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- 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...
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- 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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- 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...
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- 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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- “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...
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- 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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- 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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- 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:
- 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:
- 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...
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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:
- 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 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:
- 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, "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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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:
- 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
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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:
- 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:
- 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 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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 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:
- 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:
- 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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- Description:
- 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:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- 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:
- 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:
- This study examines how Latino migration politics developed in Chicago from the 1930s to the 1970s. Although scholars usually identify the emergence of Latino immigration activism in the 1960s and predominantly in the region of the Southwest with the farm workers movement, this study argues that immigration activism began much...
- Keyword:
- Immigration Activism, Social movement, Latino History, and Chicago social reform
- Subject:
- History and Hispanic American studies
- Creator:
- Santana-Rivera, Melissa
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662004 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14620
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- Description:
- My dissertation is entitled “Post-civil Rights in the Hold: Neoliberalism, Race and the Politics of Historical Memory in the Deep South.” Post-civil rights discourse as a specific object of investigation has been under theorized, it has primarily been understood as a fundamental marker of racial progress in the United States...
- Keyword:
- Southern Studies, Race, Immigration, Neoliberalism, Historical Memory, and Civil Rights
- Subject:
- African American studies, History, and Political science
- Creator:
- Foster, Theodore Roosevelt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14847 and etdadmin_upload_686541
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- Description:
- This dissertation, titled “The Rocket’s Red Glare: Global Power and the Rise of American State Technology, 1940-1960,” makes three distinct but interlocking historical interventions. First, it argues that the rise of technology as a central ideological component of global hegemony represents a historical contingency, rather than a reflexive characteristic of...
- Keyword:
- Anglo-American, Global power, Foreign relations, Hegemony, Statebuilding, and Technology
- Subject:
- History, Science history, and International relations
- Creator:
- Falcone, Michael Alan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14657 and etdadmin_upload_662729
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores an intellectual and political tradition that questioned the use of natural resources and the socioeconomic structures of rural Brazil in the early 20th century. “Organicist agrarianism” postulated an orderly transformation of the Brazil under the guidance of the state in the name of a natural and eternal...
- Keyword:
- Political history, Conservation, Intellectual history, Agrarianism, History of ideas, and Brazil
- Subject:
- History, Latin American history, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Bottura, Juri
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14522 and etdadmin_upload_639646
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- Description:
- This dissertation is a history of religious conservatism between 1880 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. Its main argument is that conservative religion in America, rather than being defined by fundamentalism, theological disputes, or cultural antipathy towards pluralism, was an outgrowth of a profound faith in capitalism...
- Keyword:
- Culture Wars, Conservatism, Fundamentalism, Capitalism, and Billy Sunday
- Subject:
- History and Religious history
- Creator:
- Noddings, Timothy Robert
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_657277 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14570
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- Description:
- This project traces the efforts by Scottish Protestants to achieve complete religious uniformity in the decades following the Reformation. Discontented with outward conformity, the via media that long characterized our understanding of religious reform in England, Scotland’s ministers sought to work genuine conversions among those who resisted the new order....
- Keyword:
- Kirk, Scotland, Catholics, Catholicism, Reformation, and Presbyterians
- Subject:
- History and European history
- Creator:
- Burns, Ryan Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_661778 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14612
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- Description:
- Judiciary at the Crossroads argues that a professional judiciary was able to restrain power, and thus lay the foundation for an independent judiciary and possible the rule of law later. Historical evidence comes from the performance of courts in property ordering projects launched by the governments in Taiwan and Manchuria...
- Keyword:
- Law, East Asia, Courts, and Property
- Subject:
- History
- Creator:
- Li, Teng
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_686268 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14833
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- Description:
- This dissertation traces the historical development of diasporic Filipino American activism after the watershed 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and during the military dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Philippines. Using multi-country archival research and approximately sixty oral history interviews, it analyzes labor, student, anti-dictatorship, and human rights activists...
- Keyword:
- Migration, Diaspora, Activism, Filipino American, Filipino, and Empire
- Subject:
- History, Asian American studies, and Ethnic studies
- Creator:
- Sales, Joy Nicolas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14618 and etdadmin_upload_661917
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- Description:
- 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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- Description:
- 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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- 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:
- 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:
- “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