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"If 3000 Men Were Unanimous On Any Subject, You Would Know At Once They Were Not Doctors": The Slow And Difficult Path To Professionalization Of Medicine In Texas
(History, 2007-08-23)This thesis seeks to explain the growing dominance of allopathic medicine and the struggle of professional organizations, such as the Texas Medical Association, for the professionalization of medicine. Chapter One illustrates ... -
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 ... -
Urban Rivalry In A Rural County: The Contest For Dominance Between Rockdale And Cameron In Milam County, Texas, 1873-1954
(History, 2007-08-23)Throughout the history of the United States, natural resources have played key roles in determining where towns are formed, and when towns will die. For just as long, waterways, roadways, and railroads have played an ... -
Early Belgian Colonial Efforts: The Long And Fateful Shadow Of Leopold I
(History, 2007-08-23)The continuing debate over the causes, effects and future implications of European colonialism and imperialism is perhaps best viewed through a transatlantic lens. The various phases of imperialism from 1415 through 1914 ... -
Mapping The "Red Menace": British And American News Maps In The Early Cold War Period, 1945-1955
(History, 2007-08-23)This study examines maps published by the national news press in Britain and the United States from 1945 to 1955. The author analyzes these maps to discern similarities and differences in how British and American news ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
Louisiana Identity On Trial: The Superior Court Case Of Pierre Benonime Dormenon, 1790-1812
(History, 2007-09-17)Louisiana and Saint-Domingue have intertwined histories with a number of similarities and periods of various interactions, most notably during the Haitian Revolution from 1791-1804 and the flight of refugees from Cuba from ... -
Reluctant Restorationist: Thomas Campbell's Trial and its Role in his Legacy
(History, 2008-04-22)In 1809, Thomas Campbell, with his son Alexander, founded an American religious movement that proposed the union of all Christians based upon the restoration of the New Testament church. The merging of this movement in ... -
They Don't Sing Like They Used To : Negro Soldier's Resistance To Jim Crow in 1898
(History, 2008-04-22)By the turn of the twentieth century, Negro troops began to resist Jim Crow laws in an organized way. While some historians have mentioned these racially motivated disturbances, many have failed to seriously analyze and ... -
Kiowa Changes: The Impact Of Transatlantic Influences
(History, 2008-04-22)This study uses a transatlantic interpretive framework, addressing both Euro-American and Kiowa voices to understand Kiowa reactions to changes caused by ongoing transatlantic influences. From their Paleolithic days, the ... -
Overcoming Triple Oppression: Identity, Power, And Feminism Among Women Of Mexican Ancestry In Texas, 1960-1980
(History, 2008-04-22)The Mexican American civil rights movement surfaced in the 1960s and 1970s as a direct response to blatant institutional discrimination and neglect. The participation of women within the movement, however, has been ... -
Dracula: From Historical Voievod To Fictional Vampire Prince
(History, 2008-08-08)Vlad Dracula was a fifteenth century historical prince in Wallachia, a part of modern day Romania. Prince Dracula was an ardent defender of Christendom, and staunch opponent of the expanding Ottoman Empire. However, ... -
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 ... -
The World War II Conferences In Washington, D.C. and Quebec City: Franklin D. Roosevelt And Winston S. Churchill
(History, 2008-08-08)This dissertation seeks to show the evolution of the diplomatic relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill from 1941-1945 based on the five conferences that were held in the Americas beginning in ... -
What Americans Said About Saxony, And What This Says About Them: Interpreting Travel Writings Of The Ticknors And Other Privileged Americans, 1800-1850
(History, 2008-08-08)In the first half of the nineteenth century, Saxony became an increasingly popular destination for American travelers. After first examining the forces behind the travel trends in order to provide historical context, this ... -
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 ...