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- Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at...
- Keyword:
- fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
- Subject:
- History and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Berger, Alan L. and Aarons, Victoria
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3410-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3411-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3409-6
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Theaters of Citizenship investigates independent Egyptian performance practices from 2004 to 2014 to demonstrate how young dramatists staged new narratives of citizenship outside of state institutions, exploring rights claims and enacting generational identity. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book traces this avant-garde from the theater networks of the...
- Keyword:
- Egypt, Egyptian revolution, avant-garde, theater, ethnography, and performance
- Subject:
- History, Art, Middle Eastern, Performing arts, and Theater
- Creator:
- Pahwa, Sonali
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4177-3, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4176-6, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4175-9
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Shakespeare's Legal Ecologies examines the key role that the law and legal frameworks played in the ways Shakespeare explored character and selfhood.
- Keyword:
- English, law, philosophy, theater, Shakespeare, and performing arts
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Curran, Kevin
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3518-5, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3517-8, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3516-1
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Screening Auschwitz is the first and definitive discussion of the classic Polish Holocaust film The Last Stage (Ostatni etap). Directed by Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska, The Last Stage was the first film of its kind. Marek Haltof has incorporated a wealth of new sources to trace the creation of this...
- Keyword:
- film, cinema, Auschwitz, judaism, movies, and holocaust
- Subject:
- History and Performing arts
- Creator:
- Haltof, Marek
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3608-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3610-6, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3609-0
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Muslims in Kenyan Politics explores the changing relationship between Muslims and the state in Kenya from precolonial times to the present, culminating in the radicalization of a section of the Muslim population in recent decades. The politicization of Islam in Kenya is deeply connected with the sense of marginalization that...
- Keyword:
- colonialism, Muslims, politics, and Kenya
- Subject:
- History, Law, and Africa
- Creator:
- Ndzovu, Hassan J.
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/19/2023
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3002-9 and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6787-2
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and Will the future be one of economic expansion, greater tolerance, liberating inventions, and longer, happier lives? Or do we face economic stagnation, declining quality of life, and a technologically enhanced totalitarianism worse than any yet seen? The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040 draws its inspiration from a...
- Keyword:
- Twenty-first century, forecasting, and social prediction
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Schapiro, Morton and Morson, Gary Saul
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/08/2022
- Date Modified:
- 07/14/2022
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3197-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3198-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3196-5
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- Since the official adoption of the Islamic legal system by the state governments in Northern Nigeria, Islamic figures in the religious public sphere have amplified their censure of homosexuality as a 'social illness' and 'depravity of depravities' incommensurable with the ethics that govern the discourse on gender and sexuality in...
- Keyword:
- afrisem and gender and sexuality studies
- Subject:
- History, Religion, and Gender studies
- Creator:
- Abdulbasit Kassim
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/18/2020
- Date Modified:
- 09/18/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Resource Type:
- Video
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- It is no secret that Southeast Asia has long been a major source of opium production, providing a lucrative enterprise for European empires in the 19th-20th century. The “Golden Triangle” region, where Myanmar, Laos and Thailand’s borders meet has been one of the world’s largest opium producers since the 1950s....
- Keyword:
- Southeast Asia, Historiography, Addiction, Southeast Asian Literature, Opium, and History
- Subject:
- History and Literature
- Creator:
- Fiona Asokacitta
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/08/2020
- Date Modified:
- 07/23/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-12-10
- Resource Type:
- Conference Proceeding
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- Convent education was financially accessible to many girls whose families could not afford a private tutor and nuns were the largest group of educated, culturally-active women in pre-modern Europe. Convent education mirrored the general contours of humanist education by associating learning with morality, serving the purposes of the Venetian republic,...
- Keyword:
- nuns, feminism, Italy, women's education, convents, and early modern Venice
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Charlotte Cover Moy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/24/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Holy Mediocrity: Saintly Matrons and the Dominicans in Late Medieval Italy', 'Julia Lauren Miglets', 'The task of this study is to explain why a cluster of female saints who were noted not for their miracles but for the moderate even boring quality of their sanctity, a paradigm I call holy...
