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Premonitions Of The Past: An Analysis Of Pastiche In The Films Of Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Bell
Premonitions Of The Past: An Analysis Of Pastiche In The Films Of Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Bell
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This dissertation examines the work of contemporary director Quentin Tarantino in light of the concept of pastiche. After beginning with an outline of recent scholarship on postmodern pastiche, an analysis of criticisms of Tarantino’s use of pastiche in both Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction will provide a reference point for engaging with his later use of the mode. Richard Dyer and Ingeborg Hoesterey’s concept that pastiche can facilitate a critical potential in cinema will be privileged. Accusations of mistreatment and nontreatment of females, and of prioritizing a white masculine cool nostalgia for performative cool black masculinity will be challenged by …
Orthodoxy And Enlightenment: George Campbell (1719-1796) And The Aberdeen Enlightenment, Jeffrey Mark Suderman
Orthodoxy And Enlightenment: George Campbell (1719-1796) And The Aberdeen Enlightenment, Jeffrey Mark Suderman
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George Campbell (1719-1796) is now recognized as one of the leading eighteenth-century philosophers of rhetoric, but is otherwise little known. In his own time, however, he was famous for his religious and apologetic writings, and for his leadership within the Church of Scotland. Recent scholars have attempted to examine his place within the histories of both rhetorical theory and philosophy. But they have made little effort to understand his religious thought, and have consequently failed to understand either his larger intentions or the place therein of The Philosophy of Rhetoric itself.;This study seeks to redress this imbalance by exploring the …
Moral Philosophy And The Intellectual World Of Justices: The United States Supreme Court, 1860-1910, Mark Warren Bailey
Moral Philosophy And The Intellectual World Of Justices: The United States Supreme Court, 1860-1910, Mark Warren Bailey
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The United States Supreme Court during the period between 1860 and 1910 has been portrayed as the source of a laissez-faire style of constitutional interpretation under which the nation and the Court largely abdicated their obligation to protect society's common interests from the ideologically conservative influences of new and powerful economic interests.;Recent trends in legal/intellectual history have moderated this critical view and have begun to rehabilitate the Supreme Court's image by placing it in a more accurately drawn intellectual context. This approach reasserts the role of ideas in shaping the law and reduces that of economic determinism. This thesis extends …
Baptists And Business: Central Canadian Baptists And The Secularization Of The Businessman At Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1848-1921, Paul Robert Wilson
Baptists And Business: Central Canadian Baptists And The Secularization Of The Businessman At Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church, 1848-1921, Paul Robert Wilson
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The challenges to the faith of the Baptist businessman exerted by the arrival of a business-dominated culture in the last half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been largely ignored by Canadian historians. As the Protestant religious minority with the strongest doctrinal emphasis on separation from the world through the application of a strict moral code, Baptists provide the historian with an excellent case study for analysis of the sectarian Protestant response to social and cultural change. One might expect that the "otherworldly" perspective held by Baptists afforded considerable resistence to the secularizing effects of the materialistic social …
Professor John Simson And The Growth Of Enlightenment In The Church Of Scotland, Anne Skoczylas
Professor John Simson And The Growth Of Enlightenment In The Church Of Scotland, Anne Skoczylas
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Historians have seen John Simson (1668-1740) as either a heretic or a rationalist. He is a frequently mentioned, but seldom analysed, figure in eighteenth century Scottish history. This dissertation seeks to place Simson in his doctrinal and political context, proving that he was a faithful Calvinist Whig whose career was an important factor in creating conditions in which the Scottish Enlightenment could flourish with the approval and protection of the Church of Scotland.;Simson was elected to the Glasgow University Divinity chair in 1708. Despite his conventional background and education as a son of the manse, within a few years he …
School And Society In London, Canada, 1826-1871: The Evolution Of A System Of Public Education, Michael F. Murphy
