Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This thesis explores middling reform-minded representations of plebeian children's material worlds in England from 1720 to 1780. Specifically, it examines depictions of chattel and place in imagery of children, to convey messages aligned with the reform initiatives of the eighteenth century. Using the Old Bailey Proceedings, prints by William Hogarth, and novels, it argues that… more Full Text: THE MATERIAL WORLDS OF THE IDLE AND THE INDUSTRIOUS: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MIDDLING REFORM-MINDED REPRESENTATIONS OF PLEBEIAN CHILDREN A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master …
Year: 2019, 2019
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Abstract: <p>The Spanish Civil War was a theatre of political tension where democracy, communism, and fascism clashed during the interwar period, starting in July 1936 and ending in April 1939. The war defied the traditional concept of a civil war as Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union became involved. All three saw Spain as a testing ground for new military technologies. Meanwhile the United States… more Full Text: PREPARED FOR THE NEXT WAR? U.S. ATTACHÉ REPORTS, MILITARY INNOVATION AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 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 …
Year: 2019, 2019
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Abstract: <p>Justice Weekly was a tabloid published in Toronto from 1946 to 1972. The popular narrative is that it was an unremarkable, obscure, and pornographic paper which was co-opted by gay and homophile voices in the 1950s. But why did a magazine best remembered, as Mordecai Richler put it, as "the pervert's new statesman" publish this material? This thesis argues that Justice… more Full Text: The Pervert’s New Statesman: Justice Weekly, Advocacy, and Sexuality in Post-War Canada 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 …
Year: 2019, 2019
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Abstract: <p>This thesis examines performance and propaganda in the reign of Edward IV and explores the ways in which Edward, his queen Elizabeth Woodville, and her brother Anthony sought to legitimize their newfound positions. It argues that all three sought to 'perform idealism' to bolster their claims to their respective positions, presenting themselves as close to the contemporary ideal… more Full Text: EDWARD IV, THE WOODVILLES, AND THE POLITICS OF IDEALISM, C. 1464-83 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT UNIVERSITY …
Year: 2019, 2019
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Abstract: <p>The Royal Philanthropic Society (RPS) was the first institution in England to care for young offenders. While historians have demonstrated the legal importance of this institution, none have examined the experience of the youths it attempted to reform. The admission registers of the RPS reveal the importance of adults and peers in the experiences of the inmates of the institution, as… more Full Text: THE LIVES OF YOUNG DELINQUENTS: RELATIONSHIPS OF POWER IN THE ROYAL PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY 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: 2018, 2018
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Abstract: <p>Jimmy Carter and his administration varied the ways in which they addressed human rights concerns internationally. There was a strong, often emotional evocation of human rights in reference to countries that were less economically, strategically, or politically important to the United States and the foreign policy goals of the Carter administration. This was not present in Carter's… more Full Text: PRESS RHETORIC AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CARTER ERA: 1977-81 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: 2017, 2017
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Abstract: <p>This thesis provides an in-depth and chronological study of the development of civil aviation in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (today's Botswana), and the role played by the British Government in the development of this form of transport. The thesis argues that Her Majesty's Government's neglect and very little interest in its protectorate's civil aviation represented… more Full Text: CIVIL AVIATION AND SCHEDULED AIR SERVICES IN COLONIAL BOTSWANA, 1935-1966: A HISTORY OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT A thesis submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of …
Year: 2017, 2017
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Abstract: <p>From 1949-1957, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was the face of the Liberal Party. Party branding was wholly devoted to his friendly, 'Uncle Louis' brand image. St. Laurent's image was manipulated and manufactured without public preconception, establishing the modern tactics of personal branding still used by his successors. This thesis studies the elections of 1949, 1953… more Full Text: THE BRANDING OF THE PRIME MINISTER: ‘Uncle Louis’ and Brand Politics in The Elections of Louis St. Laurent 1949-1957 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: 2017, 2017
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Abstract: <p>Within this project, I have identified a new pattern of instruction, surrounding women's bodies and their movement within the public space, present within didactic literature produced during the reign of Charles VI of France (1368-1422). This pattern, present in the texts Le livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry pour l'instruction de ses filles, Le Menagier de Paris, Le livre… more Full Text: CONTROLLING THE FEMININE BODY IN PUBLIC: AN EXAMINATION OF DIDACTIC LITERATURE FROM THE REIGN OF CHARLES VI OF FRANCE AND ITS FOCUS ON MOVEMENT A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Reiquirements of the …
Year: 2017, 2017
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Abstract: <p>This thesis explores the social history of the Marange people of eastern Zimbabwe from the 1960s to 2015. It uses historical episodes like the recurring droughts, the 1970s war of independence, the 'crisis in Zimbabwe,' that has been traced from the late - 1990s, and the diamond mining story to demonstrate how the inhabitants interacted with their environment. It argues that… more Full Text: ‘Land, Displacement and Coping Strategies’: A Social History of the Marange People, Eastern Zimbabwe, 1960s -2015 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: 2016, 2016
