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"Beyond The Band Of Brothers: The Us Military And The Myth That Women Can’T Fight (Book Review)" By Megan Mackenzie, Russell Isinger Feb 2018

"Beyond The Band Of Brothers: The Us Military And The Myth That Women Can’T Fight (Book Review)" By Megan Mackenzie, Russell Isinger

Canadian Military History

Review of Beyond the Band of Brothers: The US Military and the Myth that Women Can’t Fight by Megan MacKenzie.


"The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Great War (Book Review)" By Ian Mckay And Jamie Swift, Geoffrey Hayes Feb 2018

"The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Great War (Book Review)" By Ian Mckay And Jamie Swift, Geoffrey Hayes

Canadian Military History

Review of The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War by Ian McKay and Jamie Swift.


"Strangers In Arms: Combat Motivation In The Canadian Army, 1943-1945 (Book Review)" By Robert Engen, Russell W. Glenn Feb 2018

"Strangers In Arms: Combat Motivation In The Canadian Army, 1943-1945 (Book Review)" By Robert Engen, Russell W. Glenn

Canadian Military History

Review of Strangers in Arms: Combat Motivation in the Canadian Army, 1943-1945 by Robert Engen.


"Moltke And His Generals: A Study In Leadership (Book Review)" By Quintin Barry, Dominic J. Caraccilo Feb 2018

"Moltke And His Generals: A Study In Leadership (Book Review)" By Quintin Barry, Dominic J. Caraccilo

Canadian Military History

Review of Moltke and His Generals: A Study in Leadership by Quintin Barry.


"Britain And The Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964- 1970 (Book Review)" By David James Gill, Joseph A. Buscemi Feb 2018

"Britain And The Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964- 1970 (Book Review)" By David James Gill, Joseph A. Buscemi

Canadian Military History

Review of Britain and the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964- 1970 by David James Gill.


"Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity During Canada’S Second World War (Book Review)" By Matthew Evenden, Brian Bertosa Feb 2018

"Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-Electricity During Canada’S Second World War (Book Review)" By Matthew Evenden, Brian Bertosa

Canadian Military History

Review of Allied Power: Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada’s Second World War by Matthew Evenden.


No Shortage Of Tanks!: The Canadian Army’S System For The Recovery, Repair And Replacement Of A And B Vehicles And Major Weapons Systems, Arthur Gullachsen Feb 2018

No Shortage Of Tanks!: The Canadian Army’S System For The Recovery, Repair And Replacement Of A And B Vehicles And Major Weapons Systems, Arthur Gullachsen

Canadian Military History

This article is an overview of the First Canadian Army in North West Europe’s ability to recover, repair and damaged, destroyed and broken down vehicles and weapons systems. This capability was a crucial factor in maintaining the overall combat power of the Canadian Army Overseas during operations in the last year of war. To support this argument the author examines Canadian wartime primary documents as well as multiple secondary sources.


Winter Birches At York Redoubt, Irene Oore Feb 2018

Winter Birches At York Redoubt, Irene Oore

The Goose

This painting of Winter Birches at York Redoubt in Halifax, Nova Scotia reflects the grandeur and beauty of the historic site on which it sits and evacuates the fortification from it. York Redoubt, now a National Historic Park, was constructed in 1793 (just as war broke out between Britain and France) on a bluff at the narrowest point on the outer harbour. It overlooks the entrance to Halifax Harbour at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada.


Editors' Note, Brittney Payer, Kristen Shorer Jan 2018

Editors' Note, Brittney Payer, Kristen Shorer

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Brittney Payer, Kristen Shorer Jan 2018

Introduction, Brittney Payer, Kristen Shorer

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


Fake News And Filter Bubbles: America’S Spiral Of Extremism, Davis Drover Jan 2018

Fake News And Filter Bubbles: America’S Spiral Of Extremism, Davis Drover

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


“Whither Then I Cannot Say”: Epistemological Uncertainty And Tolkien’S Transnational Myth, Mitchell Kooh Jan 2018

“Whither Then I Cannot Say”: Epistemological Uncertainty And Tolkien’S Transnational Myth, Mitchell Kooh

