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Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy
(University of Texas at ArlingtonTexas A&M PressDigital Creation Department, Central Library, University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1985)the essays in this volume were originally delivered as the eighteenth annual Webb Lectures. Barbara J. Fields, of the University of Michigan, Thavolia Glymph, of the University of Texas at Arlington, Armstead L. Robinson, ... -
Essays on Urban America
(The University of Texas at ArlingtonThe University of Texas Press, Austin & LondonDigital Creation Department, Central Library, The University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1975)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** -
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb
(The University of Texas at ArlingtonThe University of Texas Press, Austin & LondonDigital Creation Department, Central Library, The University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1976)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** -
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb and the Teaching of History
(University of Texas at ArlingtonTexas A&M PressDigital Creation Department, Central Library, University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1985) -
“EVERY GOOD MAN IS A QUAKER, AND THAT NONE BUT GOOD MEN ARE QUAKERS”: TRANSATLANTIC QUAKER HUMANITARIANS, DISABILITY, AND MARKETING ENLIGHTENED REFORM, 1730-1834
(2016-02-24)This dissertation explores how Quaker humanitarians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries actively absorbed and employed emerging Enlightenment discourses about “disability” and human dependency as a means to build ... -
The Fall of the Herrera Government
(The University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at ArlingtonThe University of Texas at Arlington Central Library, 2012)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** -
Fear Of "unnatural Acts": Law And Sexuality In London, 1500-1800
(History, 2014-07-14)Eighteenth-century London experienced a prosecution wave attempting to eradicate sodomy from the city. Discovered and exposed to the public by journalists, the "public outing" of molly houses and their patrons made them ... -
Fiends Who Bear The Shapes Of Men: Case Studies On White Male And Black Female Relationships In The South
(History, 2007-08-23)Slave women resisted being sexually dominated by white men, by refusing to accept that their lives were beyond their control. By examining cases of slave women who resisted white sexually assertive men, I will display how ... -
FISH WORTH FIGHTING FOR: THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES (1500-1800)
(2021-05-13)The Atlantic cod that swam in the Grand Banks and along the coasts of Newfoundland played a significant role in the British Empire. The Newfoundland fisheries that developed following European exploration of the region in ... -
The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South
(The University of Texas at ArlingtonTexas A&M PressDigital Creation Department, Central Library, The University of Texas at ArlingtonDepartment of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2012)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** -
FOOT-BALL! TURNING COLOMBIAN BOYS INTO PATRIOTIC MEN: HOW SPORT AND EDUCATION DEVELOPED WITH EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY COLOMBIAN NATIONALISM
(2021-08-10)In 1948 a collection of ten football (soccer) teams from across Colombia joined together to form the División Mayor (Major League) the culmination of a thirty-year-long process to form a national league. Colombian sports ... -
From Reynolds To Lawrence To Brown v. Buhman: Antipolygamy Statutes Sliding On The Slippery Slope Of Same-sex Marriage
In 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas (striking Texas' sodomy law), Justice Scalia predicted in his dissent the end of all morals legislation. If Justice Scalia is correct most, if not all, morals-based legislation may fall. For ... -
The General Cinema Northpark I & II: A Case Study Of A Third Generation Movie Theater
The purpose of this thesis is to present a typology of movie exhibition eras and then explore one of those eras in greater detail by studying a specific market and theater within that market. This methodology allows for ... -
Giovanni Battista Ramusio And The History Of Discoveries: An Analysis Of Ramusio's Commentary, Cartography, and Imagery in Delle Navigationi et Viaggi
(History, 2007-09-17)Giovanni Battista Ramusio was a sixteenth-century Venetian scholar who was very interested in the studies of geography and cartography. Ramusio's keen interest was in the findings of travelers and explorers to all parts ... -
"God Help Us, We Are The Press!": Public Perception Of The Branch Davidian Conflict
(History, 2013-07-22)Public perception of the 1993 Branch Davidian conflict, particularly as it developed well after the event, helped to alter government policy toward New Religious Movements. Prior to the investigations following the conflict, ... -
The Great War On Film: Examining The Cinematic Variations Of Three Films On The 1916 Battle Of The Somme
(History, 2014-07-14)Propaganda has been an integral part of human history, and while the documentation of conflict through film began in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was not until the First World War that the production and ... -
The Heir And The Spare: Education And Preparation Among England's "Sudden Monarchs"
(History, 2013-07-22)The English royal family is experiencing a recent surge of popularity. Though they no longer personally govern England, their role is still crucial within the country. The current heir to the throne, Prince Charles, is ... -
How Maps Tell The Truth By Lying
(History, 2009-09-16)Maps do more than simply record geographical locations: maps link locations to the past and present, and even propose future possibilities. Maps graphically display information (or data) that is at once geographic, economic, ... -
How Methodists Were Made: The Arminian Magazine And Spiritual Transformation In The Transatlantic World, 1778-1803
(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 ... -
How To Make A Foreign Idea Your Own: Argentine Identity And The Role Soccer Played In Its Formation
(History, 2014-12)Since Spanish-speaking Latin America achieved independence from Spain the question has been whether to follow the North American or European example. Do the new republics embrace the Old World with its aristocracy or the ...