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2011

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Storyville: Discourses In Southern Musicians' Autobiographies, Matthew Daniel Sutton Jan 2011

Storyville: Discourses In Southern Musicians' Autobiographies, Matthew Daniel Sutton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study utilizes many of the tools of the literary critic to identify and analyze the discursive conventions in autobiographies by American vernacular musicians who came of age in the American South during the era of enforced racial segregation. Through this textual analysis, we can appreciate this seemingly amorphous collection of books as a continuing conversation, where descriptions of the South and its music by turns confirm, contradict, and complicate each other. Ultimately, the dozens of southern musician autobiographies published in the last fifty years engage in a valuable and revealing dialogue, creating a virtual "Storyville"; ostensibly disparate works share …


An Interpretive Plan For The Newry, South Carolina Cotton Mill Museum, Callie Pettit Hawkins Jan 2011

An Interpretive Plan For The Newry, South Carolina Cotton Mill Museum, Callie Pettit Hawkins

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No abstract provided.


A New England State Of Mind: Identity And Commodification In "Yankee" Magazine, 1935-1942, Andrew Robert Sargent Jan 2011

A New England State Of Mind: Identity And Commodification In "Yankee" Magazine, 1935-1942, Andrew Robert Sargent

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No abstract provided.


Shahrazad In The White City: Muslim Women's Agency Through Performance At The Columbian Exposition, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood Jerome Jan 2011

Shahrazad In The White City: Muslim Women's Agency Through Performance At The Columbian Exposition, Alexandra Me'av Anne Ellinwood Jerome

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No abstract provided.


Strategic Victimization: News Photographs, The Birmingham Children's Crusade, And The Revisualization Of America, Margaret Keeton Williams Jan 2011

Strategic Victimization: News Photographs, The Birmingham Children's Crusade, And The Revisualization Of America, Margaret Keeton Williams

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No abstract provided.


Fine Art And Clandestine Identity: American Indian Artists In The Contemporary Art Market, Jaclyn Kuizon Jan 2011

Fine Art And Clandestine Identity: American Indian Artists In The Contemporary Art Market, Jaclyn Kuizon

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No abstract provided.


Shellfishing, Ceramics, And Gender: Shell Midden Ceramics From The Kiskiak Site, Jessica Marie Herlich Jan 2011

Shellfishing, Ceramics, And Gender: Shell Midden Ceramics From The Kiskiak Site, Jessica Marie Herlich

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No abstract provided.


Ghosts On The Coast Of Paradise: Identifying And Interpreting The Ephemeral Remains Of Bermuda's 18th Century Shipyards, Joel Garrett Dworsky Jan 2011

Ghosts On The Coast Of Paradise: Identifying And Interpreting The Ephemeral Remains Of Bermuda's 18th Century Shipyards, Joel Garrett Dworsky

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No abstract provided.


Particular And Purposeful Visions: How The Richmond School Of Social Work Engaged The Nation And World From 1917 To 1939, Kelly Finefrock-Creed Jan 2011

Particular And Purposeful Visions: How The Richmond School Of Social Work Engaged The Nation And World From 1917 To 1939, Kelly Finefrock-Creed

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No abstract provided.


For Their Maintenance And Education: An Analysis Of Children Entering Christ's Hospital, London, 1763-1803, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Gardy Jan 2011

For Their Maintenance And Education: An Analysis Of Children Entering Christ's Hospital, London, 1763-1803, Kaitlyn Elizabeth Gardy

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No abstract provided.


Determining Reliability In Indian Captivity Narratives, Heather Nicole Diangelis Jan 2011

Determining Reliability In Indian Captivity Narratives, Heather Nicole Diangelis

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No abstract provided.


The Wondrous Chain Of Providence: Thomas Prince, The Puritan Past, And New England's Future, 1660-1736, Thomas Joseph Gillan Jan 2011

The Wondrous Chain Of Providence: Thomas Prince, The Puritan Past, And New England's Future, 1660-1736, Thomas Joseph Gillan

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No abstract provided.


The "Extraordinary" Case Of James Allen: A Study Of Gender And Sexuality In Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Maria Dale Booth Jan 2011

The "Extraordinary" Case Of James Allen: A Study Of Gender And Sexuality In Early Nineteenth-Century Britain, Maria Dale Booth

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No abstract provided.


Eavesdropping On History: Olmstead V U.S And The Emergence Of Privacy Jurisprudence During Prohibition, Anna Leslie Krouse Jan 2011

Eavesdropping On History: Olmstead V U.S And The Emergence Of Privacy Jurisprudence During Prohibition, Anna Leslie Krouse

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No abstract provided.


Mobutu And Nyerere, 1960-1979: Trajectories And Creativity In Re-Imagining The Nation, Jonathan Edwards Shaw Jan 2011

Mobutu And Nyerere, 1960-1979: Trajectories And Creativity In Re-Imagining The Nation, Jonathan Edwards Shaw

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No abstract provided.


On The Backs Of Horses: The Great Epizootic Of 1872, Jeffrey Michael Flanagan Jan 2011

On The Backs Of Horses: The Great Epizootic Of 1872, Jeffrey Michael Flanagan

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No abstract provided.


The Political Imaginings Of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts Of The 1710 Slave Conspiracy In Martinique, Jeffrey Scott Thomas Jan 2011

The Political Imaginings Of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts Of The 1710 Slave Conspiracy In Martinique, Jeffrey Scott Thomas

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No abstract provided.