School And Society In London, Canada, 1826-1871: The Evolution Of A System Of Public Education, Michael F. Murphy
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The principal question investigated in the thesis is: were changes in school attendance behaviour primarily the result of socially differentiated family strategies. The behaviour analyzed is the decision of London parents to send or not to send their children to school between 1826 and l871.;Parents in this study were divided into three cultural groups: Protestants, Roman Catholics and Blacks. They were also classified into occupational groups which were employed as surrogate measures for social class: upper, middle, and lower. Enrollments and attendance rates provided the proxy measure of the behavioural decision. The time frame was differentiated into four periods of …
The Straight Furrow': The Life Of George S Henry, Ontario's Unknown Premier, Donald Ross Spanner
The Straight Furrow': The Life Of George S Henry, Ontario's Unknown Premier, Donald Ross Spanner
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The life of George S. Henry and his management of the Ontario economy as Conservative premier (1930-1934) has been unjustifiably ignored by academics. Henry's unique upbringing --his Methodist canons of individualism, his Pelmanist notions of efficiency, and his obsession with economic development--would shape his career throughout the 1920s when, as Highways minister, he brought uniformity and standardization to the province's complex road system. As premier, these principles and values would also have a significant impact upon how Ontario was governed in the early depression years.;Throughout Henry's premiership, his government's austere attitude towards unemployment was determined by three factors: a faith …
Fraternalism In Victorian Ontario: Secret Societies And Cultural Hegemony, Christopher J. Anstead
Fraternalism In Victorian Ontario: Secret Societies And Cultural Hegemony, Christopher J. Anstead
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Between 1840 and 1901, Ontario witnessed a tremendous expansion of fraternal activity, as lodges became common features of urban society. This phenomenon derived from the link between secret societies and the viewpoint associated with the "Victorian middle class." Through an examination of provincial fraternal development, and a detailed consideration of lodges in two small towns, this thesis explores the connection between secret societies and hegemony in the particular setting of Victorian Ontario.;As the forces of industrialization and urbanization changed Ontario during the nineteenth century, the old hegemony of paternalism gave way to a new hegemony--the hegemony of respectability; as this …
Algonkian-British Relations In The Upper Great Lakes Region: Gathering To Give And To Receive Presents, 1815-1843, Catherine A. Sims
Algonkian-British Relations In The Upper Great Lakes Region: Gathering To Give And To Receive Presents, 1815-1843, Catherine A. Sims
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Within the context of the Upper Great Lakes region, this thesis analyzes Algonkian-British relations primarily through an examination of the gatherings at British posts where presents were given and received. The study focuses on the period between 1815, when inhabitants of this region learned that British and American officials had formally ended the War of 1812, and 1843, the final year in which members of the British Indian department officially gave presents to all Algonkian visitors regardless of their place of residence within the region. During this period, the British government distributed presents to Algonkians of this region on Drummond …
The Development Of The Canadian Army Officer Corps, 1939-1945, Geoffrey W. Hayes
The Development Of The Canadian Army Officer Corps, 1939-1945, Geoffrey W. Hayes
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This study, based largely on records held at the National Archives of Canada and the Directorate of History, Department of National Defence, examines the basic assumptions by which the English-speaking male officer was selected for the King's Commission during the Second World War. It argues that such assumptions embodied a conception of the officer as a "military manager," one who, in Morris Janowitz's conception is "concerned with the scientific and rational conduct of war.";It was in the First World War that a Canadian military manager first supplanted Sir Sam Hughes' ill-founded conceptions with a greater administrative and tactical efficiency. But …
Governing The Law: The Canadian Department Of Justice In The Early Confederation Era, Jonathan Scott Swainger
Governing The Law: The Canadian Department Of Justice In The Early Confederation Era, Jonathan Scott Swainger
