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 Dissertations Defended 2000-2008
2008-2009
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Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Sarah Amato |
“Curiosity Killed the Cat: Pets Personified in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Popular Culture” |
L. Loeb
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| Ariel Beaujot |
"Accessorise It: A Study of the Manufacture, Design, and Meaning of Victorian Women's Accessories" |
L. Loeb |
| Erin Black |
“Spectres of Isolation?: Debating America’s Place in the Global Arena, 1965-74” |
R. Pruessen |
| Jeffrey Bowersox |
"Raising Germans in the Age of Empire: Colonialism, Youth, and the Everyday" |
M. Eksteins |
| Heather Dichter |
Sporting Democracy: The Western Allies' Reconstruction of Germany Through Sport, 1944-1952" |
M. Eksteins |
| Julie Gilmour |
“The kind of people Canada wants": Canada and the Displaced Persons, 1943-1953 |
R. Bothwell |
| Fatima Imam |
"Institutionalizing Rajadharma: Strategies of Svereignty in the 18th Century Jaipur" |
R. Birla |
| Steve Jobbitt |
"Remembering the Nation: Geographer Ferenc Fodor and the Politics of National Memory in Trianon Hungary, 1920-1957" |
T. Lahusen |
| Tatjana Lichtenstein |
"Jewish Youth, Politics and Nationalism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1918-1938" |
D. Penslar |
| Steven Maddox |
"Healing the Wounds": Commemorations, Myths, and the Restoration of Leningrad's Imperial Heritage, 1941-1950 |
L. Viola |
| Heather Metcalfe |
"Comparative Study of Canadian and American Isolationism" |
R. Bothwell |
| David O'Brien |
Elite Service Culture at Court and in the Field: Fidelity, Generosity, and Honour in the Eighteenth-Century 'Maison Militaire du Roi' |
D. Higgs |
| Frances Timbers |
"From Faustus to Fortune-Telling: Gender and Magic in Early Modern England" |
B. Todd |
| Kiyoshi Ueda |
Hiraizumi Kiyoshi (1894-1985):'Spiritual History' in the Service of the Nation in Twentieth Century Japan |
I. Radforth |
2007-2008
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Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Elizabeth Bernhardt |
"Ginevra Sforza Bentivoglio and Women's Culture in Renaissance Bologna" |
N. Terpstra
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| Daniel McNeil |
"The devil made the mulatto": Race, Relgion and Respectability in the Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 |
P. Rutherford |
| Lori Woods |
"Pentients, Godly Charity and Public Sin: The Transformation of Civic Religion in Valencia, Spain, 1300-1450" |
M. Meyerson |
2006-2007
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Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Jennifer Carson |
“It takes revolution and evolution:” New York City’s Women Laudry Workers in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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J. Ingham
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| Wendy Cuthbertson |
"Labour Goes to War: the CIO, the People’s War and the Construction of a “New Social Order,” Toronto, 1939-1945" |
I. Radforth |
| Jennifer DeSilva |
"Ritual Negotiations: Paris de' Grassi and the Office of Ceremonies under Pope Julius II and Leo X, 1504-1521" |
N. Terpstra |
| Ryan Gingeras |
"Imperial Killing Fields: Revolution, Ethnicity and Islam in Western Anatolia, 1913-1938" |
Aksan |
| Christopher Pennington |
"The Continentalist Movement in the Politics of Canada and the United States, 1887-1894" |
R. Bothwell |
| John Michael Pettit |
"The Science of Deception: The Human Sciences, The Law, And Reform in Early 20th Century America" |
Brown/Murphy
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| Jamie Smith |
"Navigating Adsence: Law and the Family in Genoa, 1380-1420" |
N. Terpstra |
| David Mark Thompson |
"Delusions of Grandeur: French Global Ambitions and the Problem of the Revival of Military Power, 1950-1954" |
D. Smyth |
2005-2006
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Last Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Paul Baxa |
"Fascist Rome: Text and Image" |
M. Eksteins |
| Heidi Bohaker |
"Nindoodemag: Anishinaabe Identities in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600-1900"
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S. Van Kirk
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| Melanie Pascale Brunet |
"Becoming Lawyers: Gender, Legal Education and Professional Identity Formation in Canada, 1920 - 1980"
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C. Morgan
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| Clare Dale |
"War, Noblesse and Identity in Early Modern Champagne: A Study of the Recherche de la noblesse de Champagne (1673) |
J. Abray |
| Audra Diptee |
"Gender, Age and Ethnicity in teh Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807" |
M. Klein |
| Lesley Nicole Greenspan |
"The Politics of Anti-Popery: Nation-hood, War, and Conquest in Interregnum England"
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M. Finlayson
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| Valerie Hebert |
"The High Command Case: Context and Legacy, 1947-1958 |
M. Marrus |
| Denis Kozlov |
"The Readers of Novyi Mir, 1945-1970: Twentieth-Century Experience and Soviet Historical Consciousness"
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L. Viola
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| Gregor Joseph Kranjc |
"Between the Star and the Swastika: Slovene Collaboration and National Identity, 1941-1945" |
A. Rossos |
| David Lawrence |
"The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645" |
Hall |
| Amy Gennet Milne-Smith |
"Clubland: Imagining the Nineteenth-Century London Club, Manliness, and Aristocratic Culture" |
L. Loeb |
| Deborah Neill |
"Transnationalism in the Colonies: Cooperation, Rivalry, and Race in German and French Tropical Medicine, 1880-1930"
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J. Retallack
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| Urs Obrist |
"Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany: A Nato-Relationship of Special Significance |
R. Bothwell |
| Alexander Opalinski |
"Diplomatic Compromise: General Wladyslaw Sikorski's Soviet Policy and the Alliance of 30 July 1941 as a 'thrid-way' alternative for Polish-Soviet Relations during the Second World War"
