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All the World's a Stage: Local, National, and Transnational Histories of the Stratford Festival
This dissertation examines the history of the Stratford Festival, a theatre festival founded in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, in 1953, at local, national, and transnational levels. Through the case study of the festival, ... -
Culture War Commonalities: Personal Appearance in Commonwealth England
The swift social, political, and religious changes that encompassed England’s Civil Wars, and later the Puritan-dominated Commonwealth, during the seventeenth-century led to a surge of moralist literature, published during ... -
Adam Smith as a Critic of Commercial Society
Popular contemporary views of Adam Smith paint the eighteenth-century intellectual as a staunch proponent of commercial society. However, an examination of Smith’s lesser-known works, and his cultural and intellectual ... -
John Knox and Henry Howard: An Understanding of Early Modern Queens Regnant
In 1558, Scottish Reformer John Knox published The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women, to which English-Catholic aristocrat Henry Howard responded in 1590 with his as-of-yet-still-unpublished ... -
The Academic Trajectory of Natalie Zemon Davis From 1955 to 2019
This is a historiographical examination of Natalie Zemon Davis and her contribution to historical writing over the course of her academic career. I examine Davis’ body of work from her first published article as a graduate ... -
The Governor, the Merchant, the Soldier, the Nun, and their Slaves
From 1650 onward, the city of Montréal became a crossroads that connected colonial French, Indigenous, and African worlds. A study of the geo-cultural landscapes of Montréal presents an opportunity to analyze the commercial, ... -
Treating Hunger: Medical Expertise, Nutritional Science, and the Development of Technical Food Solutions
This thesis traces the way hunger was transformed into a medical problem and humanitarian food relief mutated into medical treatment from the Second World War until contemporary times. I chart how the medicalization of ... -
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), ...
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