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The creation and mandate of the Canadian Department of Justice mirrored a congruence of law and politics which, in itself, was a realistic product of Canada's colonial history. Compelled by a desire to reach the most beneficial conclusion to any given conflict or problem, the department employed a pragmatic approach in its responsibilities as legal advisors to the government. This flexibility was necessary not only because of the complexities and idiosyncracies of Canadian political life, but also in working out the vagaries of the British North America Act of 1867. Based upon the official correspondence and documents of the Department …
"For The Love Of The Game And The Honour Of The Town": Organized Sport, Local Culture And Middle Class Hegemony In Two Ontario Towns, 1838-1895, Nancy Barbara Bouchier
"For The Love Of The Game And The Honour Of The Town": Organized Sport, Local Culture And Middle Class Hegemony In Two Ontario Towns, 1838-1895, Nancy Barbara Bouchier
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This study examines sport in two small Ontario towns, Ingersoll and Woodstock, between 1838 and 1895. During this period urbanization and industrialization socially and structurally changed Ontario. Changes in sport illuminate structural changes in class, gender and age relations.;Before 1850 the towns had both similarities and differences. Their societies were pre-industrial, parochial, and constrained by a subsistance economy. Sport was informal and communal, bound by kinship and neighborhood. Unlike Ingersoll, Woodstock had a group of retired British officers who viewed England's gentry as its reference. They engaged in exclusive gentry sport to express their social station.;By 1853 railway communications ended …
The Sudbury Area To The Great Depression: Regional Development On The Northern Resource Frontier, Peter Vaino Krats
The Sudbury Area To The Great Depression: Regional Development On The Northern Resource Frontier, Peter Vaino Krats
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An historical study of the Sudbury area of Northern Ontario raises important questions about the interplay of frontier North and settled South. Did progress in the "Nickel Belt" rely on outside-directed staples exploitation, or did local initiative play any part? What sort of society emerged--urban or rural, chaotic or tranquil? Questions such as these guide this thesis, which adopts a narrative coverage of local events from prehistory to the Great Depression. Changes in the resource sectors, administration and society are emphasized, for these best reflect the successive stages of areal development from a Northern "wilderness" to a modern region.;This broad-ranging …
Nathanael Burwash: A Study In Revivalism And Canadian Culture, 1839--1918, Die Marguerite Van
Nathanael Burwash: A Study In Revivalism And Canadian Culture, 1839--1918, Die Marguerite Van
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The primary focus of this study is the intellectual formation and thought of an influential but largely unknown Canadian Methodist theologian and educator, Nathanael Burwash (1839-1918), dean of theology and chancellor of Victoria University, Toronto. Historians studying the relationship between organized religion and society during Burwash's lifespan have detected a profound reorientation within Canadian Methodism and Protestantism generally, as educated individuals came to terms with the critical thought and structural changes of the late Victorian period. This dissertation seeks to establish to what extent John Wesley's revivalist theology remained authoritative both for Burwash as the denomination's leading theologian, and in …
"A Learned And Honorable Body": The Professionalization Of The Ontario Bar, 1867-1929, Curtis Johnson Cole
"A Learned And Honorable Body": The Professionalization Of The Ontario Bar, 1867-1929, Curtis Johnson Cole
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This dissertation analyses the development of the Ontario bar during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. Ontario lawyers, like many other groups in post-Confederation Canada, were faced with a rapidly changing world. The bar was no longer a small cohort of gentlemen whose relationships with each other and the rest of society could be comfortably governed by informal custom. Major structural changes, such as industrialization and urbanization, produced a new and different society and an environment of uncertainty for lawyers.;The bar responded to these changes by attempting to professionalize. Professionalization is defined here as a striving for occupational …
Empire, Provinces, Frontier: Perspectives On The Pennsylvania-Maryland Boundary Dispute, Charles Desmond Dutrizac
Empire, Provinces, Frontier: Perspectives On The Pennsylvania-Maryland Boundary Dispute, Charles Desmond Dutrizac