- Keyword:
- marriage, Italy, Villana delle Botti, tertiaries, women, and medieval
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Julia Lauren Miglets
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/14/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/20/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In the wake of Hurricane Katrinas dramatic demographic changes, scholars, journalists, and politicians have discussed Mexican migration to New Orleans as a new phenomenon and an unwelcome threat to the citys social order, rich culture, and tourist economy. This dissertation challenges these ideas and demonstrates some of the myriad ways...
- Keyword:
- Cultural Brokers, Borderlands, Music, Mexico, and New Orleans
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Valeria Priscilla Jimanez
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- A spokesman for the American Revolution, John Adams, famously claimed that a third of colonists supported independence, a third supported Britain, and a third remained neutral. Since then historians have struggled to understand the mixed loyalties of the Revolutionary generation. "The Popular Politics of Loyalism During the American Revolution, 1774-1790,"...
- Keyword:
- Popular Politics, Loyalism, Loyalist, and American Revolution
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Christopher James Macintosh Sparshott
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The unprecedented crimes of World War Two, especially those committed by the Nazi state, unleashed an equally unprecedented effort to hold perpetrators accountable and secure justice for millions of victims. This effort encompassed hundreds of trials of thousands of individuals in the immediate postwar period and continues to the present...
- Keyword:
- Holocaust, Nazis, War Crimes Trials, British Occupation, Royal Warrant, and World War Two
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Beth A. Healey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation asks how a dynamic of vengeance involving the United States and anti-imperialist political organizations in the Middle East emerged and persisted between the 1967 Middle East war and the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in December 2001. It tracks the construction of channels—ideological, institutional, emotional, and personal—through...
- Keyword:
- chains, channels, vengeance, anti-imperialism, national security, and Middle East
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Alex Hobson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/18/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The renewed scholarly interest in the connections between taxation, state building efforts, and long-term economic development has revitalized the study of historical tax systems. How did today’s states initially acquire ‘fiscal capacity’, and why was this process more successful in some places than in others? Since African tax systems are...
- Keyword:
- colonialism, Africa, forced labor, and taxation
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Marlous van Waijenburg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation provides an account of the richest people in Glasgow and Liverpool at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. It focuses on those in shipping, trade, and shipbuilding, who had global interests and amassed large fortunes. It examines the transition away from family business...
- Keyword:
- Glasgow, Family, Britain, Business, and Liverpool
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Emma Elizabeth Goldsmith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/11/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/30/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that by examining the networks and advocacy of Americans interested in Lebanon and Lebanese with ties to the U.S., scholars can better understand how relationships cultivated away from the spotlight of policymaker attention have both guided and revealed the limitations of U.S. empire. Activists, both Lebanese and...
- Keyword:
- U.S. in the World, Lebanon, and 1980s
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Laila Ballout
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-12-21
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines the gradual construction and contested meanings of U.S. slavery’s first western border. According to most historiography, Congress’s Northwest Ordinance of 1787 fixed the meaning of this border at the nation’s inception, constituting the Northwest Territory as the free opposite of slave territories south and west of the...
- Keyword:
- Northwest Ordinance, Slavery, Illinois, Law and Society, Emancipation,, and Missouri
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Jesse Nasta
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/09/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In March 1977 an exceptionally strong earthquake struck Romania ruled by the communist president and dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu and his regime. The policies and actions implemented and undertaken in the days, weeks, and year that followed were forms of aftershocks. The Ceauşescu regime modeled the 1977 earthquake recovery on previous...
- Keyword:
- Nicolae Ceauşescu, Disaster Response, Urban History, Romania, 1977 Earthquake, and Communism
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Karin Steinbrueck
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/29/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- “The Vicarious Middle Ages” investigates the religious and cultural history of proxy penance where medieval Christians believed that it was possible to suffer on behalf of another person. In proxy penance, one person completed a penitential work for another, who received the spiritual benefit. From the third until the sixteenth...
