Department of History Graduate Theses
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The Many Ways to Evaluate Income Taxes: Canadian Income Tax Compliance with Attention to Surplus Stripping: 1917-1972
This study of the relationship between the Canadian taxpayer and the income tax regime examines the manner in which the federal income tax, first established by Finance Minister Sir Thomas White of the Robert Borden ... -
Apologists, Prohibitionists, and Systemic Inertia: The Origins of Global Drug Control, 1900-1945
This thesis examines the early evolution of the global prohibitory regime surrounding the production, manufacture, distribution, and consumption of illicit drugs --notably opium, cocaine, and cannabis. The primary focus ... -
MAKING HOME: PERFORMANCE, SOCIABILITY, AND IDENTITY IN ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND, 1810-1860.
St. John’s, Newfoundland underwent an economic and cultural transformation in the early nineteenth century. With a growing year-round resident population, and mercantile operations increasingly headquartered out the town, ... -
Migration and its Impact on the Household: Medieval Valencia after the Black Death Plague, 1348-1453
The 1348 Black Death Plague killed at least twenty percent of Valencia’s population, and the effects were devastating: reduced reproduction, raised mortality, massive shifts in migration, intense growth in city population, ... -
The English State Lottery-Loan and the Origins of Modern Public Finance in the Atlantic World, 1694 - 1826
The 170 English state lottery-loans held from 1694 to 1826 were a key method of modern longterm debt-based public finance, utilized as an important emergency contingency in times of war. This dissertation examines the ... -
Nature's Empire: Postcolonialism, Environmentalism, and Parti pris, 1963-1970
In 1963, the journal Parti pris was founded in response to the bombings perpetrated by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). The journal published on a monthly basis from 1963 till 1968. This period in Quebec coincided ... -
Victor’s Justice, Victim’s Justice: The Role of ‘Class A’ War Crimes in Shaping the Legacy of the Tokyo Tribunal
The Class A component of the International Military Proceedings for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial, has had a central—and at times overbearing—presence within the legacy of the tribunal. Documents from ... -
The Pilgrim Trust: A History of a "salvage corps" and its Efforts to Preserve the Image of the Nation during Britain's Mid-Twentieth Century
To know the history of the Pilgrim Trust is to also know Britain’s response to several of its greatest challenges of the twentieth century. Still in operation today, the Pilgrim Trust directly engaged at both national and ... -
The Honest Man/L’Homme Honnête: The Colonial Gentleman, the Development of the Press, and the Race and Gender Discourses of the Newspapers in the British “Province of Quebec,” 1764-1791
This dissertation examines the new public world of print that emerged and developed in the “Province of Quebec” from 1764 to 1791. Using discourse analysis, it argues that the press reflected, and contributed to producing ... -
Days of Action: Ontario's Extra-Parliamentary Opposition to the Common Sense Revolution, 1995-1998
From 1995 to 1998, Ontario was the site of a sustained political and industrial conflict between the provincial government of Premier Mike Harris and a loosely-coordinated protest movement of labour unions, community ... -
Establishing Policies of Envrionmental Protection in Hubei, 1970-1990
This dissertation investigates the evolution of environmental protection (EP) policy in Hubei Province from the early 1970s to the middle 1980s. It addresses the local impacts of economic and environmental policies during ... -
Neoliberal Modernizers: The American Friends of the Middle East and Its Subversion of Arab Nationalism, 1951-67
The American Friends of the Middle East (AFME) was a civil society organization that operated various cultural and technical programs in the Middle East. This thesis analyzes its activities and interactions with Arab states, ... -
Gender, Power, and Regnant Queenship in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
This thesis will explore the relationship between regnant queenship and power in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Specifically, the reigns of Queens Melisende (r. 1131-1153), Sibylla (r. 1186-1190), Isabella (r. 1190-1205), ... -
Two Confessions, One Jerusalem: Conceptions of Jews and Jerusalem in the Early Modern English Sermon
Jews and their city of Jerusalem have been a perpetual source of discussion within Christendom. The English Reformation became more established under the Elizabethan settlement of 1559. This fundamental change in religious ... -
To Be North American but Not American: The Transformation of Canadian Studies and Canadian Universities
The Canadianization movement emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s from Canadian universities and has been treated as a brief moment in the historiography of Canada’s 1960s, post-secondary education in Canada and broader ... -
Memory, Childhood, and the Creation of Identities and Difference: Examining International Evacuation from Britain to Canada, 1938-1945.
Between 1939 and 1945, Canada welcomed more than 10,000 British guest children into the country to escape the threats to their safety posed by the Battle of Britain and by German hostilities generally. For these children, ... -
The Age of Constitutionalism: Crisis, Rebellion, and Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Colonial North America
This thesis examines the role of constitutional thought in the development of colonial American resistance to the authority of the British state. It argues that beginning in 1765 American colonists recognized the need for ... -
Municipal High Modernism and “Negotiation”: Toronto’s Post-War Governance and Expressway Arrangement c. 1943 - 1971
This essay examines the history of urban planning and governance, urban- suburban infrastructure development, and city-community negotiation in post-war Toronto. A specific emphasis is placed on the downtown community’s ... -
Christian Manhood on Crusade: A Gender Analysis of Clerical Discourses on Latin Masculinities, 1095-1120
The birth of crusading and the religious reform movements of the late eleventh century left deep impressions on how some clerical and lay authors thought about, described, and discursively represented the masculine ideals ... -
Shizhe Shengcun (Survival of the Fittest): The Origin and Adaptation of Social Darwinist Concepts in Modern China
Shizhe shengcun was the best-known Chinese phrase associated with Darwinism and Social Darwinism during the twentieth century. It has remained in use to this day, and continues to be accepted as the best translation of the ...
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