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


Past As Precedent: Conflicting Perspectives Of Royal Prerogative And The Rights Of Parliament, Katelyn Leece Jan 2018

Past As Precedent: Conflicting Perspectives Of Royal Prerogative And The Rights Of Parliament, Katelyn Leece

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


An Introduction To Psychological Aphistemalgia, Justin Manning Jan 2018

An Introduction To Psychological Aphistemalgia, Justin Manning

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


The Pound And The Hammer: An Analysis Of The Effects Of Finance On Edward I’S Conquest Of Wales And Scotland, Mackenzie Mohr Jan 2018

The Pound And The Hammer: An Analysis Of The Effects Of Finance On Edward I’S Conquest Of Wales And Scotland, Mackenzie Mohr

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Isolating Visuality In The Memorial To The Murdered Jews Of Europe, Jace Silberbach Jan 2018

The Effects Of Isolating Visuality In The Memorial To The Murdered Jews Of Europe, Jace Silberbach

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


“The Endless Stream Of Men, And Moving Things”: The Emotional Impact Of The Urban Sublime In Book Vii Of Wordsworth’S The Prelude, Carina Rampelt Jan 2018

“The Endless Stream Of Men, And Moving Things”: The Emotional Impact Of The Urban Sublime In Book Vii Of Wordsworth’S The Prelude, Carina Rampelt

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


Virtual Queerness: Resisting Heteronormativity In Online Spaces, Denise Springett Jan 2018

Virtual Queerness: Resisting Heteronormativity In Online Spaces, Denise Springett

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.


Modernizing Midwifery: Managing Childbirth In Ontario And The British Isles, 1900–1950, Gwenith Cross Jan 2018

Modernizing Midwifery: Managing Childbirth In Ontario And The British Isles, 1900–1950, Gwenith Cross

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation considers the differences, as well as the similarities, between midwifery and childbirth practices in Ontario and in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. Addressing the modernization of medical practices on either side of the Atlantic, the periodization of this project reflects the increasing concerns about maternal and infant morbidity and mortality alongside medical and political attempts to ensure the involvement of trained medical professionals during pregnancy and childbirth. In Britain, the establishment of the 1902 Midwives Act regulated midwifery so that only midwives approved by the Central Midwives’ Board were allowed to practice. British midwives …


"A Meruelous Thinge!": Elizabeth Of Spalbeek, Christina The Astonishing, And Performative Self-Abjection In Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms Douce 114, Murrielle Michaud Jan 2018

"A Meruelous Thinge!": Elizabeth Of Spalbeek, Christina The Astonishing, And Performative Self-Abjection In Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms Douce 114, Murrielle Michaud

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Contributing to the spirited discussion regarding feminist and pro-feminine readings of Middle English hagiography, this dissertation challenges the tradition of grouping accounts of medieval holy women into a single genre that relies on stereotypes of meekness and obedience. I argue that fifteenth-century England saw a pro-feminine literary movement extolling the virtues of women who engaged in what I term “performative self-abjection,” a form of vicious self-renunciation and grotesque asceticism based on Julia Kristeva's model of the abject. The corollary of women's performative self-abjection is ex-gratia spiritual authority, public recognition, and independence, emphasized in the English corpus of fifteenth-century women’s hagiography. …


Writing Activism: Indigenous Newsprint Media In The Era Of Red Power, Elizabeth Best Jan 2018

Writing Activism: Indigenous Newsprint Media In The Era Of Red Power, Elizabeth Best

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis reconstructs Indigenous activism in the era of Red Power, 1972-1976, by examining three newspapers, the Native Youth Movement (NYM), The Native Voice (TNV) and The Native People (TNP). By linking these newspapers, the overarching themes of 1970s Indigenous activism are explored in order to understand the social conditions faced by young Indigenous people. Through a content analysis of these newspapers, the author examines questions such as: what were the living conditions of Indigenous people during the 1970s? What mattered most to the journalists and editors of these papers? What did Indigenous grassroots activism in Western Canada look like …


