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The Colonial Economy: Prosperity and Depression in Kano Province of Northern Nigeria, 1899 1939
(2021-11-15)Kano and its environs came under British rule in the first years of the twentieth century. The British introduced new systems that dramatically transformed the direction of events and the way of life of the people. Scholars ... -
Ordinary Copts: Ecumenism, Activism and Belonging in North American Cities, 1954-1992
(2021-11-15)This dissertation takes the oral testimonies of immigrants as the point of departure and seeks to restore agency to modern Coptic Orthodox Christians as a heterogeneous group. It charts the everyday social relations, ... -
The Making of Iraqi Doctors: Reproduction in Medical Education in Modern Iraq, 1869-1959
(2021-11-15)The Making of Iraqi Doctors: Reproduction in Medical Education in Modern Iraq, 1869 - 1959 delves into the history of medical labour production in relation to state development in Iraq. This study begins with the Ottoman ... -
The Making of Quilengues: Violence, Enslavement and Resistance in the Interior of Benguela, 1600-1830
(2021-07-06)The Making of Quilengues: Violence, Enslavement and Resistance in the interior of Benguela, 1600-1830 is a history of small-scale societies in West Central Africa during the age of the Atlantic slave trade, starting with ... -
Children and Childhood in Wendat Society, 1600-1700
(2021-03-08)This dissertation examines Wendat childhood in the 17th century. Contrary to European expectations, Wendat child-rearing practices emphasized independence, empowerment, and respect for all individuals, encouraging children ... -
Urbem Hierusolymam delevit: The Arch of Titus in the Circus Maximus in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
(2021-03-08)The focus of this research project is the triumphal arch dedicated in 81 CE in the Vallis Murcia in Rome and commemorating the Flavian capture of Jerusalem. A comprehensive examination of the Arch of Titus in the Circus ... -
Good Friday on College Street: Urban Space and Changing Italian Identity
(2020-11-13)This dissertation examines the relationship between urban space and minority ethnic identity. It makes extensive use of oral history and a variety of archival documents including personal correspondence, photographs, parish ... -
The Impact of Cold War Events on Curriculum and Policies, and the Protection of Children in Postwar Ontario Education, 1948-1963
(2020-11-13)Between 1948 and 1963 Ontario educators and policy makers, at the school boards and within the Department of Education, confronted the challenge of how to educate students for a divided and dangerous Cold War world. That ... -
Mental Welfare: Voluntary Mental Health and Learning Disability Organizations in Britain, c. 1946-1959
(2020-08-11)This dissertation traces the trajectories of four British voluntary organizations working in the fields of mental health and learning disability in the late 1940s and 1950s: the National Association for Mental Health; the ... -
Taking a Ride on a Bumpy Road to Imagined Community - How Sub-Provincial Political Parties in Canada Became Vehicles to Pursue, Perform and Participate in Region-Making, 1967-1988
(2020-08-11)This dissertation explores an aspect of Canadian sub-provincial regionalism the creation of new political parties that either acted as primary vehicles for its expression or made pointed appeals to this form of regionalism ... -
"Here in the Queen's Territory, Every Man and Woman are Free": Slavery and the Lives of the Enslaved in Late Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone
(2020-08-11)In the late eighteenth century, the British colony of Sierra Leone was founded as a settlement for self-emancipated slaves from the American South via Nova Scotia. Yet, the practice of slavery persisted in the colony and ... -
Comfortable, Honest and Unpretentious: A Cultural History of Canadian Arts and Crafts Movement
(2020-05-11)The arrival of the Arts and Crafts Movement into Canada at the end of the nineteenth century intersected with several interrelated developments. Art, architecture, education, and the process of professionalization, were ... -
Welcome to the Terrordome: Race, Power and the Rise of American Rap Music, 1979-1995
(2020-05-11)Welcome to the Terrordome examines how late twentieth century rappers used culture as a critical and politically useful battleground to unmask the modes and mechanisms of a persistent and haunting coloniality in the ... -
Maintenant nous te parlons, ne dedaigne pas nous ecouter Petitions et Relation Speciale entre les Premieres Nations et la Couronne au Canada, 1840-1860
(2020-05-11)This thesis analyzes the concept of the special relationship between First Nations and the Crown through the evolution of political relations between the colonial state and Indigenous communities in the Province of Canada ... -
Anishinaabe Treaty-Making in the 18th-and-19th-Century Northern Great Lakes: From Shared Meanings to Epistemological Chasms
(2020-05-11)This dissertation looks at the evolution of Anishinaabe treaty-making process via the diplomatic language and implements used (wampum, calumet pipes, medals, clothing, texts, and paper). Anishinaabe people include the ... -
"The world outside these walls": Toronto's Provincial Lunatic Asylum in Context, 1830-1882
(2020-05-11)This dissertation explores the place of Torontos Provincial Lunatic Asylum within the broader social, cultural, and political landscape of nineteenth-century Ontario (Upper Canada). The development of the asylum in Upper ... -
Drowned: Anishinabek Economies and Resistance to Hydroelectric Development -in the Winnipeg River Drainage Basin, 1873-1975
(2020-05-11)In 1893 the Keewatin Lumber and Power Company planned the first hydroelectric generating station on the north shore of Lake of the Woods (near present-day Kenora, Ontario). Approximately fifty years later, federal officials ... -
When John-Boy Learned Sign Language: History and Disability on Walton's Mountain
(2019-11-22)This dissertation examines CBS Televisions historically-based drama The Waltons (1972-1981) as a case study in disability and American cultural history. Produced throughout the 1970s and the very early 1980s, but set in ... -
Homeland, Diasporas and Labour Networks: The Case of Kru Workers, 1792-1900
(2019-11-22)By the late eighteenth century, the ever-increasing British need for local labour in West Africa based on malarial, climatic, and manpower concerns led to a willingness of the British and Kru to experiment with free wage ... -
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, ...
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