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Browsing Honours Theses by Thesis (Discipline) "History"

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Africville : a municipal exercise in managing the built environment

Leonard-Harding, Ainsley (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)

This thesis examines the relationship between the historic community of Africville and the city of Halifax through the exercise of land and property management. Through changes in early twentieth century municipal policy ...
The American expatriate literary community in Paris : collective biographies of Margaret Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Beach and Janet Flanner

MacDougall, Jennifer M. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)

This study challenges the notion that the American expatriate literary community in Paris ended with the roaring twenties following the departure of the main male figures in the 1930s. Through the collective biographies ...
Artemisia Gentileschi : inspiration and influence in early modern Italy

Ferguson, Lydia (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-04-13)

This thesis analyses the life and work of the early modern Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-ca. 1654) to understand her sources of inspiration and influence. Artemisia rose to prominence during the 20th century ...
Confronting a paradox : an historical analysis of the complex political claims of Parisian women of the third estate in revolutionary France 1785-1795

Trotter, Michael A. D. (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 ...
The emergence of vegetarianism alongside the British suffrage movement from the mid nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries

Schweers, Brock W. (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, ...
“Houses still standing” : modernity, myth and memory on Nova Scotia’s Devil’s Island

Sheppard, Julien (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 ...
The shock of Blitzkrieg : influence, exchange, and development of ideas relating to the use of tanks in the interwar period

Barager, John (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)

The history of the German Blitzkrieg into France in 1940 often looks at the German advances as unique and as a surprise to the armies of France and Great Britain. This study considers this image in relation to the spearhead ...