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In Protection of No Woman: Consent, Illegitimacy, and Gender-Based Violence in Early Modern Somerset, 1600-1699
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-29)Over the course of the seventeenth century, 1298 women came before the Quarter Sessions to secure financial resources for the upkeep of their unborn children. These interactions with the legal system highlight the ways in ... -
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 ... -
Indictments, Dismissals, and Obstruction – Republika Srpska: 1992 - 2011
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-10)This work details the transformation of the Republika Srpska from its foundation in 1992 to the election of Milorad Dodik as the entity's president in 2011. It covers the bloody birth of the RS and the role of its founders ... -
The Indigenous Ainu of Japan and the "Northern Territories" Dispute
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-19)This thesis re-examines the territorial dispute between Japan and Russia, the so-called “Northern Territories” issue, through a reinterpretation of the role of the indigenous Ainu of Japan. An exploration of Ainu history ... -
Industrial Waste Management and Urban Environments in Medieval England, 1300 - 1600
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)This paper demonstrates how key industries impacted urban environments in late medieval England from 1300-1600CE through an examination of city laws, ordinances, and rulings. It focuses on the municipalities of Bristol, ... -
Intelligentia Spiritualis: Platonism, the Latin Polemical Tradition, and the Renaissance Approach to the Prophetic Sense of History
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-25)This study sheds light on key figures and trends in the medieval Latin West that influenced the intellectual lives of the humanist theologians Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–94), specifically ... -
Introduction to the Bash Command Line
(The Editorial Board of the Programming Historian, 2014-09-20)This lesson uses a Unix shell, which is a command-line interpreter that provides a user interface for the Unix operating system and for Unix-like systems. This lesson will cover a small number of basic commands. By the end ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
John F. Kennedy & the Ascendancy of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-01)The formation of a coherent counterinsurgency policy in the United States is often attributed to the administration of President John F. Kennedy. Indeed, through his own personal fascination and promotion of the subject, ... -
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 ... -
"The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity": The Politics of Immigration in Postwar Canada, 1945-1963.
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)This thesis examines immigration policy in postwar Canada. Its focus is on the changes to immigration policy implemented between 1945 and 1963 by the governments of Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent, and John Diefenbaker, ... -
Letters from the Boiler House: Conflict and Communication in a Second World War Canadian Internment Camp
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-30)In March of 1941, two members of the Veterans Guard of Canada were court martialled for conduct “to the prejudice of good order and Military Discipline.” Their crime: passing letters, “illicit correspondence,” between a ... -
“Lifting As We Climb”: The Emergence of an African-Canadian Civil Society in Southern Ontario (1840-1901)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-18)This dissertation examines Black civil society organizations that brought the African-Canadian community closer to their rights as citizens of Canada West from 1840-1901. Past scholars have applied the concept of civil ... -
THE LIMITS TO INFLUENCE: THE CLUB OF ROME AND CANADA, 1968 TO 1988
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This dissertation is about influence which is defined as the ability to move ideas forward within, and in some cases across, organizations. More specifically it is about an extraordinary organization called the Club of ... -
THE LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM IN ONTARIO 1851-1985: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis is a study of the changing model of the local history museum in Ontario, Canada and the consequential changing interpretations of the past in these institutions. <br /><br /> Beginning in 1879, local history ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Lost in the Infinite Archive: The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-03-14)Contemporary and future historians need to grapple with and confront the challenges posed by web archives. These large collections of material, accessed either through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine or through other ... -
“Lucky that East Germany also exists”: Yugoslavia between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (1955-1968)
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-14)This dissertation explores the relations between Yugoslavia and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the period between 1955 and 1968. This is the first analysis using sources ...