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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, ... -
Talking Scot: English Perceptions of the Scots During the Regal Union
(2011-04-13)From 1603 until 1707, England and Scotland were joined by what scholars have described as the regal union. A dynastic accident that came into being when James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne as well, it forced ... -
Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
(2011-06-14)In the eleventh and twelfth centuries southern Italy passed irrevocably out of Byzantine control and into Norman control, at roughly the same time as the Roman papacy and the Christians of the East were beginning to divide ... -
To Be North American but Not American: The Transformation of Canadian Studies and Canadian Universities
The Canadianization movement emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s from Canadian universities and has been treated as a brief moment in the historiography of Canada’s 1960s, post-secondary education in Canada and broader ... -
"Transient Beauties": Early Nineteenth-Century British Women and the Construction of a Global Imperial Science Culture
Botanical collecting and illustrating had been a key part of an Enlightened education for elite women during the eighteenth century, and botanical practices were an established part of many women’s activities. As British ... -
Transnational Radicals: Italian Anarchist Networks in Southern Ontario and the Northeastern United States, 1915-1940
(2010-11-16)Previous studies of the left have tended to focus on groups or movements within the confines of national boundaries. Yet the adherents of these organizations were often migrants who traveled to and lived in multiple states. ... -
Treating Hunger: Medical Expertise, Nutritional Science, and the Development of Technical Food Solutions
This thesis traces the way hunger was transformed into a medical problem and humanitarian food relief mutated into medical treatment from the Second World War until contemporary times. I chart how the medicalization of ... -
Two Confessions, One Jerusalem: Conceptions of Jews and Jerusalem in the Early Modern English Sermon
Jews and their city of Jerusalem have been a perpetual source of discussion within Christendom. The English Reformation became more established under the Elizabethan settlement of 1559. This fundamental change in religious ... -
'Undesirable Practices': Women, Children, and the Politics of Development in Northern Ghana, 1930-1972
(2014-04-04)Following the First World War, colonial policy in West Africa underwent a transition as British administrators began to adopt indirect rule reforms to help usher in peasant-driven agricultural development in Northern Ghana. ... -
The Via Media to Vatican II: Liberalism, Socialism, and Transatlantic Catholic Social Thought, 1912 to 1961
(2014-07-03)Following the Capture of Rome and suspension of the First Vatican Council in 1870, the Roman Catholic Church, as a global institution, desperately needed to rethink its relationship to modernity. Catholics had attempted ... -
Victor’s Justice, Victim’s Justice: The Role of ‘Class A’ War Crimes in Shaping the Legacy of the Tokyo Tribunal
The Class A component of the International Military Proceedings for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial, has had a central—and at times overbearing—presence within the legacy of the tribunal. Documents from ... -
Watching the War and Keeping the Peace: the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in the Middle East, 1949-1956
(2009-05-28)By virtue of their presence, observers alter what they are observing. Yet, the international soldiers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) did much more than observe events. From August 1949 until ...