Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Author "Palmer, Stanley"
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Away O'er The Waves: The Transatlantic Life And Literature Of Captain Mayne Reid
Butler, Steven Ray (History, 2007-08-23)Although largely forgotten today, adventure novelist Mayne Reid, an Irish-born veteran of the United States' war with Mexico, was a household name on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean during the mid-to-late nineteenth ... -
British Influences On The American And Canadian West: Capital, Cattle, And Clubs, 1870-1910
Holzaepfel, Todd David (History, 2010-03-03)This dissertation seeks to show the evolution of the influence of British investment and culture in three representative regions in the American and Canadian West. The timeframe of the study corresponds roughly to the "Beef ... -
"Doubly Foreign:" British Consuls And Slavery In The Antebellum South, 1830 - 1860
Kinney, Michele Anders (History, 2010-11-01)Upon ending their slavery in the British West Indies in 1833, Great Britain became known as the "Great Emancipator." Britain immediately began an official foreign policy campaign to end the slave trade and slavery wherever ... -
How Methodists Were Made: The Arminian Magazine And Spiritual Transformation In The Transatlantic World, 1778-1803
Iwig-O'Byrne, Liam (History, 2008-08-08)This dissertation examines the spiritual autobiographies and biographies in The Arminian Magazine (later The Methodist Magazine) first published by John Wesley in 1778. The study covers such narratives through the year ... -
Performing Masculinity And Reconciling Class In The American West: British Gentlemen Hunters And Their Travel Accounts, 1865-1914
Kosc, Gregory (History, 2011-03-03)This dissertation investigates accounts by British gentlemen of the upper-middle and upper class, whose hunting narratives in the Western United States in the second half of the nineteenth century reveal their sentiments ... -
Reluctant Restorationist: Thomas Campbell's Trial and its Role in his Legacy
Brazell, Charles Franklin (History, 2008-04-22)In 1809, Thomas Campbell, with his son Alexander, founded an American religious movement that proposed the union of all Christians based upon the restoration of the New Testament church. The merging of this movement in ...