• A human history of Tl’chés, 1860-1973 

  Forest-Hammond, Elise Gabrielle (2020-05-04)

  This thesis represents a human history of Tl’chés (Discovery and Chatham Islands) roughly between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. It presents Songhees and Settler life on the archipelago, as well as the dispossession ...
• Dreaming of empire: German imperialism, the use of othering and the evolution of the Nazis’ ideological imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler 

  Dumont, Robert (2020-04-17)

  Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany engaged in an extremely aggressive form of ideologically based conquest throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Based on the imperial doctrine established in Mein Kampf, this ‘ideological ...
• Stopping the “world’s greatest threat”: Canadian policy and rhetoric towards the Iranian nuclear program during Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, 2006-2015 

  Ballin, Jonathan (2020-03-09)

  Canada has long stood firm against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. When the Conservative government of Stephen Harper was elected in 2006, Canada departed significantly from many traditional aspects of its foreign ...
• Books by women, for women, about women: an oral history of everywomans books in Victoria, B.C., 1975-1997 

  Antoniazzi, Taylor (2020-02-03)

  Everywomans Books was a non-profit feminist bookstore established in Victoria, B.C. in 1975. The store closed in 1997 due to financial problems, but it was the last remaining non-profit feminist bookstore run by an ...
• A history of wildlife management practices in British Columbia to 1918 

  Ball, Georgiana Genevieve (2019-10-18)

  This thesis traces the evolution of wildlife manage­ment practices in British Columbia from pre-contact times to 1918. The aboriginal people employed certain measures to restrict the killing of their most valuable species, ...
• A promise kept: the mystical reach through loss 

  Collins, Jody (2019-10-04)

  The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And ...
• A bridge to nowhere: British Columbia’s capitalist nature and the Carmanah Walbran War in the Woods (1988-1994) 

  Davey, James (2019-10-03)

  From 1988 to 1994, the Carmanah and Walbran valleys on southern Vancouver Island emerged from obscurity to inspire international newspaper headlines, ecotage, and election platforms, and figure in British Columbia’s ...
• A brief history of 19th–20th century genocidal Indian education in British Columbia and oral history of Gitxsan resistance and resurgence 

  Mowatt, Gina (2019-09-04)

  Indian Education, including but not limited to Indian Residential Schools and Indian Day schools, are one part of an ongoing system of elimination of Indigenous people in Canada. I argue that Indian Education in 19th – ...
• ‘Claiming refuge’: a settler’s unsettling history of Hot Springs Cove 

  Lynch, David (2019-09-03)

  This thesis surveys the long human history of Hot Springs Cove, British Columbia, a small inlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island (formerly known as Refuge Cove). The study spans the period from the arrival of the ...
• “You are a political soldier” : the people’s war in N’wamitwa 1989-1994 

  Lundeberg, Faelan (2019-08-30)

  In the waning days of apartheid, an operative of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of South Africa’s most powerful dissident organization the African National Congress, returned to his home community of N’wamitwa after ...
• Masks of hegemony: populism, neoliberalism, and welfare narratives in British Columbia, 1975-2004 

  Koehn, Drew (2019-08-29)

  For all but thirteen years of the decades from 1952 to 2017, British Columbia was electorally dominated by the Social Credit Party and its ideological successor, the BC Liberal Party. These organizations represented ...
• Popular culture and the political mobilization of Guangdong elites in modern China and the Chinese diaspora, 1839-1911 

  Huang, Hairong (2019-08-20)

  From 1839 to 1911, Guangdong elites, including Qing officials in the province, local gentry, native intellectuals, and so on, made full use of popular culture for political mobilization of the populace. This study examines ...
• A city goes to war: Victoria in the Great War 1914-1918 

  Kempling, James S. (2019-07-23)

  This dissertation is a combined digital history-narrative history project. It takes advantage of newly digitized historical newspapers and soldier files to explore how the people of Victoria B.C. Canada, over 8000 kilometers ...
• The unhoused: homelessness in early-twentieth century British Columbia 

  Kelly, Eoin (2019-02-05)

  North American histories of homelessness have focused upon the specific image of the “tramp.” Exemplified by Charlie Chaplin, Jack London, and various other popular representations in a variety of media formats, the tramp, ...
• "They are a scum community who have organized:" The Georgia Straight, freedom of expression, and Tom Campbell’s war on the counterculture, 1967 – 1972 

  Sherman, Jake Noah (2019-01-15)

  The 1960s have a special place in the cultural memory of the West Coast of Canada. They have informed its regional identity, the cityscape of Vancouver, and the social infrastructure of the modern state. But lost in the ...
• Patriotism, internationalism, and anarchy: the anarchist response to the Boulanger Affair 

  Cameron, Max (2018-12-24)

  In the late 1880s, the Boulanger Affair threatened to bring down the French Third Republic. The Boulangist movement, centered around General Georges Ernest Boulanger, capitalized on ultra-nationalist fervour for revenge ...
• The business of women: gender, family, and entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-1971 

  Buddle, Melanie Anne (2018-11-27)

  This study examines female self-employment in British Columbia from 1901 to 1971. Entrepreneurial women comprised a small proportion of the total female labour force but they exhibited differences from the rest of the ...
• Constructing Heimat in the Ruhr Valley: assessing the historical significance of Krupp company housing from its origins through the National Socialist era, 1855-1941 

  Bolz, Cedric (2018-11-27)

  As the central pillar of the Krupp steel firm’s much-publicized company welfare initiatives, employee housing has played a vital role in shaping Krupp’s corporate identity from 1855 to the present. The central objective ...
• Remote control: a history of the regulation of religion in the Canadian public square 

  Fennema, Norman James (2018-11-16)

  The modern Canadian state is secular, but it is not a neutral state. It is a liberal democracy in which the prevailing value system has shifted. The shift has been from a culture in which a commonly held religion was ...
• “Through a glasse darkly”: secrecy and access to arcane knowledge in seventeenth-century England 

  Hunfeld, Christa (2018-10-01)

  In seventeenth-century England, pursuits of knowledge were shaped by two seemingly paradoxical, yet interwoven beliefs: a persistent belief in the devastating effects of the Fall on human reason, and a growing trust in ...

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