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Oliver Cromwell and the Print Culture of the Interregnum
(2007-09-19)When the second Protectoral Parliament offered the crown to Oliver Cromwell, he, despite his conservative impulses, rejected it. Why would a man who believed in the ancient constitution and hoped to stabilize the British ... -
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 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 ... -
Commissioning consent : an investigation of the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital, 1886-1889
(2008-01-03)The 1880s were turbulent years in the Dominion. Under the auspices of the National Policy, Canada was in the midst of a social and political ‘transformation.’ The social and cultural aspects of this transformation became ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Canadians Against Fire: Canada's Soldiers and Marshall's "Ratio of Fire" 1944-1945
(2008-04-02)This thesis investigates one of the staples of academic literature on combat motivation, S.LA. Marshall's “ratio of fire,” through the examination of previously untouched primary-source documentation from the Second World ... -
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 ... -
Conflicted Selves: Women, Art, & Paris 1880-1914
(2008-12-01)Scholars describe fin-de-siècle Paris as a city of dualities, and examine its past as a series of crises or a tale of burgeoning optimism and opportunity. Historians of women and gender have noted the limitations of this ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Proletarian Prometheus: Socialism, Ethnicity, and Revolution at the Lakehead, 1900-1935
(2009-03-06)“The Proletarian Prometheus: Socialism, Ethnicity, and Revolution at the Lakehead, 1900-1935” is an analysis of the various socialist organizations operating at the Canadian Lakehead (comprised of the twin cities of Port ... -
(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 ... -
The Other Cold War: Canadian Military Assistance in the Developing World
(2009-05-13)This thesis explains how Canada, and the Canadian Forces, became involved with the delivery of military assistance to the developing world from the post-war period until the election of Pierre Trudeau as prime minister in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The 1866 Fenian Raid on Canada West
(2009-09-24)This thesis examines Canada West’s colonial perceptions and reactions towards the Fenian Brotherhood in the Confederation era. Its focus is on the impact of the Fenians on the contemporary public mind, beginning in the ... -
William Lyon Mackenzie King; A Very Double Life?
(2009-12-07)This thesis examines the interest in spiritualism of Canada’s tenth Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King. By placing King’s engagement with spiritualism within the context of recent historiography on spiritualism ... -
Canada, the United States and the Command and Control of Air Forces for Continental Air Defence from Ogdensburg to NORAD, 1940-1957
(2009-12-14)This dissertation examines the evolution of the bilateral Canadian-American continental air defence operational-level command and control relationship from the 1940 Ogdensburg Agreement to the establishment of the North ... -
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 ...