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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.


"Justice Is A Perpetual Struggle": The Public Memory Of The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis., Erin Krutko Devlin Jan 2011

"Justice Is A Perpetual Struggle": The Public Memory Of The Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis., Erin Krutko Devlin

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


To Seek The Good, The True, And Beautiful: White, Greek-Letter Sororities In The U.S. South And The Shaping Of American 'Ladyhood,' 1915--1975, Margaret Lynn Freeman Jan 2011

To Seek The Good, The True, And Beautiful: White, Greek-Letter Sororities In The U.S. South And The Shaping Of American 'Ladyhood,' 1915--1975, Margaret Lynn Freeman

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation examines the role of white, Greek-letter sororities in the creation and enforcement of standards for white women's behavior during the twentieth century. While sororities at white, southern universities first served as supportive networks for the few female students on newly coeducational university campuses, I argue that they transformed into spaces that promoted "heterosocial" activities and enforced members' heteronormativity through "lessons of 'ladyhood" and required attendance at fraternity parties and participation in heterosexual dating. as a means to guarantee their popularity among students on their respective campuses, sorority chapters sought the attention of the campuses' fraternity elite. This national …


Black Masculinities As Marronage: Claude Mckay's Representation Of Black Male Subjectivities In Metropolitan Spaces, Jarrett Hugh Brown Jan 2011

Black Masculinities As Marronage: Claude Mckay's Representation Of Black Male Subjectivities In Metropolitan Spaces, Jarrett Hugh Brown

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation explores the representation of black masculinities in Claude McKay's novels, Home to Harlem (1928), Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933). I use the trope of marronage to theorize McKay's representations of black male subjectivities across a range of African diasporan spaces in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe, arguing that McKay's male characters negotiate these diasporan spaces with the complex consciousness and proclivities of maroons. I then examine the ways in which careful attention to the migration and settlement in various diasporan spaces of McKay's black male characters exposes some critical manifestations that profoundly alter how we think …


Arzunun Nesnesi Olmak: Romans, Kmlgan Erkeklik Ve Neoliberal Ozne, Gul Ozyegin Jan 2011

Arzunun Nesnesi Olmak: Romans, Kmlgan Erkeklik Ve Neoliberal Ozne, Gul Ozyegin

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

Neoliberallesmeye bagli olarak Turkiye'de mahremiyetin donusumunu farkli ornekler uzerinden inceleyen makaleleri biraraya getiren seckide, saglik alanindaki metalasma, calisma kosullari ve saglik iliskileri, yeni ureme teknolojileri, yeni hastaliklar ve yeni hasta orgutlenmeleri, kanser ve hastalik anlatilari, menopozun sosyal algilanisi, neoliberalizm kosullarinda erkekligin donusumu, reklamlarda ve populer kulturde cinselligin ve escinselligin kurgulanisi, kadina yonelik siddet ve siginma evleri inceleniyor. Her biri ozgul bir durumdan hareket etmelerine ragmen bu makaleler sayesinde, hizla degisen maddi surecler karsisinda, bedenle, ozel alanla ilgili anlayis ve kavrayisimizda da koklu degisiklikler ortaya ciktigini saptayabiliyoruz.Goruluyor ki neoliberal mantik siklikla varsayildigi gibi bir ozgurlesmeye yol acmiyor: Daha ziyade herseyi metalasmaya …


Authority And Consent: Politics, Power, And Plunder In Charleston, South Carolina, 1700-1745, Kristen Ann Woytonik Jan 2011

Authority And Consent: Politics, Power, And Plunder In Charleston, South Carolina, 1700-1745, Kristen Ann Woytonik

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


False Gods: Authority And Picasso’S Early Work, Charles J. Palermo Jan 2011

False Gods: Authority And Picasso’S Early Work, Charles J. Palermo

Arts & Sciences Articles

In his Literary Interest: The Limits of Anti-Formalism, Steven Knapp discusses some revisionist biblical criticism. This materialist criticism uses social history to recover contexts for biblical history, and does so specifically for the purpose of casting doubt on canonical biblical texts. The substance of the accounts is not my interest here, nor are the aims of their revisions. What I am concerned to trace is a problem Knapp finds in them generally. The problem is: if you question the sacred texts in light of historical circumstances, why do they still matter to you? “The answer,” as Knapp puts it...


