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With Them And Against Them: Canada's Relations With Nicaragua, 1979-1990
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-02)Canada's relations with Nicaragua changed greatly during the 1980s after the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) came to power in a revolution which overthrew the Somoza dynasty. For the first few years of the ... -
To Heal the Nation: the Creation of President Ford's Clemency Program
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)The war in Vietnam divided America into two groups, those who supported the war and those who opposed. At wars end, the divisions did not disappear. Instead, the nation was split on the question of amnesty for draft and ... -
Canada's Hunt for the Harmsworth Technology and Nationalism (1934-1961)
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)Beginning in the 1940s, two Canadian families tried to challenge for the Harmsworth Trophy, symbol of international power-boating supremacy. Canada's Hunt for the Harmsworth follows first the Wilsons of Ingersoll Ontario, ... -
Nixonland Revisited: A History of Populist Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-22)The goal of this thesis was to validate journalist Rick Perlstein’s assertion in Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) that the foundational dialectic of the 1960s “has not yet ended.” ... -
Northern Vision: Northern Development during the Diefenbaker Era
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-19)At the inauguration of John G. Diefenbaker’s 1958 election campaign, the Prime Minister announced his ‘Northern Vision,’ a bold strategy to extend Canadian nationhood to the Arctic and develop its natural resources for the ... -
The Redevelopment of Canada and Japan’s Economic Relationship, 1945-1951: Canadian Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)Between 1921 to 1941, Canada and Japan were close trading partners. The end of World War II provided the two countries with the opportunity to resume their former economic relationship. However, Japan was a defeated ... -
Arboriculture and the Environment in Manosque, 1341 - 1404
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)This thesis uses records of criminal inquisitions from 1341 to 1404 to take up the question of medieval environmental consciousness. These records were created in the Provençal town of Manosque. The town’s region extended ... -
Prohibition, the Great War and Political Advocacy: The Wartime Campaign for Prohibition
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-18)Once a fundamental aspect of American life, by 1920 the 18th Amendment to the constitution prohibited consumption of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition challenged traditional dogmas and called into question what constituted ... -
Public Servants or Professional Alienists?: Medical Superintendents and the Early Professionalization of Asylum Management and Insanity Treatment in Upper Canada, 1840-1865
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)In nineteenth-century Upper Canada (Ontario), professional work was a primary means by which men could improve their social status and class position. As increasing numbers of men sought entry into these learned occupations, ... -
Midwives, Medicine, and the Reproductive Female Body in Manosque, 1289-1500
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)This paper examines midwives and their practice in the criminal and notarial records from the later-medieval Provencal town of Manosque. This town counted amongst its 5,000 Jewish and Christian inhabitants a relatively ... -
Jane Fonda's Antiwar Activism and The Myth of Hanoi Jane
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)This thesis examines Jane Fonda’s antiwar activism during the Vietnam War, focusing on the period from late 1969 through 1973. Her early activism was characterized by frequent protests against the war, speeches at antiwar ... -
“New York is a State of Mind”: Race, Marginalization, and Cultural Expression in Postwar New York City
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-02)While the urban crisis debate has expanded to examine a variety of American cities, the general exploration of how African Americans have responded to, and challenged, racial and urban inequality remains focused on grassroots ... -
Italiani Brava Gente? The Italian occupation of southeastern France in the Second World War, 1940-1943
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Many academic works have focused on the German occupation of France in the Second World War, both from the perspective of the occupiers and the occupied. Only a few monographs however had dealt so far with the Italian ... -
“We are wards of the Crown and cannot be regarded as full citizens of Canada”: Native Peoples, the Indian Act and Canada’s War Effort
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)The First World War left few untouched on Canada’s Native reserves: many councils donated money to war funds, thousands of men enlisted and their families sought support from the Military and war-specific charities, and ... -
Grappling on the Grain Belt: Wrestling in Manitoba to 1931
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-10)Abstract “Grappling on the Grain Belt: Wrestling in Manitoba to 1931,” explores the history of wrestling in the geographic region now demarcated as Manitoba, from the pre-Confederation period to the Great Depression, with ... -
The Long Reach of War: Canadian Records Management and the Public Archives
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)This thesis explores why the Public Archives of Canada, which was established in 1872, did not have the full authority or capability to collect the government records of Canada until 1966. The Archives started as an ... -
Finland in Crisis: Finnish Relations with the Western Democracies, 1939-1941
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-01)This thesis examines Finland’s relations with Britain and the United States from 1939-1941. During this period, Finland engaged in two wars against the Soviet Union. In 1939-1940 Finland defended itself against a Soviet ... -
Automated Downloading with Wget
(The Editorial Board of the Programming Historian, 2012-06-27)Wget is a useful program, run through your computer’s command line, for retrieving online material. It can be useful in the following situations: Retrieving or mirroring (creating an exact copy of) an entire website. ... -
Governing the “Government Party”: Liberal Party of Canada Leadership Conventions of 1948, 1958 and 1968
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)During the twentieth century, as Canadian voters began to associate the brand of their major political parties with the characteristics of their leaders, the Liberal Party of Canada’s leadership races evolved into events ... -
Cannibalizing The System: The Film Noir Backlash in Hollywood
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)The central goal of this thesis is to resituate the development of film noir within the context of the Hollywood studio system that created it. I argue that under the ‘factory’ conditions of the studio’s working environment, ...