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P. Wrobel
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| G. Bruce Retallack |
"Drawing the Lines: Gender, Class, Race and Nation in Canadian Editorial Cartoons, 1840-1926 |
P. Rutherford |
| Lisa Todd |
"Sexual Treason: State Surveillance of Immorality and Infidelity in World War I Germany"
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J. Retallack
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| Dana Wessell Lightfoot |
"Negotiating Agency: Labouring-Status Wivies and their Dowries in Early Fifteenth-Centurey Valencia"
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M. Meyerson
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2004-2005
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Last Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Hanne Rikke Andreassen |
"Mass Media's construction of Popular Memory, Gender, Sexuality and Nationality"
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Brown/Jennings
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| Michael Carroll |
"Peacekeeping in the Sand: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force"
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R. Bothwell
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| Mark Crane |
"A Conservative Voice in the French Renaissance: Jsse Bade (1462-1535)"
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J. Farge
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| Heather DeHaan |
"Stalinism in the Provinces: Nizhnii Novgorod in the 1930s"
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L. Viola
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| Benedikt Feldges |
"Visual Signs and Iconic Imaginations: The Genesis of a National Visual Language on American Television"
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P. Rutherford
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| Christopher Hagerman |
"Muse of Empire? Classical Education, the Classical Tradition and British Conceptions of Empire, 1757-1902"
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M. Israel
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| Sasha Mullally |
"Unpacking the Black Bag: Rural Medicine in the Maritime Provinces and Northern New England States, 1900-1950"
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M. Bliss
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| Andrea Geddes Poole |
"Conspicuous Presumption: The National Gallery of Great Britain's Board of Trustees and the Decline of Aristocratic Authority 1890-1939"
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L. Loeb
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| Jiri Smrz |
"Symphonic Maxism: Appropriating the Heritage of Nineteenth Century Russian Music for the Culture of Stalinist Soviet Union 1932-1953"
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W. Dowler
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| Katrina Srigley |
"Working Lives and Simple Pleasures: Single, Employed Women in Depression-era Toronto, 1929-1939"
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C. Strange
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| Donna Trembinski |
"Narratives of (Non) Suffering in Dominican Legendaries: Explorations and Explanations"
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I. Cochelin
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2003-2004
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Last Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Tomas Balkelis |
"In Search of a Native Realm: the Lithuanian Intelligentsia, 1883-1914"
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P. Wrobel
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| Edwin Bezzina |
"The Catholic and Protestant Families of Loudun, 1598-1665: A Case Study in the Social History of ""Religious Toleration"" in Seventeenth-Century France"
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N. Terpstra/A. Greer (co-sponsors)
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| Adam Chapnick |
"Redefining Canadian: A History of Canada and the Origins of the United Nations, 1941-1945"
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R. Bothwell
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| Jack Fairey |
"Religion, Identity, and Intercommunal Relations in the Metropolitanate of Thessaloniki: Orthodoxy and Diversity in an Ottoman City, 1788-1912"
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P. Magocsi
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| Erwin Fink |
"Region and Nation in Early Imperial Germany: The Dynamics of Popular Allegiances in the Period of Nation Building"
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J. Retallack
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| Mark Loudon |
"Cuthbert Tunstal: Humanist Bishop and Counsellor to Henry VIII: Patronage, Education and Ecclesiastical Administration in Tudor England"
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K. Bartlett
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| Gillian Mitchell |
"The Nation and National Identity in the Folk Music Revival Movement of Canada and United States from 1946 to 1980"
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E. Brown
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| Reza Pirbhai |
"Antagonistic Utopias: A Cultural Approach to Mughal Polity and Muslim Nationalism"
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M. Israel
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| Wendy Stross |
"Magazines of Mortality: A Cultural History of the Obituary in Eighteenth-Century London"
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J. Beattie
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2002-2003
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Last Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Nadine Roth |
"Collective Identity and the Landscape of Modern Urbanity: Berlin from Kaiserstadt to Weltstadt, 1871-1933"
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M. Eksteins
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| Vivienne Poy |
"Chinese Women in Canada: Comparison of Immigrants, mainly in British Columbia and Ontario before and After World War I"
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R. Hayhoe
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| Jean Levesque |
