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Beyond “the Desert and the Sown”: Peasants, Pastoralists, and Climate Crises in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1840-1890
(2016-02-05)This dissertation refocuses attention from a ‘clash of cultures’ to a ‘clash of environmental economies’ within the eastern regions of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, particularly the province of Diyarbekir. An ... -
‘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, ... -
By the Road: Fordism, Automobility, and Landscape Experience in the British Columbia Interior, 1920-1970
(2012-12-13)This dissertation examines how popular experiences of nature and history in the British Columbia Interior were structured by automobility – the system of objects, spaces, images, and practices that surrounded private ... -
Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
(2011-05-30)This dissertation examines the histories of Indigenous protest, commonly known as “Red Power,” in the 1960s and 1970s in the town of Kenora, Ontario. Among the themes discussed are the associations of Indian and Métis ... -
Canada, the United States and the Command and Control of Air Forces for Continental Air Defence from Ogdensburg to NORAD, 1940-1957
(2009-12-14)This dissertation examines the evolution of the bilateral Canadian-American continental air defence operational-level command and control relationship from the 1940 Ogdensburg Agreement to the establishment of the North ... -
The Canadian Soldier: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945
(2014-06-26)This thesis is a study of the combat motivation and morale of infantrymen in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Using battle experience questionnaires, censorship reports, statistical analyses, operational ... -
Canadians Against Fire: Canada's Soldiers and Marshall's "Ratio of Fire" 1944-1945
(2008-04-02)This thesis investigates one of the staples of academic literature on combat motivation, S.LA. Marshall's “ratio of fire,” through the examination of previously untouched primary-source documentation from the Second World ... -
"A Challenge and A Danger:" Canada and the Cuban Missile Crisis
(2012-01-04)President John F. Kennedy’s announcement, on Monday 22 October 1962, that there were offensive missiles on the island of Cuba began the public phase of what would be remembered as the Cuban missile crisis. This Cold War ... -
Children, Liberalism and Utopia: Education, Hall-Dennis and Modernity in Ontario’s Long 1960s
(2015-10-06)In 1968, Ontario’s Department of Education released a report entitled Living and Learning: The Report of the Provincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario, which quickly came to be ... -
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 ... -
The City and the Reds: Leftism, the Civic Politics of Order, and a Contested Modernity in Montreal, 1929-1947
(2015-10-06)From 1929 to 1947 the city of Montreal was renegotiating the boundaries of belonging. This dissertation examines the relationship between the left and the city during this period of crisis. Attempts to impose order on the ... -
A Colonial Print Ascendancy: The Domestic Press, Sociability and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Halifax and Québec City
(2016-01-18)From the mid eighteenth-century introduction of printing presses in Halifax (1751) and Québec City (1764), printers, readers and print contributors informally coalesced around the newspapers and magazines produced in the ... -
Commissioning consent : an investigation of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital, 1886-1889
(2008-01-03)The 1880s were turbulent years in the Dominion. Under the auspices of the National Policy, Canada was in the midst of a social and political ‘transformation.’ The social and cultural aspects of this transformation became ... -
Conflicted Selves: Women, Art, & Paris 1880-1914
(2008-12-01)Scholars describe fin-de-siècle Paris as a city of dualities, and examine its past as a series of crises or a tale of burgeoning optimism and opportunity. Historians of women and gender have noted the limitations of this ... -
Conjuring Canadas: Historians and the Quest to Define a Canadian Nation and its Past, 1920-1967
(2016-10-04)This dissertation examines the various ways in which Canadian historical researchers confronted the “Canada question,” namely the challenge of defining the basis of a unified national community. In doing so, it follows the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Empire Within: Montreal, the Sixties, and the Forging of a Radical Imagination
(2007-11-02)This thesis explores the wide variety of ways in which radical intellectuals and activists in Montreal used and adapted Third World decolonization theory to build a broad movement of solidarity and anti-colonial resistance ... -
Engineering the Nile: Irrigation and the British Empire in Egypt, 1882-1914
(2013-01-04)This thesis examines technological and social mechanisms of British imperial water control as created and managed by British irrigation engineers in Egypt between 1882 and 1914. In the aftermath of the British military ... -
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 ...