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Looking Wide? Imperialism, Internationalism, and the Boy Scout Movement, 1918-1939
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)The Boy Scout Movement is one of the most influential youth movements of the twentieth century. Begun in the context of Edwardian imperialism as a foil to fears of racial decline, the movement’s militarism became a liability ... -
Understanding the London Corresponding Society: A Balancing Act between Adversaries Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)This thesis examines the intellectual foundation of the London Corresponding Society’s (LCS) efforts to reform Britain's Parliamentary democracy in the 1790s. The LCS was a working population group fighting for universal ... -
Searching For Answers: A Study of the Socio-Economic Issues Affecting African American Youth in the 1980s and 1990s
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)The central goal of this thesis is to explore several popular "talking points" that were believed to relate to high crime rates amongst African American male youth. I argue that in many instances, issues relating to ... -
Mining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Rethinking the Historians’ Toolkit
(Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 2013-05-01)“Mining the Internet Graveyard” argues that the advent of massive quantity of born-digital historical sources necessitates a rethinking of the historians’ toolkit. The contours of a third wave of computational history are ... -
‘Concerned not only with relief’: UNRRA’s work rehabilitating the Displaced Persons in the American zone of occupation in Germany, 1945-1947
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)The purpose of the dissertation is to further our knowledge of the process of normalization in the displaced person (DP) camps in the American zone of occupation in Germany after the Second World War. The United Nations ... -
Le passage du Canada français à la Francophonie mondiale : mutations nationales, démocratisation et altruisme au mouvement Richelieu, 1944 – 1995
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)This thesis argues that French Canada did not simply fragment into regional and provincial identities during the 1960s and 1970s, but was also kept afloat by the simultaneous emergence of a francophone supranational ... -
Freedom's Voices: Czech and Slovak Immigration to Canada during the Cold War
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-04)During the Cold War, approximately 36,000 persons claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship upon entering Canada. A defining characteristic of this postwar migration of predominantly ethnic Czechs and Slovaks ... -
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 ... -
Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997–2010
(University of Toronto Press, 2013-12)It all seems so orderly and comprehensive. Instead of firing up the microfilm reader to navigate the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star, one needs only to log into online newspaper databases. A keyword search, for a ... -
The Canadian War Crimes Liaison Detachment - Far East and the Prosecution of Japanese "Minor" War Crimes
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-02)The members of the Canadian War Crimes Liaison Detachment – Far East travelled across the Pacific in April 1946 to participate in “minor” war crimes trials in Hong Kong and Japan. The assignment stemmed from the harrowing ... -
Open Data’s Potential for Political History
(Canadian Parliamentary Review, 2014)The recent trend of “open government” initiatives has provided an exciting new source of material for digital humanities researchers. Large datasets allow these scholars to engage in “distant reading” exercises to provide ... -
Three Minutes to Midnight: Civil Defense in the Late Cold War Period
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-20)This thesis examines civil defense in the United States under the Nixon, Carter and Reagan administrations. Throughout the late Cold War period civil defense policy planners employed a philosophy of dual-use. The Defense ... -
“They Built a Kingdom”: Developing a Free Reformed Church Community in Southern Ontario, 1950-1976
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-29)This thesis investigates the establishment and development of a religious community of immigrants from the Netherlands to Canada, whose lives centered around a small denomination called the Free Reformed Churches of North ... -
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. -
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 ... -
"A New Kind of War": The Vietnam War and the Nuremberg Principles, 1964-1968
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-19)This thesis explores what Telford Taylor called the “ethos of Nuremberg” and how it shaped antiwar resistance during the Vietnam War in the United States. The Vietnam War was a monumental event in the twentieth century and ... -
The Cold War and Indigenous People
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-18)The second half of the twentieth century saw dramatic state movements and expansions around the world into Indigenous people’s territories. These state expansions incorporated more of the earth than any time in the past ... -
Men against Power: Antistatism, Grassroots Organizing, and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)This dissertation examines the history of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) from its founding in 1967 through to the early 2000s. Whereas past scholars have interpreted VVAW’s activism as motivated by the therapeutic ... -
The Mind of Modernity: Canadian Bilateral Foreign Assistance to India, 1950-60
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)This dissertation examines the history of Canada’s early bilateral foreign assistance program to India between 1950 and 1960. With Canada’s decision to join the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic Development in South ... -
In the Shadows of the Sea: the Destruction and Recovery of Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1940-1948
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)This study explores the wartime experiences of the rural Dutch province of Zeeland from the German invasion in May 1940 to 1948 by a close reading of Dutch newspapers as well as Dutch government and Allied sources. It seeks ...