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An "Absent Presence": An Internal History Of Insular Jewish Communities Prior To Expulsion In 1290
(History, 2009-09-16)This thesis, based on a study based on the legal and popular documents regarding Jews and Judaism in thirteenth-century England, argues that the Expulsion of the Insular Jews in 1290 was not just a financial decision as ... -
Adventurers and Autocrats: The Role of Authority in the Making of the English West Indies, 1595-1655
(2022-08-25)After Walter Ralegh made his famous journey to the Orinoco in 1595, English adventurers began the haphazard process of colonizing the West Indies. Initially they tried to follow Ralegh’s efforts in Guiana, but their every ... -
African American Women's Resistance in the Aftermath of Lynching
(2019-12-16)This thesis focuses on resistance strategies used by African American women in the aftermath of lynching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the ways in which those strategies were shared, ... -
An Intimate Relationship: Medical Theory, The Environment, And Hospitals
(2022-08-08)Prior to the full acceptance of bacteriology in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, medicine relied heavily upon the natural environment and cultivating flora from various regions around the world to implement ... -
Away O'er The Waves: The Transatlantic Life And Literature Of Captain Mayne Reid
(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 ... -
BLACK SKIN, WHITE MONEY: THE TRANSATLANTIC PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO RECOLONIZE WEST AFRICA, 1786 - 1863
(2020-06-05)Previous scholarship has mostly left the story of recolonization of former slaves and Free People of Color to West Africa in the dustbin of history. These studies also have artificially separated the multiple failed attempts ... -
The Bordes-binford Debate: Transatlantic Interpretive Traditions In Paleolithic Archaeology
(History, 2009-09-16)In the 1960s, Lewis Binford, a young American archaeologist, challenged François Bordes, a venerable French prehistorian, over the interpretation of a taxonomy Bordes had developed to describe stone tools of the European ... -
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 ... -
Camp Wolters: A History of the US Army's Relationship with Mineral Wells, Texas
(2022-05-16)This thesis documents the Army's contributions to the town of Mineral Wells, Texas by locating the army camp of Camp Wolters there during WWII. -
Cannibalism In A Cultural Context: Cartographic Imagery And Iconography Of The New World Indigenous Peoples During The Age Of Discovery
(History, 2007-08-23)This dissertation seeks to explore the imagery of the indigenous peoples as cannibals on the fifteenth-century cartography of the New World. This imagery represented the Amerindians of the South American interior on maps ... -
The Cartography Of Alexander von Humboldt: Images Of The Enlightenment In America
(History, 2008-08-08)The Cartography of Alexander von Humboldt: Images of the Enlightenment in America offers a cartographic perspective of Alexander von Humboldt's journey to the Americas, 1799-1804. Presented in the context of the European ... -
Catchin' Babies: African American Midwives, Maternity Care, And Public Health Debates In The Jim Crow South, 1920-1970
Much of the scholarly research on African American midwifery in the Jim Crow South has been focused on the traditionally prestigious role of lay midwives, and the way in which these women were forced into obsolescence by ... -
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 ... -
Cold War rivalry and the perception of the American West: Why both westerners and easterners became cowboys and Indians
As the competing ideologies of the Cold War became crucial components of the rivalry, cultural influences gained symbolic power as well. American popular culture had such a tremendous impact upon Europe that the states of ... -
"Commies And Queers": Narratives That Supported The Lavender Scare
(History, 2007-09-17)In the early 1950s, the perceived threat of communists and homosexuals loomed large over the United States. The U.S. press presented narratives that portrayed communists and homosexuals in remarkably similar language that ... -
Conquest, Colonization, And The Cross: Religious Aspects Of The Conquest And Colonization Of Honduras
(History, 2011-07-14)Religiosity pervades the conquest and colonization of Honduras. The secular church, the missionaries, and the colonial aristocracy all played vital roles in the process. The Hispanic social consciousness emerged out of ... -
Constitutionalism, Social Democracy, And Nationalism, And The First Communist Movement In Iran, 1905-1921
(History, 2007-08-23)Western expansion into Iran during the latter half of the nineteenth century had a significant impact on the country's social, economic, and political development. By the turn of the century, Western ideas of constitutionalism ... -
Cord Of Empire, Exotic Intoxicant: Hemp And Culture In The Atlantic World, 1600-1900
Hemp is a genetically diverse plant that has been used by a variety of different cultures for different purposes over the course of thousands of years. Until the nineteenth century, though, most Europeans understood it ... -
Cornflakes, God, and Circumcision: John Harvey Kellogg and Transatlantic Health Reform
(2019-05-09)The health reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century impacted American and European societies in profound ways. These reforms, while usually represented in a national context, existed within a transatlantic ... -
Determinants of Ethnic Retention As See Through Walloon Immigrants to Wisconsin
(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 ...