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Mythical Families: the Small Family Norm and Everyday Governance of Population in India, 1954-1977
In the first two decades of decolonization in India, the slogan ‘Hum Do Hamare Do’ (we two, our two) and its associated symbol ‘red triangle’ became synonymous with the nuclear family. This project traces the creation and ... -
And Chaos Whence? Canadian Energy Politics, 1973-1984
This thesis investigates the impact of the 1973 oil shock, its sequel in 1979, and the counter-shock of the mid-1980s on Canada’s socio-economy. Over a decade of uncertainty, beginning when members of the Organization for ... -
“La fédération impériale, voilà notre ennemie”: Honoré Mercier and Public Opinion on Imperial Federalism as Seen Through the Montreal Press, 1885-1893
This thesis examines Québec Premier Honoré Mercier's (1887-1891) critique of imperial federalism from 1885-1893 and its impact on public opinion in Montreal by analysing press coverage. Hostility to imperial federalism was ... -
The Racial Mosaic: Race, Cultural Pluralism, and Canadian Multiculturalism
This dissertation examines the intellectual origins of the Canadian federal government’s official policy of multiculturalism. The first half employs the methodology of historical biography and examines the life and thought ... -
"Transient Beauties": Early Nineteenth-Century British Women and the Construction of a Global Imperial Science Culture
Botanical collecting and illustrating had been a key part of an Enlightened education for elite women during the eighteenth century, and botanical practices were an established part of many women’s activities. As British ... -
Ruin and Redemption: Losing and Regaining Honour in the Canadian Officer Corps, 1914—1945
This dissertation is the first comprehensive study to trace the evolution of military dishonour and dismissal from an historical perspective in the Canadian armed forces during the First and Second World Wars. Using extensive ... -
A Methodological Reconsideration of Early English-Indigenous Communication in Sixteenth Century Northeastern America
In August 1576 five men serving the Elizabethan explorer Martin Frobisher disappeared following an Inuk guide at Baffin Island. Over the next two years the English tried various methods of communication with the Inuit – ... -
Reconfiguring Empire Gently: Indians and Imperial Reform, 1917-1947
This dissertation gives an overview of imperial reform as one of many responses to late colonial rule which existed alongside and in conversation with anticolonialism. I argue that the argument for imperial reform in India ... -
Words without Deeds: A Toxic Culture of Leadership and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces, 1989-1999
In 1998, the Chief of Review Services (CRS) assessed the Canadian Forces (CF) had fell short in reaching “full integration,” a goal which the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) gave the Canadian military in 1989. The ... -
“Planned to bring life back into living”
This thesis examines East Kilbride between 1968-1979. East Kilbride was the first New Town in Scotland, a postwar reform initiated by the British government in 1946 to relocate residents of Britain’s over-crowded cities ... -
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, ...
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