- Keyword:
- Proxy, Pilgrimage, Empathy, Beguine, Theology, and Penance
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Gavin Fort
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/13/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation investigates the evolution of national identification and assimilative trends among Germans who remained behind in the Czech lands from the end of the postwar expulsions in 1946 through the Czech Republic’s entry to the European Union in 2004. My primary lens of analysis is associational life, or formal...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Payson B Croy
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- During the eighteenth century, European trade with Asia was characterized by the importation of sophisticated manufactured goods in exchange for silver. The features of Euro-Asian trade testify to the vitality of the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese economies in the period before the Great Divergence. Many European observers, however, mistook them...
- Keyword:
- France, India, Great Divergence, Orientalism, and eighteenth-century
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Blake Smith
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/18/2018
- Date Modified:
- 01/28/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation traces the influence of Botatwe farmers' hunting, fishing, and foraging activities on economic, political, and social life over the course of three millennia by weaving together evidence from historical linguistics, archaeology, and palaeoclimatology. While the spread and intensification of farming and trade are often used to explain political...
- Keyword:
- Hunting and Fishing, Historical Linguistics, Politics, Food, and Ancient Central Africa
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Kahtryn de Luna
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In a 1980 campaign speech to veterans, Ronald Reagan declared that the United States suffered from a "Vietnam syndrome." The war in Vietnam, Reagan said, had harmed American political life and made the public wary of the aggressive foreign policies Reagan believed were necessary to win the Cold War. I...
- Keyword:
- United States and History
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Charlotte Cahill
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 10/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-08
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study explores how the world of popular science helped forge a new civic culture during the tumultuous decades of the mid-eighteenth century. I trace the activities of a wide cast of characters in both England and America, revealing the contours of a tightly knit community of scientists, merchants, doctors,...
- Keyword:
- popular science, social networks, improvement, and British imperialism
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Michael Benjamin Guenther
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Forest Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial Kenya, 1940-1990s Alphonse Omondi Otieno In the period 1940-1990s, the Kenyan forestry policy evolved from an emphasis on preservation to a combination of programs which embodied both rural Africans' interests and practices and state interests in environmental issues. Using four cases from the western...
- Keyword:
- History, yPreservation, Intersections, Forestr, Negotiations, Contests, and African
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Alphonse Omondi Otieno
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-07-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- Between 1569 and 1582, the inquisitorial court of the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples undertook a series of trials against a powerful and wealthy group of Spanish immigrants in Naples for judaizing, the practice of Jewish rituals. The immense scale of this campaign and the many complications that resulted render it...
- Keyword:
- New Christians, Catholic Church, Inquisition, Naples, and Italy
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Peter Akawie Mazur
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-06
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the participation of tens of thousands of African-American servicemen in the occupation of Japan and the Korean war. It poses three questions: how were black servicemen incorporated into a postwar military empire; how did they help shape their nation's expanding Asian protectorate; and how did they understand...
- Keyword:
- History and United States
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Michael Cullen Green
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In Muslim West Africa, food-producing villages also produced literate scholars. This study examines how such unlikely intellectuals acquired and gave meaning to Islamic knowledge through one village's experience from 1900 to the 1960s. Unlike the colonial sources underlying conventional approaches to West African Islam, libraries and oral sources from Ruumde...
- Keyword:
- Islam, Literacy, and Mali
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Jeremy Brandt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This project argues that displays of humanist learning in diplomacy served to demonstrate the extraordinary good will of the Florentine regime towards a host ruler. I call this act of surpassing previous oratorical gestures a "cultural gift". Although the singular goal of humanism in diplomacy remained offering cultural gifts in...
- Keyword:
- Oratory, Gift, Florence, Diplomacy, Renaissance, and Humanism
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Brian Maxson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-24
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- "How did the Civil Rights Movement bring about change?" In answer to that question, this dissertation argues that the splintering of purity rhetoric within the intimate environments of home and sanctuary both inhibited and empowered white and African-American religious practitioners to seek social change. To make this argument, this project...
- Keyword:
- Mennonites, Race, Purity, Racism, Civil Rights Movement, and African-Americans
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Tobin Miller Shearer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-03-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The last two decades in nineteenth-century West Africa witnessed a two-fold movement, namely the territorial expansion of French colonial empire and the first attempts to extend biomedicine through mass vaccination to control smallpox epidemics. This study provides both a deep history and conceptual framework to analyze the relationship between the...
