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Conservatism and British imperialism in India: finding the local roots of empire in Britain and India
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)This thesis explores the importance of political conservatism in shaping the ideological and political foundations of British imperialism in India between 1857 and 1914. From the Indian Revolt to the rise of Indian ... -
Content Selection and Curation for Web Archiving: The Gatekeepers vs. the Masses
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-06)Any preservation effort must begin with an assessment of what content to preserve, and web archiving is no different. There have historically been two answers to the question "what should we archive?" The Internet Archive's ... -
Counting and Mining Research Data with Unix
(The Editorial Board of the Programming Historian, 2014-09-20)This lesson will look at how research data, when organised in a clear and predictable manner, can be counted and mined using the Unix shell. The lesson builds on the lessons “Preserving Your Research Data: Documenting and ... -
Crafting the Modern Woman in Azerbaijan: Muslim Women, the State, and Modernity, 1900–1939
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-26)This study examines the little-known history of cultural transformation initiated by Azerbaijani reformers between the 1850s and 1930s. Relying on a unique body of sources, which include handwritten manuscripts, literary ... -
Creating a Public Secondary School Program for a Religious and Cultural Minority: An Innovative Collaboration with Conservative Mennonites, 1996-2012
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-31)This thesis presents a historical review of the interactions between an Ontario public school board and three conservative Mennonite church groups between 1996 and 2012 to found a high school program that accommodated the ... -
Crossing Borders: The Toronto Anti-Draft Programme and the Canadian Anti-Vietnam War Movement
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-31)This study examines how the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme (TADP) assisted American war resisters who came to Canada in response to the Vietnam War. It illustrates how the TADP responded to political decisions in Canada and ... -
'Damned If They Do And Damned If They Don't': The Inferiority Complex, Nationalism, and Maclean's Music Coverage, 1967-1995
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-19)This thesis critically analyses music coverage in Maclean’s between 1967-1995, and reveals that the magazine continually stressed Canadian music as inferior to that produced by foreign artists. Only during times of intense ... -
Death, Divorce, and Desertion: Strategies of Survival in Abusive Marriage in Seventeenth Century England
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-02)This thesis demonstrates how seventeenth century English women in abusive marriages employed limited survival strategies to separate from their violent husbands. It explores the ecclesiastical and magisterial court systems ... -
Decolonization, Indigenous Internationalism, and the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)This dissertation investigates the history of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) and the broader movement of Indigenous internationalism. It argues that Indigenous internationalists were inspired by the process ... -
Desiderata for Exploratory Search Interfaces to Web Archives in Support of Scholarly Activities
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-06)Web archiving initiatives around the world capture ephemeral web content to preserve our collective digital memory. In this paper, we describe initial experiences in providing an exploratory search interface to web archives ... -
Does History Matter? Pioneering Research on Canada's Attitudes Toward Bygone Days
(The LIterary Review of Canada, 2014-05)A book review of 'Canadians and their past' by Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen, Jocelyn Létourneau, Delphin Muise, David Northrup and Peter Seixas. -
Dum Vivimus Vivamus: The Lost Identity of the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute Second World War Dead
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-09)This thesis examines the adolescent and wartime experiences of the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute Second World War dead and how they were commemorated after the war. The memorial plaques on the walls of the ... -
Each Woman Dies Her Death A Thousand Times: Voices Of Female Experience In The Holocaust
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-16)While the experiences of Holocaust victims are well studied in history, the nuances of female-centric elements of these experiences have been under-represented in Holocaust historiography until relatively recently. While ... -
The Evolution of White Racism and its Impacts on Black Society in America Today
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-26)This thesis examines the historical evolution of racial hierarchies and white racism in American society, and in particular how these ideological frameworks have impacted Black American society. By utilizing a case study ... -
Evolving Priorities: Canadian Oil Policy and the United States in the years leading up to the Oil Crisis of 1973
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-20)This study investigates the relationship between the oil industries of Canada and the United States in the years leading up to the 1973 oil crisis. Shortly after the Second World War it became apparent that American ... -
An Examination of the Visions of Ursula Jost in the Context of Early Anabaptism and Late Medieval Christianity
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-04)In early 1530, the lay preacher and recent Anabaptist convert Melchior Hoffman published a series of seventy-seven visions by the Strasbourg butcher’s wife Ursula Jost. In its own day this series of visions, which is the ... -
The Fantastical World of Playboy
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)While Playboy was published in the early Fifties its success is arguably reflected through the longevity and survival of the name and logo; as the Playboy Bunny logo and the symbol of Hugh Hefner (specifically dressed in ... -
Fathers, Sons, and Hippies: Changes in American Blues in the 1960s and its Connection to the Counterculture
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-05)This thesis examines the changing landscape of American blues music in the 1960s as well as the blues’ connection to the 1960s counterculture. This paper makes frequent use of oral histories from musicians and counterculture ... -
Finding Community in the Ruins of GeoCities: Distantly Reading a Web Archive
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015-10)This paper provides a brief overview of my work with the GeoCities web archive. Asking the question of “can we find community,” I use it as a case study to explain various methods for distantly reading web archives -
Finding the Ideal Nesting Place: Chinese Encounters with Indigenous and Euro-Canadian Peoples in British Columbia, 1858-1947
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)Since the conclusion of the First Opium War (1842) when the ports of China were forced open by the British, adventurous Chinese emigrants traded their dismal prospects at home for British Columbia—a foreign land of ...