 1960s
(2015-10-06)In 1968, Ontario’s Department of Education released a report entitled Living and Learning: The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario, which quickly came to be ... -
The City and the Reds: Leftism, the Civic Politics of Order, and a Contested Modernity in Montreal, 1929-1947
(2015-10-06)From 1929 to 1947 the city of Montreal was renegotiating the boundaries of belonging. This dissertation examines the relationship between the left and the city during this period of crisis. Attempts to impose order on the ... -
A Colonial Print Ascendancy: The Domestic Press, Sociability and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Halifax and Québec City
(2016-01-18)From the mid eighteenth-century introduction of printing presses in Halifax (1751) and Québec City (1764), printers, readers and print contributors informally coalesced around the newspapers and magazines produced in the ... -
Commissioning consent : an investigation of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital, 1886-1889
(2008-01-03)The 1880s were turbulent years in the Dominion. Under the auspices of the National Policy, Canada was in the midst of a social and political ‘transformation.’ The social and cultural aspects of this transformation became ... -
Conflicted Selves: Women, Art, & Paris 1880-1914
(2008-12-01)Scholars describe fin-de-siècle Paris as a city of dualities, and examine its past as a series of crises or a tale of burgeoning optimism and opportunity. Historians of women and gender have noted the limitations of this ... -
Conjuring Canadas: Historians and the Quest to Define a Canadian Nation and its Past, 1920-1967
(2016-10-04)This dissertation examines the various ways in which Canadian historical researchers confronted the “Canada question,” namely the challenge of defining the basis of a unified national community. In doing so, it follows the ...