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Item A British history of India: philosophical commitments in James Mill's the history of British India(2000) Ferguson, Paul; Blue, GregoryThis thesis about James Mill's philosophical commitments in The History of British India gives a close analysis of the main themes in that work. It first traces the sources of his thought in the conjectural history of Dugald Stewart, the four-stages theory of Adam Ferguson and John Millar, and the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham. The influence of classical political economy developed by Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo is also examined. The analysis of Mill's text here focuses particularly on the relative importance of conjectural history and Utilitarianism in The History of British India, an issue that has animated much of the scholarship on this work in the last fifty years. This thesis argues that conjectural history plays a greater role in The History of British India than has been realized by scholars who have focused on the Utilitarian component. Mill's resultant Eurocentrism is also addressed.Item Representations in photography, a European cultural medium: the photography of Northwest Coast First Peoples in British Columbia, 1858-1890(1999) Lund, John D.; Blue, GregoryThis thesis is an analysis of European photography of Northwest Coast First Nations Peoples during the later half of the nineteenth century in British Columbia, 1860-1890. It analyses the photographic medium as a European development drawn out of the European realist and scientific positivist approach to the world, and the implications of photography as a technological medium. It looks at how the inherent aspects of photography affected both First Nations Peoples' responses to photography and the photographer, and at photographers' actions within the environment of the photographic medium and their use of the medium as a technological tool. The thesis will critique the predominate theme of analysing the photography of First Nations Peoples on the basis of their depiction of stereotypes in academic and popular literature. The dissemination of the photographs of First Nations Peoples and the Historian's role in that dissemination will also be considered.