Passing The Remote: Community And Television Viewing In Woobinda And La Guerra Degli Antò, Monica Seger Jan 2011

Passing The Remote: Community And Television Viewing In Woobinda And La Guerra Degli Antò, Monica Seger

Arts & Sciences Articles

This paper explores television-modeled narratives in Silvia Ballestra’s La guerra degli Antò, of 1992, and Aldo Nove’s Woobinda, of 1996. In so doing, it considers both the role of a text's author and the majority/minority reception practices that lead to its social imprint. For a definition of reception practices it turns to the work of media and reception scholars such as Henry Jenkins and Ien Ang. Employing a soap-operatic narrative and respecting the viewing practices of a minority viewer group, Ballestra navigates contemporary TV language to shape receptive communities within, and outside, of her text. Nove, in turn, models his …


Catinka Heinefetter. A Jewish Prima Donna In Nineteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter Jan 2011

Catinka Heinefetter. A Jewish Prima Donna In Nineteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


Building And Planting: The Material World, Memory, And The Making Of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681--1726, Catharine Christie Dann Roeber Jan 2011

Building And Planting: The Material World, Memory, And The Making Of William Penn's Pennsylvania, 1681--1726, Catharine Christie Dann Roeber

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The process of creating the colony of Pennsylvania began with the granting of a charter by King Charles II to William Penn in 1681. However the formation of Pennsylvania was not limited to the words of this or other official documents. Many people formed the province through both everyday actions and extraordinary events. and importantly, people involved in the Pennsyvlania project employed both material "toolkits" and language about the material world to stake a place for the new territory within the Americas, Britain, and the world in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.;This dissertation examines how William Penn and his contemporaries …


"What's A Nice Mormon Girl Like You Doing Writing About Vampires?": Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" Saga And The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Karen Elizabeth Smyth Jan 2011

"What's A Nice Mormon Girl Like You Doing Writing About Vampires?": Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" Saga And The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Karen Elizabeth Smyth

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Steadfast In Their Ways: New England Colonists, Indian Wars, And The Persistence Of Culture, 1675-1715, David Michael Corlett Jan 2011

Steadfast In Their Ways: New England Colonists, Indian Wars, And The Persistence Of Culture, 1675-1715, David Michael Corlett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The Indian wars of early New England were traumatic events. During King Philip's, King William's, and Queen Anne's Wars (1675 to 1715) dozens of towns sustained attacks, and English communities and their inhabitants were buffeted and challenged by the experience. The scholarship on colonial warfare and New England as a whole has focused on change and development that occurred as a result of these wars. War places great stress on individuals and societies, forcing them to act in new ways and often to reevaluate and abandon old habits. New Englanders and their communities did change dramatically as a result of …


Ellen Churchill Semple And American Geography In An Era Of Imperialism., Ellen Elizabeth Adams Jan 2011

Ellen Churchill Semple And American Geography In An Era Of Imperialism., Ellen Elizabeth Adams

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"By Measures Taken Of Men": Clothing The Classes In William Carlin's Alexandria, Katherine Eileen Egner Jan 2011

"By Measures Taken Of Men": Clothing The Classes In William Carlin's Alexandria, Katherine Eileen Egner

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem': Identity And Politics In Eighteenth-Century English And Colonial American Theatre, 1752-1776, Abigail Calvert Fine Jan 2011

Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem': Identity And Politics In Eighteenth-Century English And Colonial American Theatre, 1752-1776, Abigail Calvert Fine

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


From Astoria To Annexation: The Hawaiian Diaspora And The Struggle For Race And Nation In The American Empire, Amanda Lee Heikialoha Savage Jan 2011

From Astoria To Annexation: The Hawaiian Diaspora And The Struggle For Race And Nation In The American Empire, Amanda Lee Heikialoha Savage

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell And The Politics Of Display In The Early Republic, Laurel Richardson Daen Jan 2011

Art/Self: Martha Ann Honeywell And The Politics Of Display In The Early Republic, Laurel Richardson Daen

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.