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Manipulating Maria: Marie Antoinette's Image From Betrothal To Beheading And Beyond
(History, 2008-08-08)The shaping of Marie Antoinette's image began before her arrival at Versailles. Prior to her marriage, her mother, Austrian Empress Maria Theresa brought in experts to educate the Archduchess in the ways of life in the ... -
Naked And Alone In A Strange New World: Early Modern Captivity And Its Mythos In Ibero-American Consciousness
(History, 2008-09-17)This study compares and contrasts early modern (1500 - 1650) American captivity narratives of Jerónimo de Aguilar, Gonzalo Guerrero, Juan Ortiz, Cabeza de Vaca, Hans Stade, Hernando d'Escalante Fontaneda, Fray Francisco ... -
Symbol Of Conquest, Alliance, And Hegemony: The Image Of The Cross In Colonial Mexico
(History, 2008-09-17)The universality of the cross image within the transatlantic confrontation meant not only a hegemony of culture, but of symbolism. The symbol of the cross existed in both European and American societies hundreds of years ... -
Rural And Urban Boosterism In Texas, 1880s-1930s
(History, 2008-09-17)The second half of the nineteenth century saw a "civilizing" trend across the rural and urban West. In Texas boosters launched myriad campaigns emphasizing the close of the western frontier and the emergence of a more ... -
The Nadir Of Alliance: The British Ultimatum Of 1890 And Its Place In Anglo-Portuguese Relations, 1147- 1945
(History, 2008-09-17)As has been stated many times before, the Anglo-Portuguese alliance is the oldest pact still currently in force in the world. It has been the bedrock cornerstone of Lisbon's foreign policy as a means of insuring Portuguese ... -
English Opinions On The French Revolution
(History, 2009-09-16)Just as the French Revolution changed the French political landscape, it also affected other European countries such as England. Both pro-revolutionaries and anti-revolutionaries argued in the public forums the merits of ... -
Texas And The Good Roads Movement: 1895 To 1948
(History, 2009-09-16)The Good Roads Movement in America grew directly out of concerns over the debilitating effects of rural isolation. However, as each state faced its own unique challenges to the building and maintenance of roads, the early ... -
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 ... -
Shaping British Identity: Transatlantic Anglo-Spanish Rivalry In The Early Modern Period
(History, 2009-09-16)Traditional nationalism studies focus primarily on nineteenth-century developments of state-formation and the imposition of nationalistic compulsions from the top down. This study challenges that theoretical framework by ... -
"The End Followed In No Long Time": Byzantine Diplomacy And The Decline In Relations With The West from 962 to 1204
(History, 2009-09-16)From the time Otto the Great was proclaimed Western Emperor in 962 to the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, numerous ambassadors traveled east on errands from their principals. The diplomacy they ... -
How Maps Tell The Truth By Lying
(History, 2009-09-16)Maps do more than simply record geographical locations: maps link locations to the past and present, and even propose future possibilities. Maps graphically display information (or data) that is at once geographic, economic, ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ...