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Abandoning Private Femininity: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, the 1784 Westminster Election, and Its Implications for the History of Women in Politics
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-26) McManus, Madison Summer; Gorman, Dan
My thesis argues that women had a powerful influence on politics long before the fight for suffrage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and that the focus in political history on “high politics” has not allowed for women’s less formal involvement in politics to be recognized as it should be. I discuss the socio-political culture of eighteenth-century England, including the nature of the role of women in politics and how it aligns with the social expectations of women during the eighteenth century. I analyze the impact of Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire, on the 1784 Westminster election, as well as her prominent role within the Whig party. Finally, I discuss the rise of the newspaper press’s influence on politics in the eighteenth century and how its harsh criticisms of Georgiana played a role in not only causing Georgiana to take a step back from politics, but also reduced the visible activity of women in politics for the next hundred years.
Nationalism in Ghana After 1945: Causes, Actors, and Its Impact on Ghana's Decolonisation Drive.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-23) Paddy, Emmanuel; Gorman, Dan
The post- Second World War (WW II) period witnessed an increase in nationalist activities, and activism in Asia and Africa which resulted in the independence of most the colonies in these continents. The declaration of the Atlantic Charter in 1941 which spelt out the right to self-determination contributed immensely to this activism: the charter stated inter alia that it respects the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self -government restored to those who have been forcefully deprived of them. Indigenous activists and writers in America after the Second World War also encountered ideas about global decolonization and engaged in a process of depicting Canada as a colonizing state, a historical narrative that had not been popularly accepted at that point…, what was later named ‘Red Power’ was a framework that interrogate the specificity settler-colonisation locality and Canadian government policy using globally circulating ideas about decolonization and anti-racism. Thus, the activism and nationalism during and after the WW II against all forms of colonialism was not only prevalent and ubiquitous in Africa and Asia, but also, it was a common phenomenon among the Indigenous people in America and Canada too. The WW II created a global political, economic and social conditions in which both the European colonial masters, and the colonies in Africa in particular responded to those conditions to promote their interest. United States of America (USA) and Russia also responded to the political situation of the world after the WW II which culminated in the Cold War. In effect, the post-WW II created global wind of change, and influenced the internal political, economic and social conditions in both the colonies and the Western Powers. However, there were varying degrees of radical response to the internal conditions of the African colonies under the grip of colonial rule of the European powers after the WW II. Ghana was the first black African country south of the Sahara to gain political independence. It is therefore imperative to interrogate the combining effects of post-WW II political, social, and economic conditions in Ghana, then called Gold Coast, and the Ghanaian Nationalist activities on the decolonization drive of Ghana. This essay examines the interplay of the Ghanaian Nationalists and the post-WW II internal Conditions in Gold Coast, and to a lesser extent post-WW II external factors and how they carved out Ghana’s road to political independence.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children: An Analysis Surrounding Jamaica, 1800-1852 with Case Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-13) Amodeo, Allyson; Gorman, Dan
This article traces the experiences of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) during the British slave trade between 1800-1852, while looking specifically at connections to Jamaica. The British set out to colonize, ‘civilize,’ and control Black parents, children, and bodies throughout Jamaica, as particularly shown through enslavement practices and governmental regulations implemented that impacted notions of safety, protection, and autonomy for Black families. Such practices and regulations changed and evolved as abolition, apprenticeship, and emancipation came into effect. Although the legal landscape was changing, the horrific systemic abuse against Black people remained the same. Yet, there is evidence that even within that broad system of British-implemented and enforced control, there were frequent moments of collective care, resistance, and bonds formed between both kin and fictive kin within Black communities. Although Empire, in general, tended to silence voices of the subaltern, and especially their children, this thesis explores the ways in which members of those communities shaped that control and fought to be heard.
Three Years and Two Continents Apart: A Comparative Study of the Great Sioux War and Anglo-Zulu War
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-26) Winter, Cameron; Gorman, Dan
In 1876 and 1879, the American and British armies suffered extremely similar disasters at, respectively, the Battles of the Little Bighorn and Isandlwana. Though these two colonial reversals have often been compared to one another in passing, no serious comparative work on them has been done. This paper aims to change that, while placing both battles within the larger frameworks of their respective wars and arguing that it was the similarities in American and British perceptions of their Indigenous foes that led to the defeats at the Little Bighorn and Isandlwana, as well as the other difficulties that both campaigns encountered. It will be argued that both the American and the British battleplans relied upon the assumption that their enemies would flee from an army of white men and planned accordingly, a belief that led to catastrophic reversals when the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Zulu instead took offensive action. Only by overcoming this detrimental prejudice and adjusting their plans accordingly were the colonial powers able to conquer their Indigenous enemies.

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