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Description:: This dissertation documents the centrality of emotion to Americans’ understanding of, participation in, and critiques of the expanding economy in the first half of the nineteenth century. By then, many people viscerally understood that white men’s attempts to procure credit and escape debt could produce fear, anger, guilt, and sadness....
Keyword:: gender, United States, emotion, and capitalism
Subject:: American history and Gender studies
Creator:: McCoy, Laura
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:15273 and etdadmin_upload_764546

Description:: In the United States there is little material culture that foster youth share in common while in state custody. Removed from alleged circumstances of abuse or neglect, these young people frequently relocate between residential care settings like group homes, institutional treatment centers, or single family foster homes. Due to perpetual...
Keyword:: administration, materiality, United States, documents, bureaucracy, and foster care
Subject:: Social work
Creator:: Stubbs, Matilda
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_614326 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14392

Description:: Cultivating Citizens: Ecology and Nationality in U.S. Immigrant Literature explores how and why American ecosystems became objects of appreciation, intervention, and attachment within immigration literature published during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Fictional and nonfictional stories about US-bound immigrants represented naturalization and nationality as materializing through interactions within human/nonhuman assemblageswhat we...
Keyword:: citizenship, climate, immigration, ecocriticism, United States, and naturalization
Subject:: English
Creator:: Kellen Bolt
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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

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

Description:: What can the theatrical use of food accomplish in performances which assert cultural, legal, or moral rights to food production and consumption in a food insecure society? Case studies comprising the USDA's 1933-34 World's Fair exhibits, the May 1933 Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool protest, the 1936 Federal Theatre Project living...
Keyword:: History and United States
Subject:: Theatre and Drama
Creator:: Ann Eleanor Folino White
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 05/30/2018
Date Modified:: 05/30/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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