Bondage On The Border: Slaves And Slaveholders In Tazewell County, Virginia, Laura Lee Kerr Jan 2011

Bondage On The Border: Slaves And Slaveholders In Tazewell County, Virginia, Laura Lee Kerr

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No abstract provided.


Ghent Gayland: A Case Study Of The Gay And Lesbian Community And Media Of Norfolk, Virginia, Michael Anthony Lusby Jan 2011

Ghent Gayland: A Case Study Of The Gay And Lesbian Community And Media Of Norfolk, Virginia, Michael Anthony Lusby

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No abstract provided.


Comparing Terrors: State Terrorism In Revolutionary France And Russia, Anne Cabriã© Forsythe Jan 2011

Comparing Terrors: State Terrorism In Revolutionary France And Russia, Anne Cabriã© Forsythe

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No abstract provided.


C.C Spaulding & R.R Wright---Companions On The Road Less Traveled?: A Reconsideration Of African American International Relations In The Early Twentieth Century, Brandon R. Byrd Jan 2011

C.C Spaulding & R.R Wright---Companions On The Road Less Traveled?: A Reconsideration Of African American International Relations In The Early Twentieth Century, Brandon R. Byrd

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No abstract provided.


Liberty, Bondage, And The Pursuit Of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law And Self-Enslavement In Virginia, 1806--1864, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf Jan 2011

Liberty, Bondage, And The Pursuit Of Happiness: The Free Black Expulsion Law And Self-Enslavement In Virginia, 1806--1864, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf

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This dissertation seeks to explain why more than 110 African American individuals proposed to enslave themselves (and, in some cases, their children as well) in Virginia from 1854 to 1864. I examine the act of the Virginia legislature in 1856 "providing for the voluntary enslavement of the free negroes of the commonwealth" and suggest that this law provided some free Afro-Virginian individuals with an alternative to removal from the state and separation from their families (as called for by the sporadically enforced 1806 expulsion law, passed in part to discourage manumissions). I argue that if receiving legal freedom threatened a …


Dietary Bioarchaeology: Late Woodland Subsistence Within The Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Berek J. Dore Jan 2011

Dietary Bioarchaeology: Late Woodland Subsistence Within The Coastal Plain Of Virginia, Berek J. Dore

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No abstract provided.


Unsung Heroes: Lesbian Activists In The Aids Epidemic In North Carolina And California, 1981-1989, Maggie Shackelford Jan 2011

Unsung Heroes: Lesbian Activists In The Aids Epidemic In North Carolina And California, 1981-1989, Maggie Shackelford

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No abstract provided.


"I Would Cut My Bones For Him": Concepts Of Loyalty, Social Change, And Culture In The Scottish Highlands, From The Clans To The American Revolution, Alana Speth Jan 2011

"I Would Cut My Bones For Him": Concepts Of Loyalty, Social Change, And Culture In The Scottish Highlands, From The Clans To The American Revolution, Alana Speth

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No abstract provided.


The North American Peltry Exchange: A Comparative Look At The Fur Trade In Colonial Virginia And New Netherland, Laura Ann Norbut Jan 2011

The North American Peltry Exchange: A Comparative Look At The Fur Trade In Colonial Virginia And New Netherland, Laura Ann Norbut

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No abstract provided.


The Colonial History Of Wye Plantation, The Lloyd Family, And Their Slaves On Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, And Power, Amy Speckart Jan 2011

The Colonial History Of Wye Plantation, The Lloyd Family, And Their Slaves On Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, And Power, Amy Speckart

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The history of the Lloyd family at Wye Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, from the 1650s to the early 1770s refines and complicates the dominant historical narrative of the rise of a native-born Protestant planter elite in colonial Chesapeake scholarship. First, the Lloyds were a wealthy and politically prominent Protestant family that benefited from close ties to Catholics up to the end of the colonial period. Second, in contrast to traditional histories of the colonial Chesapeake that emphasize the raising and marketing of tobacco, Wye Plantation's history attests to the importance of grain and livestock farming on a commercial scale, …


Jealous Neighbors: Rivalry And Alliance Among The Native Communities Of Detroit, 1701--1766, Andrew Keith Sturtevant Jan 2011

Jealous Neighbors: Rivalry And Alliance Among The Native Communities Of Detroit, 1701--1766, Andrew Keith Sturtevant

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Between the founding of the French post of Detroit in 1701 and the end of Pontiac's War in 1766, several native American peoples settled in distinct clusters around the French (and later British post) near current-day Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. Focusing on the interactions among these communities, this dissertation makes two interrelated arguments. It first argues that, although these peoples had been challenged and changed by the forces of colonialism during the seventeenth century, they nonetheless emerged from that century as discrete ethnic, social, and political entities, rather than shattered or disintegrated refugees. A set of interconnected, mutually constituting, …


Towns In Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, And Empire In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite Jan 2011

Towns In Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, And Empire In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite

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This dissertation charts the contested political and cultural meaning of urbanization in the emerging plantation societies of Virginia and Maryland. Scholars have long asserted that Chesapeake planters' desire for lucre led them to patent huge tracts of land, disperse across the landscape, and completely dismiss urban development. However, through 17 pieces of legislation, colonists, governors, and London administrators actually encouraged towns in the Chesapeake through the seventeenth century. Despite the environmental and agricultural constraints of tidewater tobacco, both colonies wrestled with a perceived need for towns, which consistently appeared to represent the best means to engineer the region's political economy …


Pacific Trade Winds: Towards A Global History Of The Manila Galleon, Matthew F. Thomas Jan 2011

Pacific Trade Winds: Towards A Global History Of The Manila Galleon, Matthew F. Thomas

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.