Department of History Graduate Theses
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In the lie of this Multicultural Land: An Analysis of Barbados-Canada Relations, 1966 -1990.
Barbados-Canada relations spanned many decades, from November 30, 1966, those relations entered a new dimension, since Barbados now an independent state, was no longer ruled by Britain. This new relationship witnessed new ... -
The path to Antioch: an analysis of the Norman and Greek relationships of Bohemond of Taranto
Bohemond of Taranto has been painted by modern scholars as an opportunistic knight who embarked for the east from Sicily with the Latin armies of the First Crusade in order to acquire a significant lordship for himself. ... -
Diagnosing Witchery: Early Modern Medical Discourses, Public Health, and the Gendered Body in the Seventeenth Century English Witch-Panics
This research examines the nexus of witchcraft and early modern healthcare. It draws on witchcraft studies and history of medicine to frame witchcraft as a public health crisis originating in, and investigated through, ... -
“The Severity of This Service…” Canadien Inland Mariners in the Early Post-Conquest Era, 1760 to 1817
Abstract Beginning just a long decade after New France became part of the British Empire in 1763, a half-century of major crises engulfed British North America; the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), the postwar ... -
Capturing Kinship: Visualizing the History of Chinese Adoption in Canada
The Chinese government enacted the one-child policy during the late 1970s and early 1980s to curb the growth of the country’s swelling population. This extreme form of family planning marked the beginning of a radical ... -
BLACKNESS AND BRITISH ‘FAIR PLAY’: BURGEONING BLACK SOCIAL ACTIVISM IN ONTARIO AND ITS GRASSROOTS RESPONSES TO THE CANADIAN COLOUR LINE, 1919-1939
“Blackness and British ‘Fair Play’: Burgeoning Black Social Activism in Ontario and its Grassroots Responses to the Canadian Colour Line, 1919-1939” centres community-building as an effective method to reject the notion ... -
A MUSICAL MONARCH: QUEEN VICTORIA’S INTEREST IN THE MUSIC AND COMPOSERS OF HER AGE
This thesis explores Queen Victoria’s engagement with the musical world of the nineteenth century and seeks to identify the impact that she had on the music of her age. This research is undertaken using the queen’s journals ... -
Experiential Blackness: Race, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Dominican Society
The controversial subject of blackness resides at the center of discussions of race in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally, scholars have painted the Dominican Republic as a society ignorant of its own history of blackness ... -
"Alive & Kicking": Queer Cultural Memory of Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement Through Photographs of Violence and Protest in The Body Politic (1971-1987)
This thesis examines the collective memory of Toronto’s Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (GLLM) in the 1970s and 1980s through queer cultural memory. This queer cultural memory is informed by photographs and articles ... -
Dancing for Canada/Dancing Beyond Canada: The History of the National Ballet of Canada and Royal Winnipeg Ballet's International Tours, 1958-1974
This thesis traces the growth of the National Ballet of Canada (NBC) and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB) through international ballet exchanges and reveals how foundational they were to the companies’ current reputations. ... -
Marrying a Redcoat: Women's Experiences of Marriage in the British Garrison of Quebec City, 1763-1820
In 1763, following the Treaty of Paris, Quebec City officially became a major British garrison. As a result, there was a constant and substantial presence of Anglophone and Protestant young men, the majority of them single, ... -
Disturbing Silence: How the Student Movement Shaped Nixon’s Presidency and the Policies of America
President Richard M. Nixon’s fear and hatred of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) resulted in the SDS having an undue influence on his foreign policies. The SDS was a small faction of the larger Anti-Vietnam War ... -
“Author and Audience: Creating ‘Sanctifiction’ in Middle Byzantine Hagiography”
This project examines the authorial role in writing a successful hagiography during the so-called Middle Byzantine Period between the ninth and eleventh century. In this skeptical pre-modern society, authorial agency ... -
From the Physical Body to the Body Social: The Development of Enlightenment French Materialism
This thesis examines the development of materialism in the French Enlightenment from 1745 to 1789. As a relatively new intellectual category in the eighteenth century, materialism was systematized after the 1740s in France ... -
The Ultranationalist International: Fascism in Global Historical Perspective
The following is an effort to conceptualize fascism as a global historical problem. Given its ultra-nationalistic bent, approaching fascist movements as a phenomenon entirely distinct to particular national contexts seems ... -
Crime and Punishment in the Patriarchal Court of Constantinople in Late Byzantium, 1261-1453
The Patriarchal court was one of the two major courts in Constantinople in the Late Byzantine period together with the imperial tribunal. Although it is an ecclesiastical court per se, its jurisdiction was never clearly ... -
Restoring a Neglected Queen: Re-Examining Catherine of Braganza's Role in the Restoration Period
In her reign as Queen Consort, issues with Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) brought up questions of power between the Church and State, helped heighten anti-Catholicism, and brought up questions of exclusion years before ... -
Animal Ascension: Elevation and Debasement Through Human-Animal Associations in English Satire, 1700-1820
Animals were integral to conceptions of human identity and society in the long eighteenth century. English satirists employed human-animal associations in their undermining and subversion of authority, and wielded animal ... -
Speaking Volumes: Publishers’ Bindings in English-Canada 1870-1920
The nineteenth century saw a significant shift in how books were produced. Industrialization and the emergence of a mass reading public, whose members also had increased leisure time and money, led to the need for less ... -
A Laboratory of Social Policy: California, The New Right and the Gubernatorial Administration of Ronald Reagan, 1967-1975
The traditional historiographical narrative locates the revival of grassroots conservatism in the postwar decades, the subsequent reemergence of conservatives in mainstream American politics by the mid 1970s and the ...
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