- Keyword:
- Smallpox, Colonial Medicine, Guinea, French West Africa, Senegal, and Vaccination
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Christopher Ellis Hayden
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-01-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
-
Breathing the Freedom's Air": The African American Struggle for Equal Citizenship in Iowa, 1830-1900
- Description:
- This dissertation explores a seventy-year period of community growth and activism among African Americans in nineteenth-century Iowa, showing how citizenship was defined, contested, expanded and confined. Antebellum black migrants lived on the margins of a hostile society and struggled for equal citizenship using their labor, their community institutions, the legal...
- Keyword:
- African-American, Iowa, Midwest, Black, and History
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- David Brodnax
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation, "Myth and the Modern Problem: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain," argues that a widespread phenomenon best described as "mythic thinking" emerged in the early twentieth century as way for a variety of thinkers and key cultural groups to frame and articulate their anxieties about, and their responses to,...
- Keyword:
- twentieth century, intellectuals, modernity, Britain, and myth
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Matthew Kane Sterenberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/30/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This study explores the history of Bugwere, Busoga and Buganda, societies in present-day east-central Uganda, from the late first millennium and it does so through a focus on motherhood. Motherhood - as ideology and biology - impacted on almost every aspect of life in these societies, but did so in...
- Keyword:
- Historical Linguistics, Gender, Precolonial History, Social Reproduction, and Uganda
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Rhiannon Stephens
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-12-04
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the history of Mexicans' changing racial status in the Chicago metropolitan region, a place where race has traditionally been understood in strictly black and white terms. From World War I through the 1930's whites violently resisted Mexicans moving into their neighborhoods in Chicago, East Chicago, and Gary,...
- Keyword:
- immigration, housing, Mexican Americans, whiteness, race, and Chicago
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Michael T.M. McCoyer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-11-20
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- In the Old Northwest, networks of activists across dispersed communities took controversial direct action against prejudice and slavery. By largely eschewing the growing cities that disproved the Old Northwest rule, this is a study of reform as it would have impacted most people, at the local level in the smaller...
- Keyword:
- abolition, race, black laws, freedom of speech, grassroots activism, and mob violence
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Dana Elizabeth Weiner
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-07-31
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the transformation of the city-state of Florence from a republic to a principality during the first half of the sixteenth century. It explores how this fundamental change in political organization altered the culture and society of the Florentine office-holding class. The dissertation describes the course of socio-cultural...
- Keyword:
- History
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Nicholas Scott Baker
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-11
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation examines the nature and development of Protestant ideology in Tudor England. Historians have traditionally seen Tudor Protestants as classic "magisterial" reformers. Unlike "radical reformers," who formed separated sects and rejected the union of church and state, English Protestants are seen as deeply committed to royal authority and the...
- Keyword:
- History and European
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Karl Alexander Gunther
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/05/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- The purpose of this project is to investigate the lack of significant reform regarding women’s issues during the perestroika period. Part one establishes the foundational ideology by analyzing Marxist and Leninist ideas on women and comparing them to official Soviet doctrine as established by government officials and leading scholars. Also...
- Keyword:
- Russia, glasnost, feminism, Soviet government, Soviet women's history, Russian women, Soviet women, women's rights, Soviet Union, Russian women's history, women's history, socialist feminism, contraceptives, condoms, population control, contraception, Soviet society, and birth control
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Bailey Sutton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Project
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- Description:
- Each successive wave of immigrants to America has faced prejudice founded in fear and uncertainty. Immigrants from Italy were particularly discriminated against in the early years of their arrival, from 1880 through 1920. They faced violence, racial slurs, and media attacks based on an unsubstantiated stereotype of criminality. This project...
- Keyword:
- race, immigration, ethnicity, Cleveland, Italian, Italian-American, whiteness, industrial, and Midwest
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Isabel Robertson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-06-02
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This thesis analyzes the role segregation and white flight played in the development of New York City’s suburban Westchester County, particularly in regards to how white flight from (and within) New Rochelle during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s was presaged by the racial reification of the suburb’s communal boundaries during...
