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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "History"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University,, 2010)During its initial manifestation, from 1916 to 1922, Halifax's Town Planning Board reflected both a strong Progressive spirit, infused throughout much of the citizenry, and a desire to modernize and transform the city. The ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)This thesis explores the variances in political discourse, identity and understanding of citizenship amongst Parisian women of the Third Estate during the French Revolution. By exploring the divergences and cleavages that ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)Under coverture husband and wife were one person before the law. Part of coverture was the presumption of coercion, which held that married women who committed crimes did so under the direction of their husbands, and were ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Despite his connection to daily life in East Germany; east Germans began replacing their chubby, hat-wearing pedestrian light figure (the Ost-Ampelmännchen, or Ampelmann) with the non-descript West German one in the euphoria ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The construction of the Mactaquac Dam on the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada, during the late 1960s generated vocal and, at times, aggressive opposition. Dedicated to the preservation of the heritage, culture and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)This study examines the emergence of vegetarianism in Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and compares this with the developing women’s suffrage movement during the same period. Through this comparison, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-12-06)The Valley of Mexico’s historical susceptibility to flooding underwent a significant environmental transformation during the Spanish colonization, when Spaniards, influenced by their Roman and Muslim heritage, built extensive ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)Reverend Dr. Thomas McCulloch is a well-documented figure in Nova Scotia’s educational historiography. Despite this, his political activism and Presbyterian background has been largely overlooked. This thesis offers a ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)Despite a Criminal Code ban on the publication of birth control information, private clinics and companies were able to sell and provide birth control products to the public between the 1920s and 1940s. As these were the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)Early in the twentieth century, therapeutic pessimism gripped psychiatry as chronic patients overcrowded mental asylums. Psychiatry grew isolated from the rest of medicine and many feared the specialty was medically ...
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(Halifax,N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1990)While it is important to understand that savings banks appeared fairly contemporaneously across British North America, the emergence of the institution in Nova Scotia is analysed in this paper by using the light shed from ...
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From swords to ploughshares : the context for Highland soldier settlement in Nova Scotia, 1710-1775 (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2003)This dissertation examines the circumstances whereby Scottish Highland soldiers became settlers in Nova Scotia prior to the American Revolution. It details the process, commencing in the late seventeenth century, of the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2001)Gridiron and Coal is a thesis that explores the nature of industrial and cultural production. For decades rugby football teams from the mining districts of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia played their game to the rhythm of their ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Once known as the "singing island" by folklorist Helen Creighton, Nova Scotia's Devil's Island has been sorely neglected by academics. By uncovering its history, mapping the community, and exploring Creighton's role in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Within Canada, a variety of national colonial narratives are present which represent it as a welcoming, multicultural, and just country. These narratives do not include the histories of a variety of minority or marginalized ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)For Canada's post-secondary institutions, the First World War precipitated great change and upheaval. In Maritime Canada, the effects of the war were keenly felt at Acadia, Dalhousie, Mount Allison, and St. Francis Xavier ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)Many historians of the Irish experience in Canada have argued that the Irish migrants in British North America originated primarily from Ulster, settled overwhelmingly in rural regions where they became pioneering farmers, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)The nineteenth century witnessed global migration of the Irish. The Irish settled in many places and one of the many destinations was Atlantic Canada. They played a pivotal role in informing the region’s economic, social, ...
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Joseph Howe and Edward Jordon : loyalty, press freedom, and reform in 1830s Nova Scotia and Jamaica (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-08-08)This is a comparative study of two journalists in Nova Scotia and Jamaica respectively in the 1830s. As editors of colonial newspapers, Joseph Howe (1804-73) and Edward Jordon (1800-69) were tried for publishing seditious ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)John Horace Dickey was a fourth generation Haligonian lawyer who, after serving on the domestic front with the Canadian Army travelled to Japan as a part of the Canadian War Crimes Liaison Detachment - Far East. Dickey was ...
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