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Some aspects of child welfare in New Zealand : with special reference to factory legislation and industrial conditions, 1840-1890
(University of Canterbury, 1945)The children of New Zealand are probably the most fortunate in the world, for from ante-natal clinic to Vocational Guidance Centre the state watches over their welfare. This thesis is an attempt to find in the past the ... -
Restoration and Loss after Disaster: Applying the Dual Process Model of Coping in Bereavement
(2018)The article asks whether disasters that destroy life but leave the material infrastructure relatively intact tend to prompt communal coping focussing on loss, while disasters that destroy significant material infrastructure ... -
A comparison between the early colonisations of New Zealand and America
(University of Canterbury, 1935)In attempting this comparison between the early colonisation of America and New Zealand, only certain outstanding features have been taken, and these of necessity have been treated in a general fashion. Two courses were ... -
Mirroring and Indeterminacy : towards indeterminate mind-brain identity.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)In this dissertation I offer my objections to three famous arguments concerning the mindbody problem. The first argument is Saul Kripke’s (1980) modal argument against psychophysical identity theory. Kripke argues ... -
Beeby – the brains behind the blackboard : a philosophical biography.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis is a philosophical study of Clarence Beeby, New Zealand’s Director of Education from 1940 to 1960, with particular regard to the New Zealand education system. Of particular interest is his vague idea of equality. ... -
Jews, monks and martyred children : the development of ritual murder narratives in twelfth and thirteenth-century England.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis will explore the emergence and development of the narrative that Jews ritually killed Christian children in twelfth and thirteenth century England. The role that these accusations played in ‘demonising’ Jews ... -
A study of the role of universities in shaping perceptions of class in Thailand.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis seeks to better understand the concept of middle class by focusing on the way students’ experiences in university shape their class perceptions. In this study, we hypothesized that university reputation and the ... -
Bound to the Book: the role of religion in the Barbary slave trade
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This research essay concerns the Barbary slave trade of the Sixteenth to mid-Nineteenth century and examines to what extent religion governed its operation. This research shall be conducted by analysing the various primary ... -
Reproductive rights and wrongs: abortion as a crime in nineteenth-century England
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis explores the practice of abortion in nineteenth-century England, and specifically focuses on how abortion’s illegality impacted its application and those who sought this medical procedure. This thesis ... -
A picture and a hundred thousand words: the Vietnam War’s influence on the rise of long-form journalism
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Journalists played an important role in the Vietnam War through their critique and analysis of how the war progressed. Their writing in newspapers and magazines influenced public and government opinion about the war. ... -
Welcomed with open arms? The experience of refugees who emigrated from Nazi Europe to New Zealand in the years 1935-1945
(University of Canterbury, 2017)If one considers the event of recent years, as in Syria or with the Rohingya peoples, the world is struggling to deal with refugee crises. In this age of uncertainty, perhaps looking at the examples of our ancestors may ... -
When fiction gets real: representations of American cultural issues during the Vietnam era
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This dissertation investigates the underlying issues in American culture at the time of the Vietnam War, through the study of three cultural texts. Historically, scholarship on the Vietnam War tends to focus on the issue ... -
Mobilization through faith: the religious reaction to the First World War in the United Kingdom through the national and local press.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis examines the reactions to the First World War by the churches of the United Kingdom through the use of published newspapers. In the past there has been a lack of focus on the role religion played throughout ... -
The Canterbury Female Refuge: a case study 1865 - 1916
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This dissertation examines the Canterbury Female Refuge from its founding in 1865 through until 1916. New Zealand welfare historians have looked at this period of Charitable Aid based relief in some detail, along with ... -
Perception of fairness in performance appraisals : a two sample study
(University of Canterbury, 1989)The purpose of this study was to determine what is perceived as fair in performance appraisals by two samples of workers; those in charge of personnel (superiors) and those without such responsibilities (subordinates). 87 ... -
More than ‘just a bump in the road?’: a source analysis of the effects of the Muldergate scandal on South Africa’s international image in the 1970s and 1980s.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This dissertation investigates how the Muldergate scandal affected South Africa’s international image. In his book Selling Apartheid, Ron Nixon claimed that the Muldergate scandal had a negligible effect, stating that ... -
PrEPared Against HIV: 2.0
(University of Canterbury, 2017)In 2016, there were 244 new HIV infections in New Zealand; this is the fifth consecutive year of rising infection rates, and the largest number of new diagnoses reported since records began in 1985. In New Zealand, men ... -
Ko E Tala-Tukufakaholo ‘O Tonga: an alter-native holistic historiography of Tonga history from their own traditional oral culture and through their own people’s eyes
(University of Canterbury, 2017)I begin with a quote from the book by Hawaiian scholar Robert Borofsky titled; Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History (2000), an interview of the Middle-Eastern scholar Edward Said (ES) by Robert ... -
The role of the military in industrial disputes : Australia and New Zealand, 1879-1921
(University of Canterbury, 1994)This work details a relatively unexplored area of Australia's and New Zealand's military and labour history: Military Aid to the Civil Power (MACP) during industrial disputes from 1879 - 1920. It was a duty which was ... -
Novel CO2 capture and conversion into fuels via artificial photosynthesis by artificial inorganic leaves
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Researches on sustainable processes for efficient converting of solar energy to fuels have recently received enormous efforts. The main issue facing solar-assisted reactions is insufficient light harvesting by photocatalysts ...
