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International Trade And Investment In Eastern Europe And The Soviet Union, Yassaman Saadatmand

Doctoral Dissertations

How should one analyze the economic relations between advanced capitalist systems and other economic systems? So far the economists have mainly concentrated their efforts on studying the relations between developed capitalist countries (henceforth DCs) and the less developed countries (henceforth LDCs) of the world. There has not, however, been a significant effort in devising a systematic theory of economic relations between DCs and the socialist countries. I intend for my dissertation to be a contribution in that direction. It is concerned with investigating the role of international trade and investment in the countries of Eastern Europe.

In the process of …

Belknap Of New Hampshire: Human Experience In Early America, Russell M. Lawson

Doctoral Dissertations

This study is a personal analysis of the eighteenth-century historian-scientist-minister, Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798). Belknap's life is used to illustrate a type of history denoted "humanist" history. The goal of humanism is to uncover general truths from specific experiences. Thus, emphasis is placed upon Belknap's life-experiences and feelings rather than his place in the culture of eighteenth-century New England. The author seeks to stimulate readers to empathy, and thus reflection. Ideally, readers will discover that a past human felt the same feelings they have felt, of love, fear, uncertainty, and hope; in seeking to understand Belknap's feelings readers will, it is …

Town And Province In Revolutionary New Hampshire: A Stable Political Culture Confronts Change, 1765--1776, Marilyn Mulzer Robbert

Doctoral Dissertations

The study analyzes the relationship of the towns to the provincial government between 1765 and 1776 to understand the underlying process of the coming of the Revolution in New Hampshire. The focus is on the towns, and the main sources are unpublished town records.

For one part of the study, I developed a system to identify legislative leaders (a modification of Jack Greene's method), used Gini scores to compare the General Assemblies with the Provincial Congresses and the 1776 House of Representatives, and constructed a composite biography for the 296 men who served during the period.

A comparison of the …

Seventeenth-Century New England And New France In Comparative Perspective: Notre Dame Des Anges---A Case Study, Mary Ann La Fleur

Doctoral Dissertations

This work is a comparison of New England and New France in northeast North America in the seventeenth century. The study of New England relies on secondary works while the study of New France uses primary material. The seigneurie of Notre Dame des Anges, located north of Quebec City, was used as the basis of this study. The questions asked in this study are: Was culture or the environment the most significant factor in the establishing of colonies in the New World? Who were the people who came from England and France? What was the character of those who stayed …

The Ronson Ship: The Study Of An Eighteenth-Century Merchantman Excavated In Manhattan, New York In 1982, Warren Curtis Riess

Doctoral Dissertations

During a pre-construction archaeological investigation at 175 Water Street, Manhattan, New York in 1982, excavators discovered an eighteenth-century merchant ship. The port side of the ship was excavated and recorded and the bow was taken apart and saved. Since that time historical and archaeological studies have been conducted to interpret the site to glean information about eighteenth-century technology and economics. The remains of this ship are particularly important because no draft or other remains of early eighteenth-century transatlantic merchantmen have been discovered.

The ship appears to be a Virginia-built ship which sailed between the Chesapeake and England or Scotland carrying …

The Serpentine Wall: Judicial Decision-Making In Supreme Court Cases Involving Aid To Sectarian Schools, Christine Linton Compston

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation uses the cases involving aid to sectarian schools, decided between 1945 and 1985, as a vehicle for examining decision making by the Supreme Court justices. The discussion of Everson v. Board of Education (1947) relies heavily on the private papers of individual justices, autobiographies, and biographies to determine the importance of personal religious beliefs, the history of the First Amendment, political and judicial philosophies, as well as the efforts of specific individuals to persuade others to their positions. Board of Education v. Allen (1968) is analyzed within the context of the political environment, taking into consideration the government's …

The Evangelical New Light Clergy Of Northern New England, 1741-1755: A Typology (Great Awakening, Maine, New Hampshire, Revival), Laura Broderick Ricard

Doctoral Dissertations

Based on the prosopographical analysis of twenty-five Maine and New Hampshire clergymen, this dissertation corrects the prevailing treatment of New Lights, who emerged during the Great Awakening, as if they were of a monolithic "mind." It counters the oversimplified labeling of mid eighteenth-century evangelicals with a typology that establishes subtle gradations of New Light piety according to appreciable differences in theology and religious practice. It examines the mysticism of the most extreme New Lights, and suggests that the strong pneumatic impulse that manifested itself in their violent yearnings for an emotionally satisfying relationship with God was a thread that continued …

From Strawbery Banke To Puddle Dock: The Evolution Of A Neighborhood, 1630-1850 (Urban Community, Maritime; New Hampshire), John Walter Durel

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the evolution of a site from 1630 to 1850. Until 1690 the site was part of a large farmstead; during the eighteenth century it became a thriving commercial area in the seaport town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire; after 1820 it became an old waterfront neighborhood serving primarily as a residential area. The study first places the site within the context of the larger community, and then looks at spatial arrangements and structural forms within the site itself. Finally it follows the changing reputation of the area.

