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"If I Had My Health ": Ideas About Illness And Healing In The Lisle Letters, Margaret T. Mitchell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Acculturation Between The Indian And European Fur Traders In Hudson Bay 1668-1821, Lisa C. Mullins

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Virginia And Western Territorial Government, 1780-1787, Leslie Scott Philyaw

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Minister In All But Name: The Letters Of Martha Gerrish (1689-1736), Jessica Philyaw

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Quiet Diplomacy: President Eisenhower And Dien Bien Phu, William Stuart Maddox

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Unkindest Cut: The Decision To Withhold I Corps From The Peninsula Campaign, 1862, Christianne Nidonnell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Fatal Enigma?: The Reception Of Smallpox Inoculation In Colonial Massachusetts, Monika Drake Patten

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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"The Most Proper And Convenient Place": The Debate Over North Carolina's Seat Of Government, 1676-1791, Alan Ray Stokes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Literature As A Tool For Cultural Analysis: A Post-Processual Examination Of The Ante-Bellum Tidewater Elite 1830-1860, Shirley Kathryn Holmes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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On The Marchlands Of Empire: Trade, Diplomacy, And War On The Southeastern Frontier, 1733-1763, Michael James Foret

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Southeastern North America was the scene of international, intercultural, and interethnic frontiers during the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Europeans and Indians existed there in greater relative concentrations than anywhere else in North America, and each European colony and Indian nation constituted a different locus of trade, diplomacy, and war. Because of the relatively high population density and national and ethnic complexity of the region, commercial, diplomatic, and military relations there exhibited a different character than in earlier-colonized regions from Virginia northward and in the Caribbean.;The southeastern Indians existed in a state of dependency in the eighteenth century which …

Belonging To The Army: Camp Followers And The Military Community During The American Revolution, Holly A. Mayer

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The Continental Army was the cause and the core of a military community made up of both army personnel and camp followers, who together and separately affected the military mission. The dissertation focuses primarily on the civilian, as opposed to the military, members of the "Continental Community." Fitting within the broad context of social history, it is also a part of the new military history.;Books and articles on armies have typically dealt with the military structure, the campaigns and battles, and the exploits of uniformed heroes or traitors. Those accounts provide merely the background here. In this dissertation, the military …

Across The First Divide: Frontiers Of Settlement And Culture In Augusta County, Virginia, 1738-1770, Nathaniel Turk Mccleskey

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This is a history of a frontier county in late colonial Virginia. Augusta County was created in 1738 and subdivided for the first time in 1770. During the intervening years it encompassed most of Virginia's claims to land west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.;As drawn by Virginians, the borders of Augusta County simultaneously encompassed two types of frontiers: a frontier of settlement on which white immigrants created a new society, and a frontier of culture in which those settlers interacted with a variety of Indians. This study examines both types of frontier experiences.;On the settlement frontier, white immigrants rapidly created …

A Study Of Art Unions In The United States Of America In The Nineteenth Century, Jane Aldrich Dowling Adams

Theses and Dissertations

During the first half of the nineteenth century in many cities in Germany, England and the United States, free and public galleries were opened to encourage the purchase of art works. Some sponsoring organizations were controlled by artists and some by interested lay persons. All of the sponsors hoped to educate the public and to elevate artistic taste as well as to sell works of art. Many of the organizations offered a premium in the form of a yearly engraving to induce interest and to promote membership. Often there was an annual distribution of paintings and other works of art …

Archaeology At Bennett Farm: The Life Style Of A Seventeenth-Century Middling Planter In York County, Virginia, Nicholas Michael Luccketti

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Breaking The Formula: Politics And Sexuality In Lesbian Detective Fiction, Meredith Abner Wood

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Benjamin Trott: Miniature Painter, Anne Ayer Verplanck

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Hilton Village, Virginia: The Government's First Model Industrial Community, Margaret M. Mulrooney

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Chinese Immigrants To America: The Matic Dimensions, Sui Wu

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Early English Firearms: A Re-Examination Of The Evidence, Beverly Ann Straube

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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A Search For The Body: L'Ecriture Feminine And Delta Wedding, Diane Truitt Nichols

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Quaker Influence On Nantucket Architecture: A Case Study, Anne Elizabeth Gaeta

