• “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 ...
• An unsuccessful mission: the short-lived alliance of the Soviet Union with warlord Feng Yuxiang, 1925-1927 

  Petrov, Dmitry (2018-10-01)

  This Master’s thesis examines the reasons for the failure of the Soviet advisers’ mission in Chinese warlord Feng Yuxiang’s army in 1925-1927. The USSR had strategic interests in Northern China and needed an ally to help ...
• "Sandwiches and/or sushi?" : second generation Japanese Canadian women and The New Canadian, 1938-1949 

  Camelon, Stephanie Jean Marie (2018-10-01)

  This thesis examines the writings of second generation Japanese Canadian women in the newspaper, The New Canadian between 1938 and 1949. Nisei women lived in a dual world containing different messages of appropriate female ...
• Creating the American carceral state: the evolution of liberal criminology 

  Williamson, Shaun (2018-09-28)

  This thesis explores mass incarceration in the United States as an outcome of the evolution of liberal penal theory over the last two centuries. The first chapter analyzes the work of the 18th century Italian legal theorist ...
• "As the times want him to decide": the lives and times of Florence Maybrick, 1891-2015 

  Miller, Noah (2018-09-06)

  This thesis examines major publications produced between 1891-2015 that portray the trial of Florence Maybrick. Inspired by Paul Davis’ Lives and Times of Ebenezer Scrooge, it considers the various iterations of Florence’s ...
• The caravan of deplorables: perspectives on Romani Anglophobia in late modern Britain 

  Lidstone, Michael Trent (2018-09-04)

  Scholars researching Britain from the 1880s to the First World War have often failed to portray a diverse range of British attitudes towards the period’s state-sanctioned efforts to assimilate the Romani people. In most ...
• Not the hole story: exclusivity at the Colwood Golf and Country Club, 1913-1934 

  Bullman, Kalin (2018-08-31)

  The purpose of my study is to explore the early history of the Colwood Golf and Country Club as a way of understanding one aspect of settler colonialism – that is to study how certain tracts of Indigenous land were transformed ...
• Seduced and dying: the sympathetic trope of the fallen woman in early and mid-Victorian Britain, c. 1820-1870 

  Deacon, Deborah (2018-08-30)

  In early and mid-Victorian Britain, men and women from all classes demonstrated a strong fascination with, and sympathy for, seduced and dying women. Though such women were unchaste or “fallen” women, they did not excite ...
• “Et nous aussi nous sommes Citoyennes”: perceptions of women’s political activity in the French Revolution, 1789-1793 

  Freeman-Orr, Chandler (2018-08-29)

  This thesis explores the multiple ways women’s capacity for political action was perceived, both by themselves as well as by others, in the early years of the French Revolution. By beginning with women’s journey to ...
• “I know what I am and what I am not”: heterosexual male cross-dressing in postwar America, 1960-1990 

  Glover, Alexie Moira (2018-08-23)

  This thesis uncovers and historicizes an overlooked aspect of America’s transgender history. The heterosexual male cross-dressers, or transvestites, of mid-century America constituted a group of individuals that espoused ...
• Caging the seas: cetacean capture and display at Marineland of the Pacific, 1954-1967 

  Griffin, Isobel (2018-08-16)

  This thesis examines the early years of marine mammal captivity at Marineland of the Pacific and its impacts on the oceanarium industry, cetacean science, and public perceptions of whales. Opening in 1954, Marineland was ...
• Bankers and bomb makers: gender ideology and women's paid work in banking and munitions during the first world war in Canada 

  Street, Kori (2018-08-03)

  During the First World War, some Canadian women found themselves in new and unfamiliar environments, doing jobs apparently unavailable to them before the war. Many of those women were successful in the new opportunities ...
• Creating and recreating community: Hiroshima and Canada 1891-1941 

  Ayukawa, Michiko Midge (2018-07-31)

  This dissertation covers the political, economic, and social circumstances in Japan that led to the emigration from Hiroshima prefecture, and the lives and communities of these emigrants in Canada. It traces the gradual ...
• The evolution of Qur'anic hermeneutics in British India, 1857-1947 

  Bashir, Kamran (2018-07-03)

  Histories of tafsīr in South Asia have been mainly focused on identifying extant works of Qur’anic scholarship in the region. There are only a few academic works that explore the primary sources in detail. Surveys of the ...
• "These kind of flesh-flies shall not suck up or devour their husbands' estates:" married women's separate property rights in England, 1630-1835 

  Mercier, Courtenay (2018-06-18)

  During the long eighteenth century, married women in England were subject to the rules of coverture, which denied them a legal identity independent of their husbands and severely curtailed their acquisition, possession and ...
• Sporting multiculturalism: Toronto's postwar European immigrants, gender, diaspora, and the grassroots making of Canadian diversity 

  Fielding, Stephen (2018-04-30)

  This dissertation offers an alternative lens to understand Canada’s gradual embrace of multiculturalism. Scholars have typically “worked back” from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s famous 1971 declaration to unearth the ...
• A "Colony of Unrequited Dreams"? Settler colonialism and the failed-settlement narrative in the Ottawa-Huron Tract, 1850-1910 

  Murray, Derek (2018-04-18)

  In the 1850s, the government of Canada West initiated a project to colonize a vast region of the Canadian Shield known as the Ottawa-Huron Tract. Later, in his influential interpretation, Arthur Lower argued the myth of ...
• Death, burial and mutuality : A study of popular funerary customs in Cumbria, 1700-1920 

  Callaghan, Brenda Doreen (2018-02-05)

  This thesis investigates the impact of modernisation upon popular death customs in Cumbria between 1700 and 1920. Specifically, it explores the role and nature of mutuality, arguing that despite the growth of individualism, ...
• Tsemsyaenhl-get: sixteen battles in the military history of the nine allied Tsimshian tribes 

  Buddenhagen, Jeremy (2018-02-02)

  There is a deeply held bias in Northwest Coast scholarly literature that suggests pre-contact Indigenous warfare was primarily made up of simplistic nighttime sneak attacks to raid for slaves or treasure. This thesis ...
• “Go back to the capital and stay there”: the mining industry’s resistance to regulatory reform in British Columbia 1972-2005 

  Addie, Sean C. (2018-01-19)

  The Barrett (1972-1975) and Harcourt-Clark (1991-2001) New Democratic Party (NDP) governments attempted to redefine their relationship with the mining industry by changing the regulatory structures that governed mining in ...

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