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Rise of the machine: the making of the video game industry and military simulation
(2014-01-22)Rise of the Machine assesses the history and development of the home video game industry and its technological evolution from a military industrial structure that has its roots in the Second World War. The thesis focuses ... -
Short circuit: Ontario's electrical utilities, Northern Ontario, and the metabolic rift, 1906-1998
(2017)The theory of the metabolic rift offers historians and ecologists alike a new means of exploring the relationship between humans, nature, and capital. Based on the works of Karl Marx, the theory of the metabolic rift argues ... -
Study of the strike at Canada Safeway by Local 175 of the United Food and Commercial Workers / by William P. Vinh-Doyle.
(2006)"This study began in 2004, two years after the Canada Safeway Strike had concluded. At the time of the strike, I was completing my undergraduate degree in Education at Lakehead University. ... Two local newspapers. The ... -
Themes on Finnish settlement in the Thunder Bay area
(2004)This migration has contributed to the Finnish population being found in many countries, including Canada. It is this Finnish-Canadian population that is of interest here. Growing up in the Thunder Bay area, within the ... -
This little piggy goes to market : the Ontario hog producers and the development of controlled marketing
(2007)Imagine being a wheat farmer, working against unpredictable forces to produce grain for the commercial market. You wonder if the weather will co-operate to provide you with good planting, growing and harvesting conditions, ... -
TO DIE A 'CANADIAN': How Nineteenth-Century European Immigrants Influenced the Culture of Death in Canada
(2016)To understand the mystery of why modern attitudes toward death assumed their current forms, it is necessary to explore their socio-historical roots. This thesis focuses specifically on the cultural interpretations of death ... -
Transformation of a union local : local 1075 International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO), 1952-1962
(2002)What is there in common between socialism and labour in Canada? Or, phrased differently, is there a history of socialism and the labour movement in Canada? Historians and other academics have asked themselves these ... -
University that wasn't : the University of Canada North, 1970-1985
(1994)The creation of The University of Canada North, by federal letters patent in 1971, marks the beginning of a revealing episode in northern Canadian history that spans almost fifteen years. The brain-child of Toronto lawyer ... -
Urban Mirror, Kabuki's reflection of Tokugawa social trends
(2009)The Tokugawa period (1615-1868) ushered in an era of unprecedented peace and unity for Japan, a nation that had been engulfed by several hundred years of internal warfare. It was during this unique period of time that ... -
Violence and masculinity in Hollywood war films during World War II
(2013-02-03)During World War II, the Hollywood studios produced an unprecedented number of war-themed films in order to help prepare American audiences for what was to come, as well as to profit from the popularity of anything pertaining ...