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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; ... -
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 ... -
A Study In Married Women's Rights And Repatriation In The United States, The United Kingdom, And Latin America: Citizenship, Gender And The Law In Transatlantic Context
(History, 2014-09-17)During the first half of the twentieth century, the United States and Great Britain, fearing the dramatic changes occurring in the Atlantic world due to increased migration and threats from war, denied many of their female ... -
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 ... -
The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans and the Finnish Civil War
(2020-03-19)Historical research on Finnish migration and Finnish-Americans has, until recently, been carried out by members of the Finnish-American community and as such has written out the role of Finnish-Americans in the radical ... -
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 ... -
The Franco-American Love Affair: Transnational Courtship and Marriage Patterns during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(2017-10-16)This work deals with courtships and marriages that transcend national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. It deals with the formation of transnational families and transnational spaces. And finally, because the historical ... -
THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ENGLAND’S TRANSATLANTIC INTERESTS DURING THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII
(2019-05-07)This dissertation explores the birth of the English Atlantic by looking at English activities and discussions of the Atlantic world from roughly 1481-1560. Rather than being disinterested in exploration during the reign ... -
"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 ... -
“Tie the Flags Together”: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930
(2018-12-07)“Tie the Flags Together”: Migration, Nativism, and the Orange Order in the United States, 1840-1930 Cory Wells Throughout the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of Irish Protestants who migrated to the United States ... -
Transatlantic Brinksmanship: The Anglo-American Alliance And Conservative Ideology, 1953-1956
(History, 2012-04-11)The purpose of this transatlantic dissertation is to produce a new post-revisionist history of Anglo-American relations from 1953 to 1956 that seriously re-assesses Eisenhower's "middle path" foreign policy and the differing ... -
WAVING THE RED, BLACK, AND GREEN: THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL VISION OF THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION IN AKRON AND BARBERTON, OHIO
(2020-12-10)This micro study of the Akron and Barberton, Ohio, Divisions of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) adds to the understanding the geographic diversity of the Garvey Movement’s expansive reach. It begins to ... -
Working for Peanuts: Labor, Geography, and Class Composition in the American Circus Industry, 1872-1938
(2022-04-14)This dissertation focuses on class composition in the traveling circus in the Gilded Age (1870s-1900s), the Progressive Era (1890s-1910s), and the New Era (1920s-1930s). American circuses became industrial operations ... -
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 ... -
Wretches, Rogues, and Rebels: Smugglers in English Print Culture 1660-1766
(2021-12-08)This dissertation examines smugglers as they appeared in English print culture from their first appearance as "smuckellors" in a 1661 Royal Proclamation to 1766 when Parliament repealed the Revenue Act of 1764 amid protests ...