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The American Academy Of The Fine Arts, New York, 1802-1842. (Volumes I And Ii), Carrie J. Rebora

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In 1802, Robert R. Livingston, the United States Minister to France, conceived of the American Academy as a salon that would inspire American artists and uplift the minds of others. His brother Edward, Mayor of New York who also believed that the city's leaders were responsible for the cultural enlightenment of artists and the general public, generated financial support from the city's ruling elite. Neither the Livingstons nor the members, however, planned for the Academy's operation. The institution languished until Mayor De Witt Clinton assumed the Academy presidency in 1813. With the help of his friend John Pintard, Clinton placed …

John Dryden: Persuasive Principles In "Absalom And Achitophel" And "Religio Laici", Kathy Seymour Albertson

Legacy ETDs

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On A Women's Language, Tamara Brown

Dissertations and Theses

Assessing the feminist belief that women have a perspective dramatically differing from the patriarchal perspective, and that this viewpoint is, or could be, couched in a language differing from the norm, this researcher addressed the following three questions: (1) is there a definition of a women's language? (2) does a women's language exist? and (3) if a women's language does exist, in what form does it exist? These questions engendered feminist rhetorical criticism on the work of two radical feminists well known for their interest in, and attention to, the issue of a women's language.

Selecting Literature To Teach Musical Style In The High School Band, David Scott Lawrenson

WWU Graduate School Collection

The problem presented in this thesis is how band literature should be chosen for use in the high school band classroom. The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the justification and criteria for selecting appropriate literature to teach musical style in the high school band class. Two questions central to the purpose of this thesis are: 1) Why should style be used as a factor in determining literature selection and, 2) What elements of style are important when selecting literature based on this justification?

In music education, two distinct philosophies concerning performance classes have emerged: aesthetics and performance. The …

Lavilla, Florida, 1866-1887: Reconstruction Dreams And The Formation Of A Black Community, Patricia Drozd Kenney

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Several factors which influenced the formation of an urban black community following the Civil War are examined in this study. Prior to the war, LaVilla, a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida, was sparsely populated by wealthy white families. At war's end, freedmen seeking shelter and work took advantage of the inexpensive housing and proximity to employment LaVilla offered and, by 1870, became the majority population. The years 1866 through 1887 have been chosen for this study because they demarcate LaVilla's inception on the one hand and, on the other, its disappearance as an independent entity. Local, state, and federal records have …

A Survey Of Diplomatic And Commercial Relations Between The United States And Oman In Zanzibar, 1828-1856, Mohammed Al-Mukadam

Dissertations and Theses

Informal relations between American merchant traders and the Sultanate of Oman in the port of Zanzibar began with the landing of the first American merchants about 1828. At the same approximate time, Sultan Said bin Sultan moved his official residence from Muscat, Oman, to Zanzibar, underlining the importance of Zanzibar to the administration of his territories on the East African coast. Relations were formalized by the Treaty of 1833 between the United States and Oman, and the U.S. established a consular mission in Zanzibar in 1837 and in Muscat in 1838.

The growth of the Omani Empire under Sultan Said …

Nietzsche's "Woman" : A Metaphor Without Brakes, Kathleen Merrow

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis reconsiders the generally held view that Friedrich Nietzsche's works are misogynist. In doing so it provides an interpretation of Nietzsche's texts with respect to the metaphor "woman," sets this interpretation into an historical context of Nietzsche reception and follows the extension of Nietzsche's metaphor "woman" into French feminist theory. It provides an interpretation that shows that a misogynist reading of Nietzsche is in error because such a reading fails to consider the multiple perspectives that operate in Nietzsche's texts.

The Early Latin Sources For The Legend Of St. Martha A Study And Translation With Critical Notes, Diane Peters

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation focuses on the legends surrounding St. Martha of Bethany. Four major Latin versions are extant, dating from the late twelfth to the mid-thirteenth centuries: the Vita Pseudo-Marcilia, the Vita Beatae Mariae Magdalenae et Sororis Eius Sanctae Marthae, and selected chapters in Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum Historiale and Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea. In these lives of the saint, traditional material derived from Scripture is supplemented by descriptions of Martha’s legendary life as an early missionary in Provence. The substance of these legends proved extremely influential for art and vernacular literature in the later Middle Ages. The text which …