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The Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary dispute began in 1681 and climaxed in the late 1730s although a final boundary line was not run until the 1760s. During that time, the nature of the dispute changed dramatically from a personal contest between two proprietors for the control of an uncharted wilderness to a multi-leveled conflict involving imperial officials, proprietary families, members of two rival provincial elites, and local border dwellers. From Whitehall to Philadelphia and Annapolis, to the disputed frontier, the interests of the Penns and Calverts, provincial leaders in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and the local border population became intertwined in an expanding …
Infrastructure And Resources: Governments And Their Promotion Of Northern Development In British Columbia - 1945-1975, John Ralph Wedley
Infrastructure And Resources: Governments And Their Promotion Of Northern Development In British Columbia - 1945-1975, John Ralph Wedley
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A major source of British Columbia's economic growth in the three decades after World War II was the expansion of resource industries into the territory lying north of the 53rd parallel. The three provincial administrations of the period (Coalition, 1945-52; Social Credit, 1952-72; and New Democratic Party, 1972-75) were active participants in northern expansion, and the extent and style of their involvements largely shaped the manner in which the process of northern development unfolded. A narrative/chronological approach is used to compare and assess critically the developmental policies and programs of these administrations, and to analyse the impact of their efforts …
Separation Or Integration? The Russian Mennonite Immigrant Community In Ontario, 1924-45, Henry Paetkau
Separation Or Integration? The Russian Mennonite Immigrant Community In Ontario, 1924-45, Henry Paetkau
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How do ethnic groups survive and maintain their identity when transplanted into an alien cultural environment? That question is one of the major issues in the study of ethnicity. Both historians and sociologists have, in recent years, attempted to understand more clearly and explain more fully the nature and dynamics of ethnic group cohesion and survival. While there is general agreement on the strength and persistence of ethnic peculiarities, there is considerable debate over whether this is due primarily to factors and forces internal or external to the group. What current models and theories designed to understand and explain this …
Martin Robison Delany And The Black Struggle For Freedom, Raimi Olatunji Adeleke
Martin Robison Delany And The Black Struggle For Freedom, Raimi Olatunji Adeleke
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Perhaps in no other area is the search for a positive black past more pronounced than in the field of black biography. The need for a better understanding of the black past is closely tied to the reconstruction of the lives of black leaders in the nineteenth century. These leaders, many of whom remain relatively unknown, struggled for black freedom and rights. Unfortunately, the rise of the aristocratic tradition in American historiography in the second half of that century seriously undermined their historical significance. The task of reconstructing their careers, therefore, involved a confrontation with the values of aristocratic history. …
Unskilled Labourers On The Public Works Of Canada, 1840-1880, Ruth Elisabeth Bleasdale
Unskilled Labourers On The Public Works Of Canada, 1840-1880, Ruth Elisabeth Bleasdale
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This study of canal and railway labourers on Canada's public works provides a detailed analysis of an important segment of the developing industrial working class during the years of transition to industrial capitalism. By examining changes in the industry, the composition of the workforce, and the labourers' behaviour and perceptions of that behaviour, it traces both the process of class formation and the growth of class tensions. Beginning with an analysis of the public contract system, it defines the nature of the relationship between contractors and governments and traces the impact of the technological revolution and the growth of a …
The Canadian Wheat Trade During The Inter-War Years, Kelvin Gary Grant
The Canadian Wheat Trade During The Inter-War Years, Kelvin Gary Grant
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The international market conditions confronting exporters of Canadian wheat and Canadian marketing policies of the inter-war period are studied.;Wheat is treated as a heterogeneous product. Following the contemporary British milling and baking literature, bread-making wheats are aggregated into strong, intermediate, and weak types. The results of an empirical study of the United Kingdom's market are consistent with the substitution pattern described in the contemporary literature. It is concluded that the British demand for Canadian wheat is not reasonably approximated as perfectly elastic.;Increased protectionism on the European Continent was effected through instruments which included tariffs, exchange controls, import quotas, importation subject …
