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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 ... -
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Regiment of Women, to which English-Catholic aristocrat Henry Howard responded in 1590 with his as-of-yet-still-unpublished ...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 ... -
“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 ... -
Leonard Woolf and the Politics of Reason in Interwar Britain
(2010-09-09)This thesis is an examination of the role of reason in the thought of the left-leaning writer, publisher, editor and journalist Leonard Woolf. Examining Woolf’s response to political radicalization and impending international ... -
Livelihood Strategies of Dock Workers in Durban, c. 1900-1959
(2011-09-27)This dissertation examines the livelihood strategies of African dock workers in Durban, South Africa, between the Anglo-Boer War and the 1959 strikes. These labourers did not conform to common conceptions of radical dock ... -
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, ... -
Making the scene : Yorkville and Hip Toronto, 1960-1970
(2007-10-03)For a short period during the 1960s Toronto’s Yorkville district was found at the centre of Canada’s youthful bohemian scene. Students, artists, hippies, greasers, bikers, and “weekenders” congregated in and around the ... -
"The Manner of Conferring and Treating with Them": The Board of Trade, the 1730 Anglo-Cherokee Treaty, and the Confluence of Global British Treaty Practices
(2015-10-06)In the summer of 1730, the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations (the Board of Trade) determined to make a treaty with seven Cherokee delegates who were then in London, England. Drawing on their experiences and ... -
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 ... -
Married Women, Crime, and Questions of Liability in England, 1640-1760
(2012-02-23)Upon marriage, women in early modern England became subject to the common law doctrine of coverture. Coverture had a number of consequences, all of which stemmed from a married woman’s lack of independent legal identity. ... -
Memory, Childhood, and the Creation of Identities and Difference: Examining International Evacuation from Britain to Canada, 1938-1945.
Between 1939 and 1945, Canada welcomed more than 10,000 British guest children into the country to escape the threats to their safety posed by the Battle of Britain and by German hostilities generally. For these children, ... -
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 – ... -
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, ... -
(Mis-)Understanding Anti-Semitism and Jewish Identity: From Bernard Lazare to Hannah Arendt
(2009-04-17)This study examines the responses of European intellectuals since the 1880s to an increasingly virulent and organized anti-Semitism in Europe, and the ways in which they sought to understand the character and origins of ... -
Mother Russia and the Socialist Fatherland: Women and the Communist Party of Canada, 1932-1941, with specific reference to the activism of Dorothy Livesay and Jim Watts
(2010-12-01)This dissertation traces a shift in the Communist Party of Canada, from the 1929 to 1935 period of militant class struggle (generally known as the ‘Third Period’) to the 1935-1939 Popular Front Against Fascism, a period ... -
Municipal High Modernism and “Negotiation”: Toronto’s Post-War Governance and Expressway Arrangement c. 1943 - 1971
This essay examines the history of urban planning and governance, urban- suburban infrastructure development, and city-community negotiation in post-war Toronto. A specific emphasis is placed on the downtown community’s ...