• 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 ...
• 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 ...

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