"The Post-World War II Stalinist Order in the Soviet Countryside: Labour Discipline and Collective Farm Life, 1945-1953"
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L. Viola
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| Alisa Siegel |
"An Unintended Haven: The Jews of Trinidad 1937 to 2003"
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H. Troper
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| Jack Lipinsky |
"The Progressive Wedge: the Organizational Behavior of Toronto Jewry, 1933-48"
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H. Troper
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| Barrington Walker |
"The Gavel and the Veil: 'Blackness' in Ontario Criminal Courts, 1858-1958"
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F. Iacovetta
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| Thomas Hamilton |
"Padres Under Fire: A Study of the Canadian Chaplain Services (Protestant and Roman Catholic) in the Second World War"
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M. McGowan
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| David Goutor |
"The Walls of Solidarity: The Mainstream Canadian Labour Movement and Immirgration Policy, 1872 to the Early 1930s"
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I. Radforth
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| Lynne Griffin |
"A Two-Way Street: The giving and receiving of pastoral care and relations between 13th & 14th century German speaking Dominican men & women."
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J. Goering
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| Jacob Chima Korieh |
"The State and the Peasantry: Agricultural Policy, Agricultural Crisis and Sustainability in the Igbo Region of Eastern Nigeria, 1900-1995"
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M. Klein
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| Richard Raiswell |
"Before the Company: English Perceptions of India, 1400-1600"
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K. Bartlett
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| Tracey McDonald |
"Through the Windo of Village Crime, Riazan Russia, 1921-1930"
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L. Viola
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| Jerzy Borzecki |
"The Riga Peace Treaty of 1921 in Light of the Polish and Soviet Concepts of Ethnic Arrangement of the Borderlands"
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P. Wrobel
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2001-2002
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Last Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Blaine Chiasson |
"Administering the Colonizer: The Chinese Takeover of Russian Harbin, 1919-1932"
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T. Brook
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| Lisa Mar |
"Canada's Civil Rights Movement: A Chinese Canadian Perspective"
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T. Brook
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| Hilary Earl |
"Accidental Justice: The Trial of Otto Ohlendorf and the Einsatzgruppen Leaders , September 1947-April 1948 in the American Zone of Occupation, Germany"
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M. Marrus
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| Colin Mitchell |
"Growth of Institutional Diplomacy in Safavid Iran, 1501-1629"
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M. Subtelny
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| Robert Hanks |
"Culture Versus Diplomacy: Clemenceau and Anglo-American Relations during the First World War"
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D. Higgs
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| Rebecca Wittmann |
"Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-65 in Historical Perspective"
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M. Marrus
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| Kathleen Britt Rasmussen |
"Canadian Foreign Economic Policy, 1944-1947"
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R. Bothwell
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| Eva Plach |
"Building the Moral Nation: The 'Sanacja', Imponderables and Experiments in Nation-Building in the Second Polish Republic"
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P. Wrobel
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2000-2001
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Last Name
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Thesis Title
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Supervisor
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| Alison Kirk-Montgomery |
"Courting Madness: Insanity and Testimony in Victorian Ontario"
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I. Radforth
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| Eona Karakacili |
"Peasants, Productivity and Profit in the Open Fields of England: A Study of Economic and Social Development"
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J. Raftis
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| Kevin Siena |
"Gender, Poverty and the Pox: Venereal Disease and London Hospitals, 1600-1800"
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P. Mazumdar
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| Susan Lewthwaite |
"Law and Authority in Upper Canada: The Justices of the Peace, 1800-1840"
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I. Radforth
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| Alexander Prusin |
"War and National Conflict in Eastern Galicia, 1914-1920: The Evolution of Modern Antisemitism"
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P. Wrobel
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| Joseph Berkovits |
"Prison Culture in Ontario: 1875-1915"
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J. Phillips
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| Catherine Carstairs |
"Hop Heads and Hypes: Drug Use, Regulation and Resistance in Canada, 1920-1961"
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F. Iacovetta
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| Timothy Jenks |
"Patriotism, Culture Politics and the Heroes of the Royal Navy, 1793-1815"
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R. Helmstadter
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