Browsing History by Subject "History"
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"The Academy Award of Protest": Media, Cooptation, and Radical Identity in the Sixties
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)Through the 1960s and into the early 1970s, radicals in the New Left and the counterculture struggled with how to remain relevant and authentic in the face of skewed and selective mainstream media representation. They often ... -
After October: An Analysis of John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy after the Cuban Missile Crisis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-04)This thesis analyzes President John F. Kennedy’s articulation of foreign policy after the near nuclear confrontation in October 1962. This thesis finds that the Cuban Missile Crisis had a very profound effect on the ... -
All Roads Lead to Rome: Canada, the Freedom From Hunger Campaign, and the Rise of NGOs, 1960-1980
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-20)The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization’s Freedom From Hunger Campaign was a world wide campaign to raise awareness of the problem of hunger and malnutrition and possible solutions to that problem. The Campaign ... -
Animosity, Ambivalence and Co-operation: Manifestations of heterogeneous German Identities in the Kitchener-Waterloo area during and after the Second World War.
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Much has been written about how the city of Berlin, Ontario – long a centre of Germanic industry and culture in Canada –changed its name to Kitchener in 1916 in the face of anti-German sentiments. Studies by Geoffrey Hayes ... -
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 ... -
Boston Divided
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)In 1974 Boston, Massachusetts was forced to confront its civil rights violations. In the case of Morgan v. Hennigan, Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. found the city of Boston guilty of intentionally segregating its public schools ... -
Bourassa’s War: Henri Bourassa and the First World War
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-26)This dissertation examines the perspective of French Canadian nationalist Henri Bourassa during the First World War from 1914-1918. Bourassa was one of the best-known voices rejecting the war’s purpose and value in Canada. ... -
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, ... -
Canadian Newspapers and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919: A Study of English-Language Media Opinion
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-16)This thesis is a study of English-language media opinion in relation to Canada’s involvement in the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Using The News Record, The Globe and the Manitoba Free Press, this thesis will examine ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Catching the Public Eye: The Body, Space, and Social Order in 1920s Canadian Visual Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-05)In the cultural upheaval of the 1920s, Canadians became particularly invested in looking at and debating women’s images in public. This dissertation looks at how English-Canadians debated, accepted, and challenged modernity ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ... -
Confronting Hitler's Legacy: Canadian Jews and Early Holocaust Discourse, 1933-1956
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-19)This dissertation examines Canadian Jewish thought from the Nazi period through to the immediate postwar era regarding the Nazis’ persecution and murder of European Jewry. It challenges the widely accepted position that ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...