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Afro-Barbadian Foodways: Analysis Of The Use Of Ceramics By Freed Afro-Barbadian Estate Workers, Camille Lois Chambers Jan 2015

Afro-Barbadian Foodways: Analysis Of The Use Of Ceramics By Freed Afro-Barbadian Estate Workers, Camille Lois Chambers

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Dress Of The Right Length To Die In": Mortuary And Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers Of The Piedmont South, Zoey Alderman-Tuttle Jan 2012

"A Dress Of The Right Length To Die In": Mortuary And Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers Of The Piedmont South, Zoey Alderman-Tuttle

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Warfighter-Peacekeeper Psychological Aptitude: Assessing The Soldier's Psychological Aptitude For Effective Performance In Combat Or Traditional Peacekeeping Operations, Matthew Charles Densmore Jan 2004

Warfighter-Peacekeeper Psychological Aptitude: Assessing The Soldier's Psychological Aptitude For Effective Performance In Combat Or Traditional Peacekeeping Operations, Matthew Charles Densmore

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Of More Consequence Than The President": Frances Folsom Cleveland And The Role Of First Lady In The Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams Jan 2004

"Of More Consequence Than The President": Frances Folsom Cleveland And The Role Of First Lady In The Late Nineteenth Century, Ellen E. Adams

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert Jan 2001

The Press And The Prisons: Union And Confederate Newspaper Coverage Of Civil War Prisons, Elizabeth C. Bangert

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman Jan 2000

The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Passage To More Than India": American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism In The 1850s, Elizabeth Kelly Gray Jan 1998

"Passage To More Than India": American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism In The 1850s, Elizabeth Kelly Gray

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Designing Carolina: The Construction Of An Early American Social And Geographical Landscape, 1670-1719, Meaghan N. Duff Jan 1998

Designing Carolina: The Construction Of An Early American Social And Geographical Landscape, 1670-1719, Meaghan N. Duff

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study explores the promotion, population and settlement of the Carolina lowcountry and evaluates the colony's pioneer years, the period before an English-dominated plantation society achieved supremacy. Many designers participated in the construction of proprietary South Carolina's social and geographical landscapes. The explorers and propagandists who first characterized the colony for European audiences developed the region in the minds of potential emigrants. their recruitment campaigns determined in part the people who colonized the province. The Lords Proprietors and their agents, who devised an elaborate settlement program set forth in the Fundamental Constitutions and other land policies, influenced how Carolina evolved …


Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells Jan 1997

Reflections Of Social Change: Burial Patterns In Colonial Fairfax County, Virginia, Kimberly Joyce Wells

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Spirit Of The Times: Church, State And Revolution In Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld Jan 1996

The Spirit Of The Times: Church, State And Revolution In Virginia, Kenneth William Rosenfeld

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Use Of Visualization In The Treatment Of Substance Abusing Adolescents, Candice Jane Cook Jan 1996

The Use Of Visualization In The Treatment Of Substance Abusing Adolescents, Candice Jane Cook

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of visualization in the treatment of adolescents who abuse substances. This study measured whether the use of visualization had an impact on levels of depression, acting out behavior and ego development.;The sample consisted of 63 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 who had been referred to a residential group home by the court system. The adolescents were evaluated using the Child Behavior Checklist, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Washington University Sentence Completion Test. The subjects were evaluated at the beginning of the study and again at the …


Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks Jan 1996

Lead Poisoning From The Colonial Period To The Present, Elsie Irene Eubanks

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Selected Medical Students' Perceptions Of Issues Related To Battered Women, Anita Strickland Jan 1995

A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Selected Medical Students' Perceptions Of Issues Related To Battered Women, Anita Strickland

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Handsomely Improved Place" : Economic, Social, And Gender-Role Development In A Backcountry Town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810, Judith A. Ridner Jan 1994

"A Handsomely Improved Place" : Economic, Social, And Gender-Role Development In A Backcountry Town, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750-1810, Judith A. Ridner

