• "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 ...
• “Arbitrary and cruel punishments:” Trends in Royal Navy Courts martial, 1860-1869 

  Johnston, Andrew (2020-07-29)

  Britain’s Royal Navy of the nineteenth century was the unquestioned master of the world’s oceans, having won such standing after over a century of near-uninterrupted warfare. However, while the strategies, tactics and ...
• The Aborigines' Protection Society as an imperial knowledge network: the writing and representation of black South African letters to the APS, 1879-1888 

  Reid, Darren (2020-06-28)

  This thesis presents a case study of letters written by black South Africans to the Aborigines' Protection Society (APS) between 1879-1888. Recognizing that previous histories of the APS have been based primarily on British ...
• Sir John A. Macdonald’s influence on the development of Canadian Indigenous Policy, 1844-1876 

  Taekema, Sarah (2020-06-05)

  John A. Macdonald was not only Canada’s first Prime Minister; he played a significant role in framing much of Canada’s early “Indian policy” including legislation that was incorporated into the Indian Act (1876) which is ...
• 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 ...

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