Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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
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 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
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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 …