Bas Bleus, Divorceuses, Deceitful Prostitutes Or “Live Allegories” Of Change? Parisian Working-Class Women And The Revolution Of 1848, Natasha A. Gardonyi Jan 2018

Bas Bleus, Divorceuses, Deceitful Prostitutes Or “Live Allegories” Of Change? Parisian Working-Class Women And The Revolution Of 1848, Natasha A. Gardonyi

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This thesis acts as both a history of the roles that Parisian working-class women played as writers, society members and insurgents during the revolutionary year of 1848, and an analysis of why they were vilified in the press as bas-bleus, divorceuses, deceitful prostitutes and more extensively as the individuals responsible for the failure of the revolution. It argues that women became “live allegories” of the changes that Paris was experiencing in the first half of the nineteenth century, particularly when a small minority of women radicalized from late April to June. These women galvanized anxieties that men and the upper …


The Complexity Of Canadian Anti-Communism, 1945-1967, Ian Muller Jan 2018

The Complexity Of Canadian Anti-Communism, 1945-1967, Ian Muller

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation argues that the history of anti-communism in English Canada between 1945 and 1967 is more diverse and complicated than traditionally acknowledged. Often dispersed throughout the scholarship as elements of other Cold War topics, including espionage, state surveillance, and policing, anti-communism is the central subject of this investigation. A series of case studies are used to analyze individual encounters with the state and civic engagement with the domestic threat of communism. The unique politico-cultural approach of this dissertation will bolster Canada’s Cold War historiography by investigating both public and private manifestations of anti-communism.

The intersections of public safety, the …


The Forgotten Front: British Home Defence And The Invasion Scare Of 1914, Alexander Maavara Jan 2018

The Forgotten Front: British Home Defence And The Invasion Scare Of 1914, Alexander Maavara

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Few issues have impacted the British people more than the historic fear or threat of invasion. From the Napoleonic Wars to the Second World War, the most “heroic” periods of British history have been those when the island faced possible invasion and destruction. This thesis seeks to address a gap in the history of Great Britain by examining the impact of Britons’ fear of invasion on British civil-military relations prior to and in the initial stages of the First World War. Following the 1911 Agadir Crisis, Britain’s defence establishment acknowledged the political and social influence that the fear of invasion …


Venus In The Trenches: The Treatment Of Venereal Disease In The Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, Lyndsay Rosenthal Jan 2018

Venus In The Trenches: The Treatment Of Venereal Disease In The Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, Lyndsay Rosenthal

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation examines the treatment of venereal disease (VD) in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). The Canadians had one of the highest rates of infection during the war with 15.8 per cent of servicemen being diagnosed with VD. These figures generated concern among Canadian officials about the negative impact this could have on both public health and opinion. Overseas officials needed to develop policies and procedures to control the spread of the disease. When strict disciplinary measures did little to address the issue, the military experimented with more lenient ones rooted in science and medicine. Even with these measures in …


“Inconvenient Neighbours, Whom It Was Desirable Ultimately Wholly To Remove”: Differing Factors In The Dispossessions Of Studied Anishinaabe Groups Of The Great Lakes Basin, 1820-1865, Heather J. Sanguins Jan 2018

“Inconvenient Neighbours, Whom It Was Desirable Ultimately Wholly To Remove”: Differing Factors In The Dispossessions Of Studied Anishinaabe Groups Of The Great Lakes Basin, 1820-1865, Heather J. Sanguins

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Despite being located within a relatively close geographic area, the Anishinaabeg of the eastern Great Lakes basin had different experiences of, and responses to, attempted and actual dispossession between 1820 and 1865. This research explores these experiences and the exercise of colonial power through the dispossession of six groups: the Lake Erie Anishinaabeg, the Walpole Anishinaabeg, the “American” Anishinaabeg who migrated into Upper Canada and Canada West, the Chippewa of Lakes Huron, Couchiching, and Simcoe, the Potaganasee Ojibwa of Drummond Island, and the Manitoulin Anishinaabeg. While eight themes weave their way through the cases, every case of attempted or actual …