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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "History"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1992)Three Anglican women's religious orders existed in Nova Scotia in the last century. The Sisters of Saint Margaret managed the Church Hospital from 1891 to 1893, the Sisters of Saint John the Divine operated All Saints' ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1996)This thesis explores privateering from the British Colonies in North American in the period between 1793 and 1805. It asks why individuals and communities turned to privateering and how they were affected by the enterprise. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2018)This thesis explores the effect of King James VI and I on the English sense of national self from 1603 through 1612. It suggests that the debate regarding union between Scotland and England heightened the English sense of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2004)This thesis compares the perceptions and observations of the aboriginal people of North America in the writings of Captain John Smith and Samuel de Champlain. Such a study helps to clarify the murky subject of European-North ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1990)Even though this thesis focused on African student protests, responses from the government, and educational dimensions, it has neither been easy nor possible to wade away from political waves; the two aspects being ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)After the fall of Islamic leadership in Granada in 1492, the entire Iberian Peninsula came under Christian rule. Over the course of the sixteenth century up until the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609, the crown and ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1980)All certain and pertinent biographical information, as well as the future political affiliations in 1643, 1644 and 1648, of 469 members was codified for the use of a computer. Likewise, 783 committees, during the last nine ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1974)Abstract unavailable.
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)This study concerns one of the earliest known historical accounts of the Acadian Deportation, written by the Reverend Doctor Andrew Brown in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Based on primary documents, ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1999)The principle aim of this of thesis is to examine connections between popular radical movements in the British Isles, and in New South Wales and in Upper Canada, between the 1790s and 1830s. This period, the first decade ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This thesis examines the Verdi Lodge of the Order Sons of Italy in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with particular attention on the treatment its members received due to the internment crisis of the Second World War. The Verdi ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1998)The principle aim of this research is to examine how women in Halifax, between 1880 and 1930, used their leisure time and how this time was valued. This period marked an increase in industrial capitalism and saw an ever ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)In his 1911 novel The Abysmal Brute, Jack London portrayed boxing as a corrupt sport, lacking honest competition. Fights were fixed, gambling was endemic and audiences were robbed of 'on-the-level' sport. A decade ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)This thesis examines the role of Chinese in Canadian history by looking beyond the popular railway narrative that reinforces a stereotype of docile cheap labour and a reductive lens of racism. The research will look at ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)"Black Protest Tradition in Nova Scotia" explores the black community's history of protest in Nova Scotia from the arrival of the Black Loyalists to the destruction of Africville. While the white community in Nova Scotia ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)While the majority of the Canadian nursing sisters who served during the First World War returned home physically unscathed, very little has been said about those who returned home who had suffered mentally over the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)The thesis examines the sixteenth century Salzinnes Antiphonal in the collection of the Patrick Power Library, Saint Mary's University, Halifax. The study traces the manuscript's European provenance, analyzes the structure ...
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