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The Formation Of The Russian Medical Profession: A Comparison Of Power And Plagues In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Samuel Otto Schuth Jan 2014

The Formation Of The Russian Medical Profession: A Comparison Of Power And Plagues In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries, Samuel Otto Schuth

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No abstract provided.


Imagining Saigon: American Interpretations Of Saigon In The Twentieth Century, Evan Cordulack Jan 2013

Imagining Saigon: American Interpretations Of Saigon In The Twentieth Century, Evan Cordulack

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Saigon has occupied an important place in the American imagination. Captivated by its French colonial past, a diverse array of American writers romanticized the city's "tree-lined streets" as the "Paris of the East" and the "Pearl of the Orient." as the United States extended its influence in Vietnam over the course of the twentieth Century, culminating during the 1960s, Saigon experienced America's growing presence. Americans composed photographs and writings, both personal and published, to make sense of the changing city and the changing public opinion of the war. The juxtaposition of American-occupied French colonial architecture with the visual manifestations of …


Fixing What Has Been Broken: The United States' Actions In The Aftermath Of The Looting Of The Iraq National Museum During The 2003 Invasion, Jonathan David Yost Jan 2013

Fixing What Has Been Broken: The United States' Actions In The Aftermath Of The Looting Of The Iraq National Museum During The 2003 Invasion, Jonathan David Yost

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No abstract provided.


Clockmaking Clerics And Ropemaking Lawyers: Mixing Occupational Roles In Early Modern Spain, Aaron Joshua Gregory Jan 2012

Clockmaking Clerics And Ropemaking Lawyers: Mixing Occupational Roles In Early Modern Spain, Aaron Joshua Gregory

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Flying Under The Radar With The Royal Chicano Air Force: The Ongoing Politics Of Space And Ethnic Identity, Ella Maria Diaz Jan 2010

Flying Under The Radar With The Royal Chicano Air Force: The Ongoing Politics Of Space And Ethnic Identity, Ella Maria Diaz

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This dissertation explores the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), a Chicano/a arts collective that produced numerous murals in Sacramento, CA, for over forty years. Grounded in Mexican and US aesthetic traditions, their murals reflect cultural hybridity and re-imagine US history through a Chicano/a perspective. Many of their works were and are located in Sacramento's Chicano/a barrios, while others occupy interethnic, public space in the vicinity of the State Capitol. By encoding hidden Chicano/a iconographies within each mural, the RCAF offers what scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba calls "alter-Native" narratives of American history because they posit "Other" views of local history, …


Next To The Man, And Not Forgotten: Gay Mcdougall And The Southern Africa Project Of The Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, 1963-1994, Myra Ann Houser Jan 2009

Next To The Man, And Not Forgotten: Gay Mcdougall And The Southern Africa Project Of The Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law, 1963-1994, Myra Ann Houser

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No abstract provided.


"Father Wasn't De Onlies' One Hidin' In De Woods": The Many Images Of Maroons Throughout The American South, Angela Alicia Williams Jan 2003

"Father Wasn't De Onlies' One Hidin' In De Woods": The Many Images Of Maroons Throughout The American South, Angela Alicia Williams

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No abstract provided.


Interminority Relations In The Early 1990s In California: Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, And Asian-Americans, Akiko Yamazato Jan 2003

Interminority Relations In The Early 1990s In California: Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, And Asian-Americans, Akiko Yamazato

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No abstract provided.


"Caretakers Of The Color Line": Southern Sheriffs Of The Twentieth Century, Grace Earle Hill Jan 2003

"Caretakers Of The Color Line": Southern Sheriffs Of The Twentieth Century, Grace Earle Hill

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No abstract provided.


National Identity In Turkey, Seth Robertson Wood Jan 1999

National Identity In Turkey, Seth Robertson Wood

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No abstract provided.


In Search Of The Southern Identity: The Lady, The Farmwife, And The Nonslaveholders Of York County Virginia, 1850-1860, Chesley Homan Flotten Jan 1998

In Search Of The Southern Identity: The Lady, The Farmwife, And The Nonslaveholders Of York County Virginia, 1850-1860, Chesley Homan Flotten

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No abstract provided.


Norms Of Military Intervention And The Persian Gulf Conflict: The Social Construction Of Interests And Identities, Robert A. Martin Jan 1995

Norms Of Military Intervention And The Persian Gulf Conflict: The Social Construction Of Interests And Identities, Robert A. Martin

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No abstract provided.


Japan's National Security: Establishing "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere," Through Official Development Assistance, Miho Hasuo Jan 1992

Japan's National Security: Establishing "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere," Through Official Development Assistance, Miho Hasuo

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No abstract provided.


The Prospects For Economic Reform In The Soviet Union: What Can Be Learned From Hungary And China?, Richard Gary Davis Jan 1991

The Prospects For Economic Reform In The Soviet Union: What Can Be Learned From Hungary And China?, Richard Gary Davis

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No abstract provided.


An Isolating And Repressive Force: The Image Of The Southern Lady In The Work Of Lee Smith, Deborah Rae Wesley Jan 1990

An Isolating And Repressive Force: The Image Of The Southern Lady In The Work Of Lee Smith, Deborah Rae Wesley

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No abstract provided.


The Potential For Colonial Period Archaeology In La Libertad, Peru, Ross W. Jamieson Jan 1990

The Potential For Colonial Period Archaeology In La Libertad, Peru, Ross W. Jamieson

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No abstract provided.


Politics And The Writings Of Vassily Aksyonov, William S. Allred Jan 1989

Politics And The Writings Of Vassily Aksyonov, William S. Allred

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Underdevelopment And Violence In Latin America, William Platon Mandros Jan 1988

Underdevelopment And Violence In Latin America, William Platon Mandros

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No abstract provided.


Discord And Unity: Soviet Dissident Thought, Kevin M. Quinley Jan 1977

Discord And Unity: Soviet Dissident Thought, Kevin M. Quinley

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Pious Wives And "Hen-Pecked" Husbands: White Women, Evangelical Religion, And The Honor Ethic In The Old South, Sharon Elizabeth Romeo Jan 1977

Pious Wives And "Hen-Pecked" Husbands: White Women, Evangelical Religion, And The Honor Ethic In The Old South, Sharon Elizabeth Romeo

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Evolution Of The Soviet Bloc, Robert L. Hutchings Jan 1975

The Evolution Of The Soviet Bloc, Robert L. Hutchings

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Post-War Democratization Of Japan: Voting Patterns Of Osaka Prefecture, Hiroyuki Hamada Jan 1974

The Post-War Democratization Of Japan: Voting Patterns Of Osaka Prefecture, Hiroyuki Hamada

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Neutralization And A Proposed Application To Israel, John Alfred Tinkham Jan 1971

Neutralization And A Proposed Application To Israel, John Alfred Tinkham

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No abstract provided.


North Korea And Sino-Soviet Competition, William A. Hazleton Jan 1970

North Korea And Sino-Soviet Competition, William A. Hazleton

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.