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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 ... -
Racializing Subalternity: Space, Caste, and Gender in Muslim Mohallas of Lucknow (1947-1993)
The dissertation seeks to examine systems of racialization that produce the “Indian Muslim” subaltern biologically, discursively, and historically while bearing in mind the material consequences for the group circumscribed ... -
Radical Ambition: A Portrait of the Toronto New Left, 1958-1985
(2016-10-03)This thesis examines the rise and decline of the New Left in Toronto from 1958 to 1985. It argues that New Leftism — whose three leading ideals were self-management, national liberation, and community — arose as much from ... -
The reading of MacKenzie King
(2008-02-05)This study observes Mackenzie King as a reader. By examining the marginalia in the books preserved in his library and his responses to that reading recorded in his diary and correspondence, this study shows that King was ... -
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 ... -
Reds in Beds: The Communist Party of Canada and the Politics of Reproduction, 1920-1970
In the early twentieth-century, the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) initially hesitated to discuss the politics of reproduction as a means of easing material inequity for women and men of the working class. Nevertheless, ... -
Renewing Homeland and Place: Algonquians, Christianity, and Community in Southern New England, 1700-1790
(2010-09-25)“Renewing Homeland and Place” explores the complex intertwining of evangelical Christianity and notions of place and homeland in Algonquian communities in southern New England during the eighteenth century. In particular, ... -
Representations of the Paris Commune
This thesis analyzes and compares representations of the 1871 Paris Commune in literature, socialist theory, and historiography, prioritizing where possible the voices and opinions of participants of the event itself. ... -
Restoring a Neglected Queen: Re-Examining Catherine of Braganza's Role in the Restoration Period
In her reign as Queen Consort, issues with Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) brought up questions of power between the Church and State, helped heighten anti-Catholicism, and brought up questions of exclusion years before ... -
RÊVE/CAUCHEMAR: Allende‘s Chile and the Polarization of the Québec Left, 1968-1974
(2014-10-01)Chile’s ill-fated attempt to build a democratic socialism (1970-1973) was a defining moment for the global New Left. Nowhere was this truer than in Québec. During the Allende years and after, Chile exercised a decisive ... -
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 ... -
Salvation from empire : the roots of Anishinabe Christianity in Upper Canada
(2008-07-18)This thesis examine the cultural interaction between Anishinabe people, who lived in what is now southern Ontario, and the Loyalists, Euroamerican settlers who moved north from the United States during and after the American ... -
A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought
(2012-07-18)This work examines what constituted 19th century American military science, why it was framed within government policy and taught within the United States Military Academy, and how it became the early American way of war. ... -
The Search for Continental Security: The Development of the North American Air Defence System, 1949 to 1956
(2011-09-14)This dissertation examines the development of the North American air defence system from the beginning of the Cold War until 1956. It focuses on the political and diplomatic dynamics behind the emergence of these defences, ... -
Secular World: Victorian Secularism as a Global Ideology in its Imperial Context, 1840-1880
This thesis examines the development of British secularist ideas of morality and social ethics, and how those ideas informed secularist views of non-Europeans and the imperial civilizing mission. I investigate the relationship ... -
Shizhe Shengcun (Survival of the Fittest): The Origin and Adaptation of Social Darwinist Concepts in Modern China
Shizhe shengcun was the best-known Chinese phrase associated with Darwinism and Social Darwinism during the twentieth century. It has remained in use to this day, and continues to be accepted as the best translation of the ... -
The Social Status and Thought of Merchants in Ming China, 1368-1644: a Foray in Clarifying the Social Effects of the Commercialization of Ming China
(2009-09-14)Recent proponents of non-Eurocentric approaches to the study of development in non-Western areas in the early modern period have seized on late imperial China (1368-1911) as an example of an indigenous trajectory of ... -
South Asians as Medical Scapegoats in British Columbia and the Pacific Coast States, 1900-1924
(2013-09-26)This transnational study of the first-wave South Asian immigrant experience in British Columbia and the Pacific coast states shows how elected officials at all levels of government, bureaucrats, union leaders, physicians, ... -
Speaking Volumes: Publishers’ Bindings in English-Canada 1870-1920
The nineteenth century saw a significant shift in how books were produced. Industrialization and the emergence of a mass reading public, whose members also had increased leisure time and money, led to the need for less ... -
A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937-1945
(2008-10-02)During the Sino-Japanese war of 1937 to 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Shandong Province in North China achieved an unnoticed but historically significant success in financial affairs. From that time onward, ...