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Description:: Between 1815 and 1830, the western Atlantic experienced a surge in maritime piracy. The United States was confronted with the ancient specter of hostis humani generis, the enemy of all, which threatened the safety and prosperity of the young maritime nation. Questions emerged: Who was responsible for policing international waters?...
Keyword:: postsovereignty, universal jurisdiction, nineteenth century, rhetoric, sovereignty, and piracy
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Robert Elliot Mills
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/22/2019
Date Modified:: 02/22/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This study examines rhetorical practices through which disenfranchised women developed tenable political identities and integrated themselves into the public realm in the Pacific Northwest between 1868 and 1912. Through close analysis of rhetorical activities in which thousands of women participated--including club discourse, public commemoration, legal advocacy, petition work, and publication--it...
Keyword:: woman's rights, social movements, Washington, rhetoric, suffrage, and Oregon
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Cindy Koenig Richards
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/07/2018
Date Modified:: 09/07/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This project examines the relationship between graphic design and public life in an effort to understand how graphic design functions as a mode of communication, how visual images present interpretive problems for communication scholarship, and how the increasing presence of visual images in public space inform and are informed by...
Keyword:: graphic design, billboards, public sphere, visual rhetoric, rhetoric, and imagination
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Brett Richard Ommen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-10-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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