Year: 2026, 2026
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Abstract: <p>This thesis concerns the history of the Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center (MAC) from 1992 to 2005. The MAC originated from the vision of Paul Bather, a local politician in Louisville, who proposed building it in 1992, incorporated it, and formed its Board of Directors in 1994. The planning of the MAC involved collaboration among Ali and his wife, Lonnie Ali, community leaders,… more Year: 2026, 2026
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Abstract: <p>In 1980s Ontario, racialized migrant domestic workers faced systemic exploitation, precarious immigration status, and exclusion from labour protections, reinforced by provincial and federal policies that devalued domestic labour. This thesis examines how INTERCEDE, a Toronto-based coalition, challenged these structural inequalities. Employing an intersectional approach, this study… more Year: 2026, 2026
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Abstract: <p>Environmental infrastructure transforms the surrounding physical and culturallandscapes. In Canada, it has long been an integral part of settler colonialism. It severs
Indigenous ties to the land and furthers colonial goals. This thesis examines the complex
history of the Trent-Severn Waterway (TSW) during the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, when it drastically changed the… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): McKeown, Matthew F, Thesis advisor (ths): Sheinin, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Hatton, Nathon, Degree committee member (dgc): Wright, Robert, Degree committee member (dgc): Kidd, Bruce, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This study considers the impact of urban revitalization through community engagement and the promotion of activities, in particular boxing in early twentieth century Winnipeg. It details the development of a multiethnic amateur boxing league which arose in the city during this period, using both qualitative and quantitative sources and a series of maps. This research shows how spaces in… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Johnson, Alexis Marie, Thesis advisor (ths): Elbl, Ivana, Degree committee member (dgc): Harris-Stoertz, Fiona, Degree committee member (dgc): Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, Degree committee member (dgc): Carlin, Martha, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Food in high medieval England (1066–1315) was central to socialization. It played a key role in social gatherings, both through fasting and feasting. The thesis examines the symbolic and functional roles of food rituals across lay, ecclesiastical, monastic, noble, and royal groups, highlighting the ways in which food served as a means of socialization and a tool for asserting power,… more Year: 2024, 2024
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Abstract: <p>This study examines the intersection between nuclear energy in Ontario, Canada, with popular forces acting upon it between the 1940s and the mid-1980s. It finds that nuclear energy
was the target of changing epistemology as society shifted to a post-modern framework in its
perception of technology. Technology was irreparably associated with potential encroaching
governmental… more Full Text: I PROFOUNDLY MISUNDERSTOOD: NUCLEAR ENERGY IN ONTARIO, 1940s – 1980s A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2024, 2024
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Abstract: <p>This study examines the intersection between nuclear energy in Ontario, Canada, with popular forces acting upon it between the 1940s and the mid-1980s. It finds that nuclear energy
was the target of changing epistemology as society shifted to a post-modern framework in its
perception of technology. Technology was irreparably associated with potential encroaching
governmental… more Year: 2023, 2023
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Abstract: <p>Arturo Cruz Jr., born in 1953, was a highly influential and respected figure in Nicaraguan Politics. He was involved in the Contras. Cruz played a crucial role in supporting the Contras, helping to secure U.S. funding for the group which was a rebel group formed by the US against the Sandinista dictatorship in the 1980s. Later, he also served as the Nicaraguan ambassador to the US… more Full Text: BIOGRAPHY OF ARTURO CRUZ JUNIOR A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY Peterborough, Ontario, Canada © …
Year: 2023, 2023
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Hoyt, Andrew Mitchell, Thesis advisor (ths): Bocking, Stephen, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Rutherford, Stephanie, Degree committee member (dgc): Martin, Laura J, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Colonization has transformed the landscapes of the American Midwest and compromised the region's resources and ecologies. In response, governments, environmental scientists, and Indigenous nations have undertaken myriad efforts over the past century to restore Midwestern environments. Yet the appropriate goals and techniques for this work have been deeply contested. This thesis… more Full Text: ECOLOGY, SETTLER COLONIALISM, AND THE ENVIRONMENTS OF THE AMERICAN MIDWEST: THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION SINCE 1950 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of …
Year: 2023, 2023
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Martel, Ewan, Thesis advisor (ths): Sheinin, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Wright, Robert, Degree committee member (dgc): Elton, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Bargain-Villéger, Alban, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>AbstractThe Rise of Property and the Death of the Moral Economy: Enclosure and Social Unrest in Late-Eighteenth Century England – Ewan Martel</p><p>Eighteenth-century Great Britain was a kingdom marked by the rise of a property-based and highly individualistic conception of social and economic structures came a doctrine of improvement based upon extracting the most value from… more Full Text: The Rise of Property and the Death of the Moral Economy: Enclosure and Social Unrest in Late-Eighteenth Century England A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in …
Year: 2023, 2023
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Abstract: <p>This thesis examines racism in Argentina between 1880 and 1930. The governing elite's efforts to whiten the Argentine population at the end of the nineteenth century led to the erasure and discrimination of anyone who did not have Caucasian features: Afro-descendants, mulattos, mestizos, and creoles. However, in the 1930s, whitening policies proved to have limited success. On the… more Full Text: RACISM IN ARGENTINA AND THE BLACKNESS PROBLEM THE CHANGE OF PERCEPTION TOWARDS AFRO-DESCENDANTS IN BUENOS AIRES AND THE NEW DIMENSIONS OF BLACKNESS IN ARGENTINA (1880-1930). A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of …
