• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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