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Abstract: <p>This thesis offers a comprehensive look at the changing roles of a colonial built railway in what is now eastern Botswana. It was built for the extraction of mineral wealth and migration of cheap African labour in Southern Africa but it later assumed a different role of shaping the modern Botswana state. The thesis deals with several other issues related to the railway in Bechuanaland… more Full Text: UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN BECHUANALAND: THE DYNAMIC ROLE OF THE MAFIKENG – BULAWAYO RAILWAY, FROM THE LATE 1800s to 1960s A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts …
Year: 2016, 2016
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Abstract: <p>This thesis provides an analysis of the Carnegie Commission's report on the causes and consequences of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913). Shortly after the closing of hostilities, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace appointed an international Commission of Inquiry to collect evidence of atrocities from the sites of war. The thesis analyzes the arguments expressed in the… more Full Text: Finding New Roads Towards Peace: The Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913 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 …
Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>During the 1970s, ideological divisions caused by divergent interpretations of the American failure in Vietnam permeated the world of foreign policymaking. This led to a concern among the architects of the Reagan administration that foreign policymaking had become incoherent. They attempted to mitigate the effects of this disharmony by re-establishing a workable degree of ideological… more Full Text: The Effects of Ideological Conformity on Foreign Policymaking: A study of Ronald Reagan’s Central American Policy A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (or …
Year: 2016, 2016
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Abstract: <p>Many print sources from 1680 to 1730 depicted bawds and witches as figures of transgressive elderly femininity. They were often described as having roughly the same anti-social behaviour, age, and gender. Both witches and bawds were seen as seducing innocents into a life of sin, associating with the </p><p>devil, and acting lustful and unmotherly. Furthermore, they were… more Full Text: WITCHES AND BAWDS AS ELDERLY WOMEN IN ENGLAND, 1680-1730 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, …
Year: 2016, 2016
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Abstract: <p>In 1945, few refugee cases were as complicated as those of the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who found themselves stranded in defeated Germany but could neither return home due to antisemitic violence nor immigrate to most countries due to extant prewar visa restrictions. Between 1945 and 1947, some 150,000 Jews fleeing ongoing antisemitic violence joined them in American-occupied… more Full Text: IN THE WILDERNESS AT FÖHRENWALD: J E W I S H R E F U G E E S I N O C C U P I E D U P P E R B AVA R I A , 1945–47 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: 2015, 2015
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Millar, Isaac Jordan, Thesis advisor (ths): Palmer, Bryan D., Thesis advisor (ths): Durand, Caroline, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Sheinin, David M.K, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The Reagan era instigated a fundamentally conservative shift in the political, economic and discursive climate of America. As Ronald Reagan is a highly divisive symbolic figure in American politics, much of the historiography of his presidency has been characterized by polarized interpretations. Over the past decade there has been a noticeable shift towards more favourable and triumphal… more Full Text: RESHAPING THE TERMS OF DEBATE: AN EXAMINATION OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE REAGAN ERA 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 …
Year: 2015, 2015
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Abstract: <p>The thesis uses three case studies of President Nixon's foreign policy in South-east Asia to analyze presidential domestic-making. The theoretical concept of personality politics is used to analyze the Nixon administration and foreign policy. Nixon's secretive nature combined with his mistrust of the press and bureaucracy to create an office structure that restricted the… more Full Text: Alone in Power: The Presidency and Decision-Making of President Richard M. Nixon 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 Sciences Trent …
Year: 2015, 2015
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Abstract: <p>This study examines the elite national print media reaction to, and coverage of, the Cuban Revolution, between 1956 and 1962. It finds that media, equally alienated by both Fidel Castro and the United States, progressively pursued an independent narrative predicated on an homage to Cuban sovereignty. Specifically, media uniformly adopted veteran New York Times' reporter Herbert L.… more Full Text: ! ! ! ! ! ! ! THE ELITE CANADIAN PRINT MEDIA CONSTRUCTION OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, 1956-1962 ! ! ! ! ! ! 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 …
Year: 2014, 2014
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Martin, Steven Henry, Thesis advisor (ths): Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio, Degree committee member (dgc): Andriewsky, Olga, Degree committee member (dgc): Kay, Carolyn, Degree committee member (dgc): Shubert, Adrian, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Carlism and anarchism were revolutionary social movements that acquired significant popular support during the most intensive period of modernization in Spain (mid 19th to mid 20th centuries). It was noted but not well explored by contemporaries and historians that these enemies were similar in their hostility towards modernization and in their intense idealism. This thesis compares the… more Full Text: The Commonality of Enemies: Carlism and anarchism in modern Spain, 1868-1937 Steven Henry Martin 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 …
Year: 2014, 2014
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Shore, Deborah Ann, Thesis advisor (ths): Siena, Kevin P, Degree committee member (dgc): Andrew, Donna T, Degree committee member (dgc): Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, Degree committee member (dgc): Miron, Janet, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>British pornographic texts arguing the texts were part of a wider cultural discourse on luxury, criticising the upper echelons of society for their decadent and vice-ridden lifestyles. Pornographic texts consistently portray the elites of Britain as partaking in sexual deviances including lesbianism, sex with dolls, dildos and household objects. The portrayals could be dismissed as tales… more Full Text: Nymphs, Satyrs and Impotent Old Men The Portrayals of Elites in Eighteenth-Century British Pornography and Medical Literature A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of …
