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Performing Masculinity And Reconciling Class In The American West: British Gentlemen Hunters And Their Travel Accounts, 1865-1914
(History, 2011-03-03)
This dissertation investigates accounts by British gentlemen of the upper-middle and upper class, whose hunting narratives in the Western United States in the second half of the nineteenth century reveal their sentiments ...
"What Change Hath God Wrought?": How Gender And The Environment Shaped New England Praying Town Identity And Created A Christian Indian Elect
(History, 2011-07-14)
By the 1780s, Christian Indians from praying towns throughout Southern New England accepted an invitation to reside amongst fellow Christianized Oneida in upstate New York. While all parties agreed to live as one "body" ...
Race And Cricket: The West Indies And England At Lord's, 1963
(History, 2011-10-11)
Cricket became a sport in which there was a clear separation based on race and class; and these distinctions initially determined function within the sport. In England, where the distinction was based mostly on class, the ...
The Prison On The Moor: A Study Of The American Prisoner-of-war Experience Within Dartmoor Prison, 1813-1815
(History, 2011-07-14)
The War of 1812 is a conflict best characterized by two adjectives: ironic and forgotten. Conventional histories of the War of 1812 focus almost exclusively on the land engagements of the war, despite the occurrence of ...
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 ...
Saviors In The South: Restoring Humanity To Irish Famine Immigrants in New Orleans, 1847-1880
(History, 2011-03-03)
My thesis begins in during the Irish Famine in 1847, and follows Irish emigrants across the Atlantic Ocean to New Orleans where they faced disease, poverty, and prejudice. During the Irish famine, epidemics struck across ...
Place-names, Conquest, And Empire: Spanish And Amerindian Conceptions Of Place In The New World
(History, 2011-09-12)
This research corrects the one-sided historiography of toponyms in the New World, which focus only on the European imposition of place-names, viewed by many postmodernist scholars as a way to oppress and suppress the native ...