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“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 ...
¿MI TIERRA, TAMBIÉN? MEXICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS IN FORT WORTH, 1940-1990s
(2016-09-15)
This thesis focuses on the city of Fort Worth during the second half of the twentieth-century and provides an analysis for how the struggles of the Mexican American population were shaped by the long history of discrimination ...
OTHERNESS AND BELONGING IN “DEMOCRATIC EMPIRES”: THE SYRIAN DIASPORA AND TRANSATLANTIC DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY, 1890s-1930s
(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 ...
Settlement House Scenes: Migrants and the Performing Arts in Transatlantic Perspective
(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 Untold Story of Economic Conflict in the Second Great War: Battle to Bretton Woods, Rhetoric of the Marshall Plan, George F. Kennan, John Maynard Keynes, and Disregarded Origins of the Cold War
(2016-05-12)
Reflecting back in his Memoirs, George F. Kennan, wrote that the document that propelled his career was dispatched after a telegram informed the U.S. embassy in Moscow that the “Russians were evidencing an unwillingness ...
Man of Virtue, Man of Vice: Maximilien Robespierre and Modern Manhood
(2016-09-15)
Since his death in 1794, Maximilien Robespierre’s legacy has been debated
by scholars and non-scholars alike. Some have called him a blood-thirsty dictator
who used his political power to execute innocent citizens who ...
In Pueblo's Wake; Flawed Leadership and the Role of Juche in the Capture of the USS Pueblo
(2016-11-30)
On January 23, 1968, North Korea attacked and seized an American Navy spy ship, the USS Pueblo. In the process, one American sailor was mortally wounded and another ten crew members were injured, including the ship's ...
THE CINÉ “NEVER SETS…”: BRITISH CINEMA AS A TRANSATLANTIC CULTURAL COMMODITY, 1927-1938
(2016-05-10)
This dissertation exemplifies how the application of a transatlantic commodity approach can broaden understanding of film as a mass medium, its business, and its cultural influences. By employing a more inclusive national ...