Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Author "Morris, Christopher"
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Adventurers and Autocrats: The Role of Authority in the Making of the English West Indies, 1595-1655
Harris, John Clinton (2022-08-25)After Walter Ralegh made his famous journey to the Orinoco in 1595, English adventurers began the haphazard process of colonizing the West Indies. Initially they tried to follow Ralegh’s efforts in Guiana, but their every ... -
An Intimate Relationship: Medical Theory, The Environment, And Hospitals
Williams, Devin; 0000-0001-5921-7499 (2022-08-08)Prior to the full acceptance of bacteriology in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, medicine relied heavily upon the natural environment and cultivating flora from various regions around the world to implement ... -
Cord Of Empire, Exotic Intoxicant: Hemp And Culture In The Atlantic World, 1600-1900
Borougerdi, Bradley JahanHemp is a genetically diverse plant that has been used by a variety of different cultures for different purposes over the course of thousands of years. Until the nineteenth century, though, most Europeans understood it ... -
Intoxication and Empire: Distilled Spirits and the Creation of Addiction in the Early Modern British Atlantic
Burton, Kristen D.; 0000-0002-2894-9707 (2015-11-30)This dissertation exams how the spread of imperialism in the British Atlantic led to the mass production and consumption of distilled spirits during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through transatlantic colonization, ... -
Louisiana Identity On Trial: The Superior Court Case Of Pierre Benonime Dormenon, 1790-1812
Johnson, Erica Robin (History, 2007-09-17)Louisiana and Saint-Domingue have intertwined histories with a number of similarities and periods of various interactions, most notably during the Haitian Revolution from 1791-1804 and the flight of refugees from Cuba from ... -
Organic Farmers, German Vintners, And The Atomic Monster Of Seabrook: A Trans-atlantic History Of Social Activism And Nuclear Power From New England To West Germany
Smith, David C.This study focuses on citizen intervention, direct action, and antinuclear activism from West Germany to New England in the twentieth century. Samuel Lovejoy's war against the nuke in Montague, the politicization of German ... -
Vanished Legacies And The Lost Culture Of I.M. Terrell High School In Segregated Fort Worth Texas
Wilson, Samuel A. (History, 2013-03-20)From 1954 until 1973, the Fort Worth Independent School District worked to adhere to the ruling of Brown v. Board and entered several years of litigation brought about by the NAACP and attorney Clifford L. Davis. The ...