Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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
Year: 2021, 2021
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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
Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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
Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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
Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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