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

As a social history of the town and people of Carlisle, Pennsylvania from 1750 to 1810, this dissertation traces the evolution of communal identity in the early American backcountry. By focusing on the growth and development of one urban community, this work details not only how and why one group of backcountry inhabitants took pride in their town's outward accomplishments and material prosperity, but also explains how Carlisle's evolutionary growth prompted the town's people to see themselves as key players in an economic and social universe that stretched far beyond the geographic boundaries of their localized realm.;Using state and county …


Territorial Madness: Spain, Geopolitics, And The American Revolution, Michael J. Devine Jan 1994

Territorial Madness: Spain, Geopolitics, And The American Revolution, Michael J. Devine

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Oz In The Valley Of Ashes: Visions Of Tomorrow At The New York World's Fairs Of 1939 And 1964, Emily Mieras Jan 1993

Oz In The Valley Of Ashes: Visions Of Tomorrow At The New York World's Fairs Of 1939 And 1964, Emily Mieras

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Town Development In The Colonial Backcountry: Virginia And North Carolina, Christopher E. Hendricks Jan 1991

Town Development In The Colonial Backcountry: Virginia And North Carolina, Christopher E. Hendricks

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The backcountry of colonial Virginia and North Carolina saw a process of urbanization during the third quarter of the eighteenth century uniquely shaped by a large-scale migration from colonies to the north, aided by the westward extension of local government. This rapid development did not lead to the creation of a hierarchical economic system of central places, but rather linear networks shaped by the geography of the region. Ironically, this phenomenon occurred in an area of two American colonies usually considered to be devoid of towns.;This dissertation is a study of twenty-eight towns established from 1744 to 1776 in the …


Police Reform And The Boston Police Strike Of 1919, David Joseph Roberts Jan 1990

Police Reform And The Boston Police Strike Of 1919, David Joseph Roberts

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Classical And Modern Conservatism: The Political Thought Of Edmund Burke And Michale Oakeshott, David Robert Michael Melding Jan 1989

A Study Of Classical And Modern Conservatism: The Political Thought Of Edmund Burke And Michale Oakeshott, David Robert Michael Melding

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Tanner And Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity, William James Sheppard Jan 1989

The Tanner And Boundary Maintenance: Determining Ethnic Identity, William James Sheppard

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Be Ye Friend Or Foe?: An Analysis Of Two Eighteenth Century North Carolina Sites, Anna Lois Gray Jan 1989

Be Ye Friend Or Foe?: An Analysis Of Two Eighteenth Century North Carolina Sites, Anna Lois Gray

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks Jan 1987

The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Nobody's Children: The Treatment Of Illegitimate Children In Three North Carolina Counties, 1760-1790, Lynne Howard Frazer Jan 1987

Nobody's Children: The Treatment Of Illegitimate Children In Three North Carolina Counties, 1760-1790, Lynne Howard Frazer

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


St Eustatius: Acculturation In A Dutch Caribbean Colony, Patricia Lynn Kandle Jan 1985

St Eustatius: Acculturation In A Dutch Caribbean Colony, Patricia Lynn Kandle

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Development Of Building Patterns In Tidewater Virginia, 1620--1670, Martha Irene Pallante Jan 1982

The Development Of Building Patterns In Tidewater Virginia, 1620--1670, Martha Irene Pallante

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Political Protestants And The Conservative Sect, Richard B. Kelley Jan 1981

Political Protestants And The Conservative Sect, Richard B. Kelley

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Weather Underground: A Study In Mobilization, Paul Michael Pigulski Jan 1981

The Weather Underground: A Study In Mobilization, Paul Michael Pigulski

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Xyz Affair And The Congressional Election Of 1799 In Richmond, Virginia, Nancy M. Merz Jan 1973

The Xyz Affair And The Congressional Election Of 1799 In Richmond, Virginia, Nancy M. Merz

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Calender Of The Preston Family Papers, Joyes Collection, James Robert Bentley Jan 1972

Calender Of The Preston Family Papers, Joyes Collection, James Robert Bentley

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.