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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cold War rivalry and the perception of the American West: Why both westerners and easterners became cowboys and Indians
As the competing ideologies of the Cold War became crucial components of the rivalry, cultural influences gained symbolic power as well. American popular culture had such a tremendous impact upon Europe that the states of ...
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 ...
BLACK SKIN, WHITE MONEY: THE TRANSATLANTIC PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN TO RECOLONIZE WEST AFRICA, 1786 - 1863
(2020-06-05)
Previous scholarship has mostly left the story of recolonization of former slaves and Free People of Color to West Africa in the dustbin of history. These studies also have artificially separated the multiple failed attempts ...
FOOT-BALL! TURNING COLOMBIAN BOYS INTO PATRIOTIC MEN: HOW SPORT AND EDUCATION DEVELOPED WITH EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY COLOMBIAN NATIONALISM
(2021-08-10)
In 1948 a collection of ten football (soccer) teams from across Colombia joined together to form the División Mayor (Major League) the culmination of a thirty-year-long process to form a national league. Colombian sports ...
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 ...
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 ...