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Almagro & Claude [Supplemental Material], Wendy Fall Jun 2014

Almagro & Claude [Supplemental Material], Wendy Fall

Gothic Archive Supplemental Materials for Chapbooks

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Old Colonies And New Colors: Despite Obstacles, New Jesuit Colleges Are Born In The United States, Gerald L. Mckevitt S.J. Apr 2014

Old Colonies And New Colors: Despite Obstacles, New Jesuit Colleges Are Born In The United States, Gerald L. Mckevitt S.J.

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

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Illuminating The Irish Free State: Nationalism, National Identity, And The Promotion Of The Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme, Mckayla Kay Sutton Apr 2014

Illuminating The Irish Free State: Nationalism, National Identity, And The Promotion Of The Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme, Mckayla Kay Sutton

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation focuses on the ways in which the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme influenced perceptions of Irishness in the fraught context of postcolonial nation building. The Irish Free State, established by a treaty with Great Britain in 1921, faced the difficult task of maintaining order and establishing stable institutions for the new state. One of the government's most audacious efforts to achieve these objectives was to construct the largest hydroelectric dam in the world on the River Shannon in 1925 with the help of German contractors from Siemens-Schuckert. The first half of the dissertation deals with several ideological issues brought to …


Missing Octavia: A Review Of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, And Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan Mar 2014

Missing Octavia: A Review Of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, And Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Historical Accountability And The Virtue Of Civic Integrity, Margaret Urban Walker Jan 2014

Historical Accountability And The Virtue Of Civic Integrity, Margaret Urban Walker

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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Disciplined Play: American Children's Poetry To 1920, Angela Sorby Jan 2014

Disciplined Play: American Children's Poetry To 1920, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

Children's poetry is barely studied and barely taught, except as an instrumental teaching tool in colleges of education. American children's poetry, like American literature more generally, took on distinctive characteristics after about 1820, as more work was written and published by Americans. The practice of addressing adults and children together in volumes of poetry spanned the whole nineteenth century, although it was slightly more common during the antebellum period. Most scholarly work on the child like qualities of women authors stresses that, although the voice seems innocent, it is really an adult voice making an adult point. The few poems …