Browsing Department of History by Author "Zimmer, Kenyon"
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Determinants of Ethnic Retention As See Through Walloon Immigrants to Wisconsin
Tinkler, Jacqueline Lee; 0000-0001-6860-5637 (2019-05-02)This dissertation examines the unusually enduring retention of ethnic culture of the Walloon Belgian immigrants who settled in northeastern Wisconsin between 1853 and 1857, as well as the combination of circumstances which ... -
Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740
Bennett, Gina G (2020-06-03)In the last two years of the seventeenth century, approximately 3,000 people, mostly Scottish merchants, soldiers, sailors and their families, migrated to a small coastal region in central America for the purpose of ... -
Jennifer Guglielmo, Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945.
Zimmer, Kenyon (York University, 2010)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** -
“LANDS OF THE FUTURE:” GERMAN-SPEAKING IDENTITY, NETWORKS, AND TERRITORIALITY IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC, 1820-1930
Rispler, IsabelleThe movement of German-speakers to the South Atlantic did not begin with Nazis seeking refuge in Argentina in the aftermath of World War II, nor did it start with the organization of the German protectorate of South-West ... -
MAKING A NATION ABROAD: THE ROLE OF MIGRANT COLONIES IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ALBANIA
Salihi, Rufki (2017-08-15)This dissertation examines the crucial role of Albanian emigrants in the development of the Albanian National Movement, and the establishment of the modern state of Albania. It takes a transnational approach, by surveying ... -
Modern European Culture and the Making of Beyond Good and Evil
Webber, Jaryth (2019-05-07)Modern European Culture and the Making of Beyond Good and Evil offers a historical picture of nineteenth-century European culture by means of examining one of its chief artifacts, Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, ... -
OTHERNESS AND BELONGING IN “DEMOCRATIC EMPIRES”: THE SYRIAN DIASPORA AND TRANSATLANTIC DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY, 1890s-1930s
Garrett, Bryan A.; 0000-0001-6423-3813 (2016-08-15)This dissertation examines the arguments that Syrians in diaspora at the turn of the twentieth century used in constructing their group identity. It traces the transnational and transimperial discourses that centered on ... -
Project Jobs: Reagan, the INS, and Undocumented Workers in 1982
Scott-chaber, Meghan; 0009-0008-3508-9320 (2023-05-11)Using digitized archival material, newspaper articles, and court documents, this thesis examines a 1982 federal deportation campaign in the United States called “Project Jobs,” which resulted in the apprehension of an ... -
RADICALS ON THE MOVE: FRENCH MIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1850-1900
Swiney, Staci L.; 0000-0003-3255-5732 (2021-05-05)The following dissertation examines the activities of French radical migrants within the United States from 1850-1900. This dissertation illustrates that studying French migration highlights the interconnectedness and ... -
Settlement House Scenes: Migrants and the Performing Arts in Transatlantic Perspective
Goldin, Yevgeny (2016-05-10)This dissertation examines the transatlantic history of the settlement house movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has two foci. The first is the origin of the settlement movement, in Britain; ... -
The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans and the Finnish Civil War
Malmberg, Christopher (2020-03-19)Historical research on Finnish migration and Finnish-Americans has, until recently, been carried out by members of the Finnish-American community and as such has written out the role of Finnish-Americans in the radical ... -
“Tie the Flags Together”: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930
Wells, Cory D; 0000-0003-0509-1741 (2018-12-07)“Tie the Flags Together”: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930 Cory Wells Throughout the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of Irish Protestants who migrated to the United States ... -
Transatlantic History: Locating and Naming an Emergent Field of Study
Zimmer, Kenyon (Transatlantic History Student Organisation (THSO)Department of History, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This article outlines the contours of transatlantic history and identifies some of the works that fit within its parameters. It argues that transatlantic history ... -
The Walloon Immigrants Of Northeast Wisconsin: An Examination Of Ethnic Retention
Tinkler, Jacqueline Lee (History, 2013-07-22)This thesis examines the unusually enduring retention of ethnic culture by the Walloon Belgian immigrants who settled in northeastern Wisconsin between 1853 and 1857, as well as the combination of circumstances which enabled ... -
WAVING THE RED, BLACK, AND GREEN: THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL VISION OF THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION IN AKRON AND BARBERTON, OHIO
Sulik, Stephanie Theresa (2020-12-10)This micro study of the Akron and Barberton, Ohio, Divisions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) adds to the understanding the geographic diversity of the Garvey Movement’s expansive reach. It begins to ... -
Working for Peanuts: Labor, Geography, and Class Composition in the American Circus Industry, 1872-1938
Hansard, William James; 0000-0003-3268-5019 (2022-04-14)This dissertation focuses on class composition in the traveling circus in the Gilded Age (1870s-1900s), the Progressive Era (1890s-1910s), and the New Era (1920s-1930s). American circuses became industrial operations ...