- Keyword:
- New York Westchester & Boston Railroad, Urban Renewal, Westchester County, Segregation, Housing, White Flight, Scarsdale, and Suburban Development
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Kevin M. Slack
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-05-31
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the extent to which Portuguese theologian, papal penitentiary, bishop, and abbot Andreas de Escobar, O.S.B. (1348-1448) benefited from contemporary trends in manuscript culture and thereby functioned as a late-medieval public intellectual. Recent research suggests that early-fifteenth-century university-trained theology masters used their expertise and authority to intervene into...
- Keyword:
- manuscripts, Benedictine order, curia, Great Schism, conciliarism, and theology
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Johanna Leigh Sturgeon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores black litigation strategies, black legal culture, and the effect of black litigation on civil law. Not only did African Americans sue white southerners and white-owned companies for white-on-black violence under Jim Crow, they shared their collective legal knowledge through a network of black newspapers and contributed to...
- Keyword:
- civil litigation, sue, rights of personhood, damages, violence, and legal culture
- Subject:
- African American studies, History, and Law
- Creator:
- Eatmon, Myisha S.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764297 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15265
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores the reciprocal relationship between international politics and digital computation since the 1960s by examining the first attempts to use computer simulation to credibly forecast our planet’s economic and environmental future on a global scale. In particular, this project offers the first sustained historical analysis of the origins...
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Baker, Kevin Thomas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_679558 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14768
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- Description:
- Histories of digital media, software, and computing are inseparable from histories of queer and transgender life. Stored in Memory: Recovering Queer and Transgender Life in Software History situates visual media like video glitch art, the computer’s graphical user interface, video games, and computer operating systems as the product of historical...
- Keyword:
- Software Studies, Queer Theory, Transgender (Trans) Studies, Media Studies, Media History, and Video Game Studies
- Subject:
- History, LGBTQ studies, and Communication
- Creator:
- Pow, Whitney Kristin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764549 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15274
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- Description:
- Celebrity, reputation, and identity were complex issues for nineteenth-century British actresses. This dissertation examines how actresses responded to, integrated, and defied gender norms and social structures as they performed “authentic” identities for consuming publics. I investigate how actresses participated in charity events and bazaars, autobiographical writing, and advertising campaigns in...
- Keyword:
- Identity, Victorian, Reputation, Celebrity, Actresses, and England
- Subject:
- History, Theater, and Theater history
- Creator:
- Kelly, Lisa Michelle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_667794 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14707
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- Description:
- “Musical Networks in Bergamo and the Borders of the Venetian Republic, 1580–1630,” examines the mediation and circulation of northern Italian music through social and professional networks with an emphasis on Bergamo, a thriving musical center during this period. In so doing, I challenge established narratives of early modern history that...
- Keyword:
- Early Modern Italy, Sixteenth-Century Music, Seventeenth-Century Music, Giovanni Cavaccio, Bergamo, and Venetian Republic
- Subject:
- History, European history, and Music history
- Creator:
- Rosenholtz-Witt, Jason
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_764519 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15270
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- Description:
- This dissertation argues that the convergence of industrialized wage-labor, increased economic precariousness, close and partisan elections, and weak ballot laws dramatically increased the incidence of economic voter intimidation between 1873 and 1896. When this form of coercion primarily affected African American voters, as it did in the 1860s, politicians did...
- Keyword:
- elections, coercion, secret ballot, labor, race, and voter intimidation
- Subject:
- History, American history, and Political science
- Creator:
- Cohn-Postar, Gideon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15213 and etdadmin_upload_759978
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- Description:
- Prisoner reentry has become an increasingly popular topic of research in the past few decades due to the phenomenon of mass return as a result of the era of mass incarceration. While research has been done on the experiences of the returning population before mass incarceration, few contemporary researchers have...
- Keyword:
- War on Poverty, prisons, religion, and reentry
- Subject:
- History, Criminology, and Sociology
- Creator:
- Brown, Karlia Nicole
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16671 and etdadmin_upload_1004192