The local economy was the strongest influence on the way people …

The Scotch-Irish Of Provincial New Hampshire, Ralph Stuart Wallace

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the Scotch-Irish as a distinct ethnic group in eighteenth-century New Hampshire. The Scotch-Irish are seen in light of their ethnicity as well as the role they played in the growth and development of provincial New Hampshire.

When the first "wave" of Presbyterians from Ulster came to New England in 1718, they were confused with native, Catholic Irish. Boston rejected them, and they were sent to frontier areas in Maine and central Massachusetts, where they suffered at the hands of land speculators, unsympathetic neighbors, and hostile Indians.

In New Hampshire, a substantial number of New England's Scotch-Irish immigrants …

Amos Kendall: A Political Biography (Jackson; Kentucky; Banking), Terry L. Shoptaugh

Doctoral Dissertations

This study is a political biography of Amos Kendall (1789-1869), a newspaper editor who became one of the principal advisers to President Andrew Jackson. The study is based on primary sources and documents, as well as the standard secondary literature on the Jacksonian period of American history.

Kendall's career in politics is examined in its entirety, including his activities in Kentucky, his tenure as Postmaster General, and his contributions to the development of the Democratic Party. Emphasis has been placed on Kendall's commitment to republican theories of popular government, particularly as he implemented these theories during the struggle between the …

Revolutionary New Hampshire And The Loyalist Experience: "Surely We Have Deserved A Better Fate", Robert Munro Brown

Doctoral Dissertations

Before the Revolution New Hampshire had one of the strongest, pro-British governing elites of the colonies. After 1775 however, the Loyalist faction in the state was one of the weakest and least effective. This dissertation seeks to examine the uniqueness of this experience by studying the general situation, the lives of many of the province's Loyalists, and by classifying the Loyalists through their connections with Great Britain.

Governor Benning Wentworth tightly controlled the colony through a network of family and business associations which came to dominate the politics and the economy of the province. However, when his nephew John Wentworth …

The Layered Society: Material Life In Portsmouth, Nh, 1680 To 1740 (New Hampshire), Karen Elizabeth Andresen

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation evaluates the material life and economic culture of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1680 to 1740 through an analysis of the probate inventories of the estates of 234 males. It also details the methodology used to determine the twin biases of probate records--that people whose estates were probated were generally older and wealthier than people in the overall population.

The inequality of wealth was fairly static. Using model life tables, a commodity price series derived from Portsmouth goods, and weights to account for differences between the ages and economic status' of the probated and total populations, the Gini Index …

The German Soldiers In The American Revolution (Volumes I And Ii, Chapters 1-12), Elliott Wheelock Hoffman

Doctoral Dissertations

The thirty thousand German soldiers who served with the British Army in the American Revolution enabled the British to attempt to successfully wage war without affecting the stability of British society. The six German states that sent troops to America did so as a result of hundreds of years of normal troop trade. Few Britons questioned the legality of the hiring of foreign troops. Britain could not fight the war without such troops and even the critics of the war acknowledged this truth. The Germans often made up half the forces facing Americans on the battlefield.

This dissertation analyses the …

Criminal Cases At The Essex County, Massachusetts, Court Of General Sessions, 1700 - 1785, Paul Donald Marsella

Doctoral Dissertations

This study provides detailed description of criminal cases at the Essex County, Massachusetts Court of General Sessions of the Peace from 1700 to 1785 and analyzes the relationship between crime and social tension in Massachusetts during this period. The Court of General Sessions was the county administrative and criminal court in eighteenth century Massachusetts and its records are extensive. Essex County, moreover, was a socially and economically diverse community, and it is an appropriate representative sample of eighteenth century Massachusetts society.

Sessions Court records yield a tremendous amount of detailed information about criminal activity in eighteenth century Essex County. The …

Order And Disorder In Early Connecticut: New Haven, 1639-1701, Robert West Roetger

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation assesses order and disorder in New Haven, Connecticut from its founding in 1639 to the introduction of Justices of the Peace in 1701. It juxtaposes concepts of the well-ordered society as expressed in puritan rhetoric with the reality of behavior as reflected in legal documents to illustrate the pre-eminent role assumed by law in ordering society. What emerges is a picture of society not rigidly caught up in the policies of perfection, but one characterized by responsive lawmaking, equally flexible enforcement, and reliance upon formal legal institutions to resolve private controversies.

The study begins with a portrait of …

The Education Of An Artist: The American Years Of John Singleton Copley, 1738-1774, Richard Klayman

Doctoral Dissertations

The American years of John Singleton Copley have been all but ignored by earlier biographers. Rather, Copley's paintings have received the bulk of historical and critical attention. This study examines the artist's life and work within the context of his Colonial education. Education remains central in understanding Copley's American career.

In particular, Copley's education is explored in terms of his family life, boyhood years, and the educational environment of his household. Examination of Boston's public education system and its private schoolmasters suggests additional information contributing to his education.

Copley's education was furthered through his relationship with his step-father, Peter Pelham. …

"Without Understanding": The Fbi And Political Surveillance, 1908-1941, David Joseph Williams

Doctoral Dissertations

By 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, created in 1908 as the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, had become a vast, influential and semi-independent bureaucracy. Under the close scrutiny of Director J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI publicly promoted its criminal investigation capabilities and highlighted dramatic episodes such as the Dillinger case. At the same time, however, the FBI unilaterally created a covert code of political crimes and conducted numerous illegal investigations of both prominent and ordinary Americans.