Alan Plaunt And Canadian Broadcasting, Michael Joseph Nolan
Alan Plaunt And Canadian Broadcasting, Michael Joseph Nolan
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Alan Plaunt was born in Ottawa, in 1904, shortly after Marconi's successful experiments resulted in the development of "wireless" communication. The first Canadian radio station began operation in 1918 and, for the next fourteen years, broadcaster-businessmen dominated this new industry. These radio pioneers were eventually forced to accept a higher level of government involvement in broadcasting. Plaunt's unrelenting efforts to fashion a new form of broadcasting, which would transcend the exploitation of radio solely for private gain, helped to establish the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) in 1932 and its successor, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), in 1936. The CBC …
The Optimal Supply Of Bank Money: Upper Canada's Experience On And Off The Specie Standard, Angela Redish
The Optimal Supply Of Bank Money: Upper Canada's Experience On And Off The Specie Standard, Angela Redish
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This thesis examines the fluctuations in the money stock of Upper Canada in the 1830s, and in doing so contradicts the existing interpretation of the monetary events, and also sheds further light on the operation of the early specie standard. The model of the monetary system used, incorporates the potential for currency substitution and expectations to affect monetary behaviour.;Banking in Upper Canada is characterized by a system of three colluding, chartered banks, which attempted to maximize profits in a small open economy. These banks were legally constrained by usury laws and the requirement that notes be redeemable in specie on …
The Government Of St John's, Newfoundland 1800-1921, Melvin Baker
The Government Of St John's, Newfoundland 1800-1921, Melvin Baker
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Although Newfoundland was settled from at least the early seventeenth century, its growth, including that of St. John's, was slow until the first quarter of the nineteenth century when the great Irish influx began. With this immigration, demands arose--mainly in St. John's--for political institutions to meet the consequent urban problems. In response, in 1832, the Imperial Government established a colonial legislature at the capital. A St. John's town council was not instituted for several reasons. The most valuable land in the town was largely owned by British absentee landlords, who exercised strong opposition to any municipal taxation to their property …
William Blathwayt's Empire: Politics And Administration In England And The Atlantic Colonies, 1668-1710, Barbara Cresswell Murison
William Blathwayt's Empire: Politics And Administration In England And The Atlantic Colonies, 1668-1710, Barbara Cresswell Murison
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William Blathwayt (?1649-1717) served five monarchs in as many as five posts at one time, from the wholly clerical to the semi-ministerial. The career of such a prodigious and durable pluralist in a period hardly noted for its political stability raises several interesting questions. The most substantial study of Blathwayt, by Gertrude Jacobsen, was written at a time when the leading interpretations of late seventeenth century English history was substantially Whig and the changes wrought by the Glorious Revolution seemed its most compelling feature. Since the 1930s, other historians have suggested that the main emphasis of studies of 1688-9 should …
A E Smith And The Canadian Labour Defense League, Jaroslav Petryshyn
A E Smith And The Canadian Labour Defense League, Jaroslav Petryshyn
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Sir Sam Hughes: His Public Career, 1892-1916, Ronald Graham Haycock
Sir Sam Hughes: His Public Career, 1892-1916, Ronald Graham Haycock
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No abstract provided.
Canadian Railways And The International Brotherhoods: Labour Organization In The Railway Running Trades In Canada, 1865-1914, Joseph Hugh Tuck
Canadian Railways And The International Brotherhoods: Labour Organization In The Railway Running Trades In Canada, 1865-1914, Joseph Hugh Tuck
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The Development Of Federal Indian Policy In Canada, 1840-1890, James Douglas Leighton
The Development Of Federal Indian Policy In Canada, 1840-1890, James Douglas Leighton
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The First Elite Of Toronto: An Examination Of The Genesis, Consolidationand Duration Of Power In An Emerging Colonial Society, Robert Joseph Burns
The First Elite Of Toronto: An Examination Of The Genesis, Consolidationand Duration Of Power In An Emerging Colonial Society, Robert Joseph Burns
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