History Theses

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Enabling settler citizens: Disability, age, public health, and settler colonialism in northern Ontario, 1876-1951
2023-04-24
Autogestion: Workers, masses, and new political subjects in France, 1970–78
2022-12-01
The state of workers: Labour protection versus workers' individualities, 1949–1966
2022-11-04
The anti-conscription movement in BC and its contribution to the labour revolt of 1918-19
2022-08-30
How to survive in Wuhan: Household coping strategies in China's socialist planned economy, 1961–1965
2022-08-03
"For king and fatherland": Collaboration and genocide in wartime Yugoslavia
2022-03-25
The Real Pimpernel Smith: Leslie Howard and his contribution to the British War Effort, 1939-1943
2021-12-15
Overseas connections as a blessing: Goods distribution and survival strategies in Mao's China, 1957–1962
2021-08-24
"We were not playing games": Transnational moral policing in 1970s Vancouver
2021-08-16
Leisure, lifestyle, and youth subcultures in China, 1949–1987
2021-07-26
Blueprints of power: Roman statecraft and politics in Konstantinos VII's "Book of Ceremonies"
2021-07-19
Notions of violence and ethnic cleansing on the eve of the first world war: The Balkan wars of 1912-13
2021-07-02
Bandits, neighbours, Japanese soldiers: Security threats and survival strategies in Taishan and Kaiping villages, 1937–1949
2020-12-15
"My Canada is yet unborn": Settler identity & ideology in the life & works of A.M. Stephen
2020-11-18
The discreet charm of the petty bourgeoisie: Marx, Proudhon, and the critique of political economy
2020-09-23
Charity schools and society in nineteenth-century Ba County
2020-08-20
Dumping like a state: An environmental history of the City of Vancouver Landfill in Delta, 1958–1981
2020-08-04
Choosing “Hell”: Family migrants from Shandong and Manchukuo’s food rationing system in Harbin, 1942-1944
2020-04-17
Academic Philosophy, the University, and the Politics of Knowledge in Modern Iran
2020-03-25
"Negotiating Fort Nisqually: Reconfiguring the social and environmental landscapes of the South Salish Sea, 1833-1858"
2020-03-24
“When Blue is Green”: Towards a history of workers as environmentalists in British Columbia and beyond
2019-12-03
Monuments and the margins: Old age and memories of Scottish Jacobitism in the epitaph of Marjory Scott, 1700-1900
2019-09-25
Michael VIII Palaiologos and the Nikaian generation: Roman political culture in the years of exile
2019-07-30
Beehives of knowledge: Cosmographer networks of Sebastian Münster, Gerard Mercator, and Abraham Ortelius (1540-1570)
2019-07-25
“Farmworkers Zindabad!”: Community unionism and the Canadian Farmworkers’ Union, 1978-1986
2019-07-18
No class, no family: Women’s resistance and the occasional structure of reproduction in Vancouver’s last brothel district, 1911-1914
2019-07-17
Transnational Turks, print media, and U.S.-Turkish ties, 1919-1952
2019-05-22
Beyond protest: Foregrounding caregiving and service organizations in gay political responses to the HIV epidemic in Vancouver
2019-04-29
Acting virtuously: Ceremonial displays of imperial virtue in Byzantium
2019-04-10
Molding lumps of clay: Political education through extracurricular activities for primary schoolchildren in Yangzhou, February 1949–June 1952
2019-04-02
The anti-Armenian riots of 1895–1897: The "climate of violence" and intercommunal conflict in Istanbul and the eastern Anatolian provinces of the Ottoman Empire
2018-12-14
Anarchism and the working class: the union of Russian workers in the North American labor movement
2018-08-27
Sovereign culture: Stó:lō cultural heritage and political activism in the twentieth century
2018-07-16
Sympathy and the unbelieved in modern retellings of Sindhi Sufi folktales
2018-07-16
Atoms for Annan: The Chapelcross Works nuclear station, technopolitics, and British nuclear culture in the Dumfriesshire region of Scotland between 1955-1979
2018-05-01
Three reincarnations of the Smilin' Buddha Cabaret: Entertainment, gentrification, and respectability in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside 1952-84
2018-02-23
“Sisterhood is powerful, but not easy:” Conflict, American imperialism, and splintering at the 1971 Vancouver Indochinese Women’s Conference
2018-02-21
Youth Activism and the Black Freedom Struggle in Lawnside, New Jersey
2018-01-12
Early modern reforestation: The case of the Ottoman Western Balkans
2017-09-25
Finding Muhammad Qutb: Praising ghosts online, a different Qutbian legacy and Islamic revivalism in the Gulf
2017-08-30
Proxied perspectives: immigrant and low-income women presented to the royal commission on the status of women, 1968
2017-08-29
Rogues Among Rebels: Entanglements between Irish Catholics and the Fishermen’s Protective Union of Newfoundland
2017-08-24
British travelers and Egyptian ‘dancing girls:’ locating imperialism, gender, and sexuality in the politics of representation, 1834-1870
2017-08-04
Divided Loyalties:A Study of a Communist-Led Trade Union’s Struggle For Survival in Trail, British Columbia, 1943-1955
2017-07-19
A time to heal: Medical missions and Indigenous medico-spiritual cosmologies on the Central Coast of British Columbia, 1897-1914
2017-07-14
The Sultan-Caliph and the Heroes of Liberty: Heroism, revolution, and the contestation of public persona in the late Ottoman Empire, c. 1900-1918
2017-06-07
Neither hero, nor villain: Rudolf Kastner and the Cluj ghetto narratives
2017-04-19
Reverberations of moral reform: The impact of the racialized construction of Vancouver’s Chinatown on the Vancouver Police Department, 1886-1907
2016-12-15
The Pawn that would be King: Macedonian Slavs in the Greek Civil War, 1946-49
2016-12-07
Defending the established order and the welfare of French Canadians from two different perspectives: The Quebec Gazette and the Gazette de Québec, 1836-1840.
2016-11-08