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The Chinese Labor Corps In The First World War: Forgotten Allies And Political Pawns
(History, 2010-03-03)
By the beginning of the twentieth century, China was considered the "Sick Man of Asia." Almost eighty percent of its territory and infrastructure were controlled by European powers and Japan. Although many anticipated ...
To Keep Those Red Lights Burning: Dallas' Response To Prostitution, 1874 to 1913
(History, 2010-03-03)
This thesis examines the responses of city leaders, purity reformers, and citizens to prostitution within two red-light districts in Dallas between the years 1874 and 1913. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...
British Influences On The American And Canadian West: Capital, Cattle, And Clubs, 1870-1910
(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 ...
"There Is Death In The Pot": Women, Consumption, And Free Produce In The Transatlantic World, 1791-1848
(History, 2010-11-01)
Abstention from slave-labor products, along with petitioning, was a popular and consistent form of anti-slavery activism for British and American abolitionists, especially women. Despite renewed interest in the British ...
"Independence, Liberty, And Justice": The Birth, Life, And Death Of Haden Edwards' Fredonian Rebellion
(History, 2010-03-03)
To populate Texas, the government of Mexico encouraged foreign empresarios like Stephen F. Austin to bring families and settle. One of those men, Haden Edwards, hoped to turn a profit with his grant in the area around ...
Romilly And Rush: The Parallel Paths Of Penal Reform In Britain And America, 1780 - 1830
(History, 2010-11-01)
After the end of the American Revolution, efforts were made in both American and in Britain to alter the penal code in order to reduce the number of offenses that carried the death penalty and to replace capital punishment ...
"Doubly Foreign:" British Consuls And Slavery In The Antebellum South, 1830 - 1860
(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 ...
True Barbarians?: The Role Of Visigothic Iberia In Medieval Persecutory Discourse
(History, 2010-07-19)
During the last twenty-five years, there has been wide-spread debate about the extent of the notion of persecution in medieval Europe. Those who believe that persecution existed deliberate to what extent, as well as when ...
Jennifer Guglielmo, Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945.
(York University, 2010)
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Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World
(The University of Texas at ArlingtonTexas A&M Press, 2010)
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