This dissertation focuses on the development of FBI political surveillance between 1908 and 1941. Dicussions of FBI enforcement of the criminal law will …

Ministers, Metaphors, And The New England Wilderness, 1650-1700, John Vasmar Dalton

Doctoral Dissertations

This study focuses upon ministerial perceptions of the New England wilderness, as seen in sermons preached between 1650-1700. The "wilderness" is understood both in its metaphorical and Biblical sense. This metaphorical and Biblical meaning of the "wilderness" involved three distinct but overlapping meanings.

From 1650-1674, New England's ministers perceived the American landscape as a place of promise for, with proper worship and the lessening of evil, it was the place of God's role. The second meaning of the wilderness emerged during King Philip's War (1615-1677) when New England learned to be the land of promise. During the years it was …

Diary Of The Damned: A Study In Theocentric Anxiety In Pre-Awakening New England, Raymond Bernard Wilbur

Doctoral Dissertations

The diary of Joseph Moody, the subject of this dissertation, hidden behind a coded Latin text for 240 years, reveals the intensity with which some New England Puritans pursued the preparationist-predestinarian discipline propounded by Thomas Shepard and others among New England's founding fathers. Such was the "preacher's gift" of Samuel Moody to his son Joseph, in the preparationist tradition of Shepard, that the son became convinced that God had passed him by and that he was irretrievably lost and damned forever. The diary is young Moody's record of his futile quest for signs of his election and salvation.

Deeply troubled …

Markets And Merchants: Economic Diversification In Colonial Virginia, 1700-1775, Peter Victor Bergstrom

Doctoral Dissertations

While the literature detailing the intricacies of the colonial tobacco trade is extensive, and often quite persuasive, its conclusion that Virginia's economy began and ended in the production of tobacco is misleading. Virginia's expansion into previously unsettled lands, and the tremendous increase in the size of its labor force during the first three quarters of the eighteenth century did produce a gigantic growth in the tobacco trade, but it had other effects as well. Grain and meat products along with naval stores and iron contributed little to the colony's economic output in 1701, yet by 1774 they accounted for better …

Good Wives: A Study In Role Definition In Northern New England, 1650-1750, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation describes the productive, sexual, and public roles of married women living in the province of New Hampshire and the two Massachusetts counties which bordered it, Essex County to the south and York County (now Maine) to the north and east. Because there are no female diaries for the period and few letters, the study depends upon an accumulation of evidence from court records, account books, probate inventories, church records, paintings, embroideries, gravestones, genealogical records, captivity narratives, sermons, and the letters and diaries of husbands and sons.

The discussion is organized around three Biblical archetypes frequently employed in early …

Power, Oppression, And Liberation: New Hampshire Abolitionism And The Radical Critique Of Slavery, 1825-1850, Stephen Lawrence Cox

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the abolitionist movement in New Hampshire. The study, consisting of two parts, is divided at 1837 when rival factions of Granite State abolitionists sought control of the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society (NHASS). Although the nature and structure of the movement had been altered after 1840, abolitionists in both the 1830's and 1840's were clearly bound by the concepts of power and oppression which served as the organizing principles for their attack on a slaveholding nation.

The New Hampshire Colonization Society provided the foundation for the abolitionist movement in the state. Although the society endorsed black removal, colonizationists …

Brokers Of The Word: An Essay In The Social History Of The Early American Press, 1639-1783, Charles Wheeler Wetherell

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation explores the social context of printing and publishing from 1639 to 1783 through an analysis of the complete extant record of colonial printing and a collective biography of the printers, publishers and booksellers who comprised the press. Two general areas are explored. The first involves the size, stability, and growth of the press, the second, the structure of the trade at large.

The early American press grew like the population it served and was characterized by a marked stability. The broad patterns of production and growth suggest that how much was printed depended largely upon the number of …

The Transplantation And Transformation Of The English Shire In America: Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1768, Harold Arthur Pinkham Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

This study of Essex County, Massachusetts, emanates from a dissatisfaction with the disjointed and segmented histories available for the counties of colonial Massachusetts. Because little effort has been made to examine towns systematically, to place localities within the context of the larger.

Protagonist Of Prudence: A Biography Of John Wentworth, The King's Last Governor Of New Hampshire, Paul Wendell Wilderson Iii.

Doctoral Dissertations

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Habitants In Holyoke: The Development Of The French-Canadian Community In A Massachusetts City, 1865-1910, Peter Haebler

Doctoral Dissertations

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Turmoil In A City And An Empire; Bristol's Factions, 1700-1775, Ronald H. Quilici

Doctoral Dissertations

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A Cruel Wind: America Experiences Pandemic Influenza, 1918-1920 A Social History, Dorothy Ann Pettit

Doctoral Dissertations

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The Means To Grace: A Study Of Conversion In Early New England, George Joseph Selement

Doctoral Dissertations

No abstract provided.