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Multiform Arguments in the Historiography of Individualism in Pre-Modern Europe
(2019-03-05)This dissertation argues that we can have a better, more effective illustrated historiography; that we can construct and communicate historical arguments that combine words and images, considering clear nomenclature, ... -
Real Rock: Authenticity and Popular Music in Canada, 1984-1994
(2019-03-05)This dissertation investigates the production and reception of English-Canadian rock music sound recordings, from 1984 to 1994, in relation to mutually constitutive understandings of race, ability, gender, sexuality, class, ... -
Meet Me at Sanborns: Labor, Leisure, Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Mexico
(2019-03-05)This dissertation is a cultural history about Sanborns, a Mexican business that began as a drugstore in 1903. It continues into the present as a national chain of restaurants and department stores owned by the Mexican ... -
For The Good of Franco-Ontarians: Le Droit's Editorials, 1913-1933
(2018-11-21)In 1912 the Ontario government tabled Regulation 17 to severely limit teaching in French in provincial schools. Franco-Ontarians launched the newspaper Le Droit in March, 1913 to defeat the measure and protect minority ... -
The Science of Settler Colonialism: A Canadian History of the Thrifty Gene Hypothesis
(2018-08-27)This dissertation interrogates the history of the thrifty gene hypothesis, or the idea that Indigenous bodies are genetically predisposed to type-II diabetes. Though the hypothesis has been rejected by the scientific ... -
"Family is Really All Over The Place:" Ethnic Identity Formation Within A Transnational Network
(2018-05-28)This dissertation explores the process of ethnic identity formation in immigrants from the Campania region of Italy who settled in Ontario (Canada) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) after the Second World War. It centres on the ... -
Toronto the Gay: The Formation of a Queer Counterpublic in Public Drinking Spaces, 1947-1981
(2018-05-28)This dissertation examines the development of a queer counterpublic in Torontos post-war taverns and cocktail lounges, which were overseen by a relatively moderate provincial licensing authority. In the absence of homophile ... -
The Art of Sharing: The Richer Provinces Versus the Poorer Provinces Since Confederation
(2018-05-28)This thesis examines the social and political history of equalization, which is the federal program that allows all provinces to provide reasonably comparable levels of services for reasonably comparable levels of taxation. ... -
Gendered Justice: Women Workers, Gender, and Master and Servant Law in England, 1700-1850
(2018-05-28)As England industrialized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, employment relationships continued to be governed, as they had been since the Middle Ages, by master and servant law. This dissertation is the first ... -
'A Flag that Knows No Colour Line': Aboriginal Veteranship in Canada, 1914-1939
(2018-03-01)Historians have rightly considered the period from 1914 to 1939 as the time when Canadian Indigenous soldiers and veterans of the First World War faced unique challenges because of their legal status as Indians. But their ... -
Au nom du Bon Dieu et du Buffalo: Metis Lived Catholicism on the Northern Plains
(2018-03-01)This dissertation argues that Metis lived Catholicism was a tool of identity formation, resistance to colonialism, and political action among bison hunters of the northern plains in the long nineteenth century. The Catholicity ... -
White, Unwed Mother: The Adoption Mandate in Postwar Canada
(2017-07-27)The white adoption mandate was a process of interrelated institutional power systems which, together with socio-cultural norms, ideals of gender heteronormativity, and emerging sociological and psychoanalytic theories, ... -
Remaking Downtown Toronto: Politics, Development, and Public Space on Yonge Street, 1950-1980
(2017-07-27)This study explores the history of Torontos iconic downtown Yonge Street and the people who contested its future, spanning a period from the 1950s through to 1980 when the street was seldom out of the news. Through detailed ... -
Canada's Greek Moment: Transnational Politics, Activists, and Spies During the Long Sixties
(2017-07-27)This dissertation examines Greek immigrant homeland politics during the period of Greeces military dictatorship, 1967 to 1974, in Toronto and Montreal. It carefully considers the internal dynamics of anti-junta activism ... -
"Enough is Enough": The Right to Privacy Committee and Bathhouse Raids in Toronto, 1978-83
(2017-07-27)On Thursday February 5th, 1981, 200 agents from the Metropolitan Toronto Police raided four of the citys gay bathhouses. Codenamed Operation Soap, 286 men were charged with the criminal offense of being found in a common ... -
"Who/If/When to Marry, It's a Choice": A History of Forced Marriage in Canada, 1948-2008
(2017-07-27)This study of the regulation of marriage without consent provides irrefutable evidence of the longstanding history and persistence of forced marriages in Canada. Between 1948 and 2008, profound changes took place in the ... -
"Girl You Better Apply to Teachers' College": The History of Black Women Educators in Ontario, 1940s - 1980s
(2017-07-27)Girl You Better Apply to Teachers College examines the role of black women educators in Ontario from the 1940s to the 1980s. In an attempt to contribute to historical analysis on black identity, citizenship and racial ... -
Medical Practitioners and the Colonial Project: Medicine, Public Hygiene, and the Contested Re-Colonization of Sao Tome and Principe, 1850-1926
(2017-07-27)My dissertation analyzes the role that medicine played in the re-colonization of So Tom and Prncipe from the mid-nineteenth century until 1926. Focusing in particular on the role that Portuguese medical practitioners assumed ... -
The Reluctant Stork: Science, Fertility, and the Family in Britain, 1943-1960
(2016-11-25)This dissertation is a story of ordinary people the heterosexual married couple, wanting to have a baby who were willing to seek out and undergo medical treatment in order to start a family. Yet, it is also the story of ... -
Intimate Communities. Honorific Statues and the Political Culture of the Cities of Africa Proconsularis in the First three Centuries CE
(2016-11-25)This dissertation argues that the inscriptions of honorific statues reveal a dynamic political culture in the cities of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis in the first three centuries CE. Although the known regulations ...
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