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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; ...
Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740
(2020-06-03)
In the last two years of the seventeenth century, approximately 3,000 people, mostly Scottish merchants, soldiers, sailors and their families, migrated to a small coastal region in central America for the purpose of ...
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 ...