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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 ... -
'Helping People Help Themselves': Democracy, Development, and the Global Politics of Poverty in Canada, 1964-1979
For a remarkable period between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, a global politics of poverty emerged. Prompted by anti-imperialist struggles, working class demands, social and cultural ferment, and socialist alternatives, ... -
Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette: Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe
(2012-05-24)Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette: Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe analyzes Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette in a thematic framework, focussing on the dialogue between their perceptions of themselves ... -
Holding Hands With Wampum: Haudenosaunee Council Fires from the Great Law of Peace to Contemporary Relationships with the Canadian State
(2009-01-05)“Holding Hands With Wampum” weaves a story of disparate peoples who came together to create a new North American World over a period of more than five centuries. The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora ... -
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 ... -
Imperial Volunteering: Women and Welfare in the Twentieth-Century British Empire
(2015-09-09)This thesis examines the rhetoric and practice of voluntary welfare work by British women within the twentieth-century British Empire. Voluntarism was an important component of the attention to colonial welfare and development ... -
In Search of Minerva's Owl: Canada’s Army and Staff Education (1946-1995)
(2015-01-19)The intellectual history of the Canadian Army from 1946 to 1995 can be traced through the curriculum utilized by the Canadian Army Staff College and the Canadian Forces College to educate the Canadian Army staff officer ... -
Inequities in Education: A Study of Left-behind Children and Migrant Children
In the 1950s, China’s household registration system (hukou) was set up to serve the planned economy, becoming in turn a vital tool to manage migration. After the launching of Reform and Opening policies in 1978, the planned ... -
Insiders’ Entitlements: Formation of the Household Registration (huji/hukou) System (1949-1959)
(2012-06-27)The distinctive household registration (hukou or huji) system of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) divides the population into two groups whose political rights and legal status are unequal. This thesis focuses on ... -
Interpreting a Past: Presenting Gender History at Living History Sites in Ontario
(2011-09-28)Drawing upon close observation of site practices, interviews, and visitor surveys, this project analyses the programming offered at historic sites, highlighting the aspects of history that are omitted or treated superficially. ... -
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 ... -
Know Thyself: Marsilio Ficino on Revelation, Wisdom, and Reform
(2015-01-15)Marsilio Ficino’s Latin writings contain within them a program of clerical, social, and political reform. The agent of such reform was a disciplinary apparatus called know thyself. Through know thyself, an ideal philosopher ...