Year: 2023, 2023
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Frattasio, Kyle James, Thesis advisor (ths): Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio, Degree committee member (dgc): Wright, Robert, Degree committee member (dgc): Nguyen-Marshall, Van, Degree committee member (dgc): Shubert, Adrian, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936 divided national public opinions throughout the West. One of the factors behind such split was religious beliefs. This was the case for the United States and Ireland where Francisco Franco's rebels got significant public support. This work argues that both the Irish and American Catholic Church hierarchies and laity Catholics'… more Full Text: The Internationalized Crusade: Examining the International Catholic Support of the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. The Cases of Ireland and the USA. A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the …
Year: 2023, 2023
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Abstract: <p>The scope of my scholarship has undergone a primarily interdisciplinary approach with an emphasis on historiographic scholarship and method, with the support of communication and sociological theory to underpin my core arguments in each chapter. I use the theories of Third Space, commodified racism, and common sense racism in combination to provide an in-depth analysis of prior… more Full Text: ENTERTAIN ME: THE HISTORY OF COMMODIFIED RACISM AND THE EXPLOITATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …
Year: 2023, 2023
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Hoyt, Andrew Mitchell, Thesis advisor (ths): Bocking, Stephen, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Rutherford, Stephanie, Degree committee member (dgc): Martin, Laura J, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Colonization has transformed the landscapes of the American Midwest and compromised the region's resources and ecologies. In response, governments, environmental scientists, and Indigenous nations have undertaken myriad efforts over the past century to restore Midwestern environments. Yet the appropriate goals and techniques for this work have been deeply contested. This thesis… more Year: 2023, 2023
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Martel, Ewan, Thesis advisor (ths): Sheinin, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Wright, Robert, Degree committee member (dgc): Elton, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Bargain-Villéger, Alban, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>AbstractThe Rise of Property and the Death of the Moral Economy: Enclosure and Social Unrest in Late-Eighteenth Century England – Ewan Martel</p><p>Eighteenth-century Great Britain was a kingdom marked by the rise of a property-based and highly individualistic conception of social and economic structures came a doctrine of improvement based upon extracting the most value from… more Year: 2021, 2021
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Abstract: <p>"The Paper Chase: A Survey of Student Newspapers on Ontario Campuses in the 1960s" is a regional study of three University campuses in Ontario — the University of Toronto, Queen's University and Trent University — and examines each of these institutions' respective student newspapers, The Varsity, The Queen's Journal, and The Arthur as a primary source analysis.… more Full Text: THE PAPER CHASE: A SURVEY OF STUDENT NEWSPAPERS ON THREE ONTARIO CAMPUSES IN THE 1960s A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for a Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science …
Year: 2021, 2021
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Sadlier, Ginevra, Thesis advisor (ths): Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, Degree committee member (dgc): Eamon, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Nguyen-Marshall, Van, Degree committee member (dgc): Hindmarsh, Bruce, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>This thesis examines low-ranking British soldiers' memoirs in the nineteenth century to determine the extent to which they identified with Christianity and how their expressions of faith differed from each other. Using twelve narratives published between 1811–1863, it finds that all of these soldiers identified themselves with Protestant Christianity and, more importantly,… more Full Text: Religion, Wilberforce’s Evangelicalism, and the Memoirs of Common British Soldiers, 1811-1863. A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and …
Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This study analyzes Christian European perceptions of group identity and beliefs in early modern geographic literature, as exemplified by John Ogilby's Africa (1670), a selective translation of Olfert Dapper's 1668 work, and its descriptions of West-Central Africa. Ogilby's work, congruently with contemporary geographic literature, employed the Christian religion as a key… more Full Text: SIGNALLING BELIEFS IN OGILBY’S AFRICA: REPRESENTATIONS OF RELIGION AND GROUP IDENTITIES IN WEST-CENTRAL AFRICA A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …
Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This study investigates the origins of the music produced by the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Indiana as well as trying to understand how it facilitated recruitment into the Klan and how it was used as a tool for wider social and political change. The Indiana Klan's newspaper The Fiery Cross is awash in reports of parades and other public performances of music, yet this phenomenon has… more Full Text: Hearing the Invisible Empire: Music and Hatred in Progressive Era Indiana A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science Trent …
Year: 2020, 2020
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Abstract: <p>This thesis examines the social impact of horses on French elites between 1150 and 1300. Using courtly literature, a veterinary treatise, manuscript illuminations, archeological studies, material artefacts, and account books, it explores the place of horses in elite society—practical and symbolic—and assesses the social costs of elite use and ownership of horses. While horses served… more Full Text: A KNIGHT AND HIS HORSE: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF HORSES IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE, 1150-1300 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …
