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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 ... -
Enlightened Hobbism: Aspects of the Eighteenth-Century Reception of Hobbes in Britain
Hobbes was Britain’s quintessential atheist at the dawn of the eighteenth century, and Hobbism (a widely recognized creed) was commonly used to identify and police theological and ecclesiological heterodoxy. A competing ... -
‘Equality Now!’: Race, Racism and Resistance in 1970s Toronto
(2012-08-30)This thesis explores the recognition of institutional racism in Ontario. It examines discourses of institutional racism between the late 1960s and early 1980s and argues that the recognition of institutional racism at ... -
Ernst Haeckel and the Morphology of Ethics
(2004)A respected marine biologist at the University of Jena, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was the most visible proponent of Darwin’s theory of evolution in Germany around the turn of the twentieth century. Alongside his ... -
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 ... -
Forging Iconographies and Casting Colonialism: Monuments and Memories in Ontario, 1850-2001
(2016-09-23)Commemorations are a critical window for exploring the social, political, and cultural trends of a specific time period. Over the past two centuries, the commemorative landscape of Ontario reaffirmed the inclusion/exclusion ... -
From Governors to Grocers: How Profiteering Changed English-Canadian Perspectives of Liberalism in the Great War of 1914-1918
(2013-09-20)The war against Germany was perceived by the majority of English Canadians as a necessity to defend the British Empire, democracy and justice. However, it became increasingly evident to the public that some individuals ... -
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 ... -
Fuelling a War Machine: Canadian Foreign Policy in the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
(2011-11-08)The subject of Canada’s policy-making in relation to the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) has been neglected for over half a century. Therefore neither the scope of Canada’s official assistance to the Chinese during their War ... -
Gender, Politics and Social Medicine in South Africa, 1940 - 1959
(2009-01-12)This thesis is a first step to a gender analysis of South Africa’s social medicine experiment of the 1940s. The research focused on the work of the Health Centres, in particular Grassy Park and Polela, which were established ... -
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), ... -
A Godless Dominion: Unbelief and Religious Controversy in Interwar Canada
(2015-06-16)Between 1925 and 1940 Canadian unbelievers in three cities, Winnipeg, Toronto, and Montreal, got organized and took up an active struggle against religion. This study examines that historical moment and asks what it was ... -
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, ... -
A Great War of Expectations: Men, Mothers, and Monsters in Toronto, 1914-1918
(2015-10-02)Gendered expectations about wartime duty were central to Toronto’s mobilization during the First World War. How Torontonians defined these duties and responsibilities – and how they imagined the war they were waging – ... -
Guarding the City Beautiful: Liberalism, Empire, Labour, and Civic Identity in Hamilton, Ontario, 1929-53
(2014-07-09)Hamilton, Ontario has provided a testing ground for social historians exploring questions about labour, working-class conflict, and shop-floor politics. These studies, though extensive, have largely overlooked the political ... -
"Half-Gods Good Surgeons May Be Called": Surgery's Quest For Occupational Credit in England, 1590-1715
(2014-09-09)This study contributes to the scholarship on early modern medicine and the professions by examining English surgical practitioners, 1590-1715. It explores the growth of surgery through the intersection of print culture ... -
Hayton of Korykos and La Flor des Estoires: Cilician Armenian Mediation in Crusader-Mongol Politics, c.1250-1350
(2015-02-05)Hayton’s La Flor des estoires de la terre d’Orient (1307) is typically viewed by scholars as a propagandistic piece of literature, which focuses on promoting the Ilkhanid Mongols as suitable allies for a western crusade. ... -
Health and Medicine as “the Rallying Points of Unity:” Physicians, Activism and International Efforts in the Early Cold War
(2015-07-23)This thesis is an exploration of different manifestations of the struggle to determine the place of health and medicine in the international diplomatic and institutional landscape during early years of the Cold War. Relying ...