Department of History Graduate Theses
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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 ... -
Within Arm's Reach: Political Violence, Voluntary Organizing, and the Borderland Press During the Canadian Rebellion, 1834-1842
This project focuses on voluntary organizing by the patriots and their use of the press between 1834 and 1842 in the Canadas and the United States, particularly in relation to the Canadian Rebellion of 1837–1838. The ... -
The Workers’ War: The Character of Class Struggle in World War II
This dissertation explores the nature of workers’ self-activity during World War II and the ensuing responses to these actions by the state and capital. A close examination of wartime strikes demonstrates that top-down ... -
Philip Augustus and the Ideological Development of Sacral Kingship in Medieval France
This paper aims to re-evaluate the place of Philip II “Augustus” in the canon of medieval French historiography, and seeks to examine his reign within the context of the development of an ideology of sacral Capetian kingship, ... -
Reds in Beds: The Communist Party of Canada and the Politics of Reproduction, 1920-1970
In the early twentieth-century, the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) initially hesitated to discuss the politics of reproduction as a means of easing material inequity for women and men of the working class. Nevertheless, ... -
Secular World: Victorian Secularism as a Global Ideology in its Imperial Context, 1840-1880
This thesis examines the development of British secularist ideas of morality and social ethics, and how those ideas informed secularist views of non-Europeans and the imperial civilizing mission. I investigate the relationship ... -
Poles Apart: Language and Cultural Barriers Pertaining to the Polish Army's 1st Armoured Division in Normandy, August 1944
This thesis is a study of the effects language and culture on military operations using the experience of the 1st Polish Armoured Division under command of the II Canadian Corps in North Western Europe in August 1944. The ... -
Representations of the Paris Commune
This thesis analyzes and compares representations of the 1871 Paris Commune in literature, socialist theory, and historiography, prioritizing where possible the voices and opinions of participants of the event itself. ... -
“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 ... -
‘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, ...
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