• Turning the tide: clams and colonialism in the Salish Sea, 1925-1994 

  Lyall, Gordon Robert (2022-04-28)

  Featuring an ethnohistory of two Coast Salish communities — the Suquamish Tribe in Washington State and the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation in British Columbia — this dissertation is a transborder study of Indigenous shellfish harvesting ...
• An “empire” without imperialism? A study of the Soviet-colonial dialectic from the October Revolution to its defeat 

  Strandlund, Tyson Riel (2021-10-22)

  An analysis of Soviet history and political thought in the context of imperialism and colonialism This study attempts to clarify problems with dominant liberal narratives and historiography relating to the Soviet Union, ...
• Living feminism and leaving Catholicism in Victoria, BC since the 1960s 

  Greenup, Erica (2021-09-22)

  Since the 1960s, religious adherence in Canada has declined with ‘no religion’ slowly taking its place. Although British Columbia has been less religious than the rest of Canada since its early settler days, the currents ...
• Beasts in the Garden City: animals, humans, and settlement on Canada's west coast 

  Cunningham, Tim (2021-09-08)

  This thesis examines the numerous roles that nonhumans (and especially livestock) played in the creation, maintenance, and reproduction of settler space in the colonial city of Victoria, British Columbia, and details the ...
• “Man’s Reasonable Companion:” Scottish Enlightenment rhetoric and female education discourse in Revolutionary America 

  Flechl, Katelyn (2021-09-02)

  The impact of Enlightenment rhetoric on Revolutionary conceptions of gender has been a topic of historiographical debate. This thesis examines how Scottish Enlightenment stadial views of progress influenced early American ...
• Rape in Revolutionary America, 1760-1815 

  Snidal, Michelle (2021-08-30)

  Rape had an indelible effect on the American Revolutionary era. Using trial testimonies and depositions, newspapers, and literary sources, this thesis argues that there was a level of continuity between peacetime and wartime ...
• Sex crime appeals at the Parlement of Paris, 1564-1655 

  Semmens, Justine (2021-08-20)

  This dissertation examines the intersection of the prosecution of criminal justice, sexual morality and the family at the parlement of Paris, which was the highest court of appeal in France, during the height of its power ...
• The uniform of the Lower Fraser Fishing Authority: case study of a material artifact 

  Eccleston, Allison (2021-07-29)

  This thesis uses the uniform of the Stó:lō First Nation’s Lower Fraser Fishing Authority as a cultural, material item to inform and discuss Indigenous-Crown relationships, the history of the community the object belongs ...
• The Vancouver Island brewing industry: 1858 - 1917 

  Evans, Gregory Mark (2021-06-08)

  From 1858 to 1917, Vancouver Island's brewing industry prospered in a community that, especially before the coming of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1886, was small and relatively isolated. Nevertheless, the Island industry ...
• Exhibiting the Nazi past: museums, memory, and public history in Berlin 

  Semmens, Kristin Anne (2021-05-28)

  Since the re-unification of Germany, historians have written numerous books about reworking, reconstructing and rethinking the country's Nazi past. These works do not consider the way in which Germany's institutions of ...
• "In the best interest of the Indians": an ethnohistory of the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs, 1897-1913 

  Vogt, David (2021-01-29)

  Drawing on insights from recent ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies of bureaucracy by scholars such as Akhil Gupta and Ann-Laura Stoler, this dissertation turns the ethnohistorical lens back upon the colonial state ...
• George Padmore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and metropolitan perceptions of Nazism/Fascism and colonialism/imperialism in the 1930s-40s 

  Huijsmans, Matthew Max Anthony (2021-01-28)

  The degree to which Nazi Germany and the other Axis powers can be understood within the framework of the European nineteenth century colonial/imperial projects has, in recent years, been a controversial topic in historiography. ...
• The history and politics of Taiwan's February 28 Incident, 1947-2008 

  Kuo, Yen-Kuang (2021-01-13)

  Taiwan’s February 28 Incident happened in 1947 as a set of popular protests against the postwar policies of the Nationalist Party, and it then sparked militant actions and political struggles of Taiwanese but ended with ...
• Bridging in Shanghai’s commercial revolution: compradors, bureaucratic merchants, and returned overseas businesspeople as capitalist middlemen in Late Qing and Early Republican China 

  Gentz, Frederick (2021-01-04)

  Chinese compradors, official managers, and overseas Chinese capitalists have received scholarly attention of late with special notice to studying their contributions to China’s industrial modernization. This thesis shifts ...
• Rising and remembering: Ktunaxa history and settler mythology in the East Kootenay 

  MacPherson, Sean (2020-09-08)

  This thesis is a critical history about Cranbrook BC, the town where I grew up. It explores a historical origin story that historians have called the ‘Kootenai Uprising,’ as well as the annual regional holiday that ...
• Officers and gentlemen? Class, values, and the British Army's Officer Corps, 1871-1901 

  Youmans, Gregory (2020-08-31)

  This thesis examines the values and attitudes of the British Army’s officer corps during the period from 1871 to 1901, and how these values were linked to those of the British landed classes. Through studying the memoirs ...
• An unjust execution: a case study of Inouye Kanao, the Kamloops Kid 

  Fitzgerald, Kyla (2020-08-31)

  This thesis examines the legal case of Inouye Kanao, a second-generation Japanese Canadian who was executed for high treason in August 1947 in Hong Kong. In this thesis, I trace not only Inouye's legal case, but also his ...
• "National housekeeping": rethinking nationalism through the Irish Housewives Association 

  King, Georgia (2020-08-31)

  While Ireland remained neutral throughout the Second World War, it was not spared from the economic and social consequences of the conflict. This time in Ireland is known as ‘the Emergency’ and shortages of essential goods ...
• Arc of the Covenant: Trinity Western University's Community Covenant as a response to secularization 

  Thombs, Paige (2020-08-23)

  Trinity Western University has come under fire for its Community Covenant which defines marriage as between one man and one woman. A look at Trinity's previous codes of conduct show an institution resisting the tides of ...
• From spaces of mercy to sites of sanctuary: a historical survey of Canada’s federal prison libraries 

  Ramprashad, Oakley (2020-08-05)

  Since the inception of the first modern Canadian carceral structure in 1835, the prison library has existed. The condition of the prison libraries in Canadian federal institutions, as well as the diversity and quantity ...

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