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2000-2001, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’ Sep 2000

2000-2001, Middle Eastern Music Ensemble’

Ephemera Materials

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Introduction To "Mary Sinclair: A Modern Victorian", Suzanne Raitt May 2000

Introduction To "Mary Sinclair: A Modern Victorian", Suzanne Raitt

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a bestselling novelist who was one of the first British women to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of this woman whose emotional isolation bears witness to the great price Victorian women had to pay for their intellectual freedom.


Narrative Mastery And Representational Violence In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", Elizabeth Weston Jan 2000

Narrative Mastery And Representational Violence In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", Elizabeth Weston

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Educating Eighteenth-Century Black Children: The Bray Schools, Jennifer Bridges Oast Jan 2000

Educating Eighteenth-Century Black Children: The Bray Schools, Jennifer Bridges Oast

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Dissemination Of Rumor Among The Cherokees And Their Neighbors In The Eighteenth Century, Marion A. Cail Jan 2000

The Dissemination Of Rumor Among The Cherokees And Their Neighbors In The Eighteenth Century, Marion A. Cail

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Bootlegging And The Borderlands: Canadians, Americans, And The Prohibition -Era Northwest, Stephen T. Moore Jan 2000

Bootlegging And The Borderlands: Canadians, Americans, And The Prohibition -Era Northwest, Stephen T. Moore

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Between 1920 and 1933, no issue in Canadian-American relations proved more contentious or more intractable than prohibition. While American enforcement authorities and diplomats repeatedly sought the assistance of the Dominion government to stop the flow of liquor across the border, not until 1933 did Canada acquiesce to American requests. In the meantime, Canadian brewers, distillers, rumrunners, and bootleggers were more than happy to assuage the parched throats of their American neighbors.;By examining the geographic, historical, political, economic, social, and cultural fabric of the bilateral relationship in the Pacific Northwest borderlands, this study takes a regional approach to explain the intractability …


Defending The Constitution, Nicholas M. Wolf Jan 2000

Defending The Constitution, Nicholas M. Wolf

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Black Pilots, Patriots, And Pirates: African-American Participation In The Virginia State And British Navies During The Revolutionary War In Virginia, Kolby Bilal Jan 2000

Black Pilots, Patriots, And Pirates: African-American Participation In The Virginia State And British Navies During The Revolutionary War In Virginia, Kolby Bilal

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Far From "Everybody's Everything": Literary Tricksters In African American And Chinese American Fiction, Crystal Suzette Anderson Jan 2000

Far From "Everybody's Everything": Literary Tricksters In African American And Chinese American Fiction, Crystal Suzette Anderson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation examines trickster sensibilities and behavior as models for racial strategies in contemporary novels by African American and Chinese American authors. While many trickster studies focus on myth, I assert that realist fiction provides a unique historical and cultural space that shapes trickster behavior. John Edgar Wideman, Gloria Naylor, Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston use the trickster in their novels to articulate diverse racial strategies for people of color who must negotiate among a variety of cultural influences. My critical trickster paradigm investigates the motives and behavior of tricksters. It utilizes close literary readings that are strengthened by …


Ruled With A Pen: Land, Language, And The Invention Of Maine, Gavin James Taylor Jan 2000

Ruled With A Pen: Land, Language, And The Invention Of Maine, Gavin James Taylor

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

As Europeans expanded across North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they parceled their territorial acquisitions into a variety of administrative subdivisions. Naming and dividing the land became an integral part of the project of colonization; the conquest of territory involved the transformation of unknown places into clearly defined jurisdictions. This dissertation examines the invention of one jurisdiction, the state of Maine, viewing the evolution of its borders as a reflection of the growth of state power in the region. Seeing an inextricable link between social and territorial boundaries, it ties the development of the territory of Maine to …


Representing Culture And Class: An Exploration Of Narrative Containment Strategies In Henry Mayhew And George Gissing, Lona Catherine Carwile Jan 2000

Representing Culture And Class: An Exploration Of Narrative Containment Strategies In Henry Mayhew And George Gissing, Lona Catherine Carwile

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Career Path Advancement And The Female Principal, Beverly Toombs Chappell Jan 2000

Career Path Advancement And The Female Principal, Beverly Toombs Chappell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of Womanist Identity On The Development Of Eating Disorders And Depression In African American Female College Students, Theresa Ford Jan 2000

The Influence Of Womanist Identity On The Development Of Eating Disorders And Depression In African American Female College Students, Theresa Ford

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Racial Identity, Ethnic Identity, And Acculturation In Korean Adoptees, Kathleen Leilani Ja Bergquist Jan 2000

Racial Identity, Ethnic Identity, And Acculturation In Korean Adoptees, Kathleen Leilani Ja Bergquist

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This study explored the relationships between racial identity, ethnic identity, and acculturation in transracial Korean adopted adolescents. The research questions were as follows: What is the relationship between racial and ethnic identity for adoptees? What is the relationship between racial identity and adoptees' level of acculturation? What is the relationship between adoptees' level of acculturation and ethnic identity? The research was exploratory in nature and entailed a quantitative design comprised of (1) a demographic profile, (2) Helm's (1995) People of Color Scale to measure racial identity, (3) Suinn-Lew's (1992) Self-Identity Acculturation Scale (SL-ASIA) to measure ethnic identity, and (4) Schonpflug's …


"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering Of Drama In "Exiles" And "Circe", John F. X. Flynn Jan 2000

"By Contraries" ("Ulysses" 15.3928): James Joyce's Rendering Of Drama In "Exiles" And "Circe", John F. X. Flynn

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Bonds Of Friendship And Mutual Interest": Virginia's Waterways Improvement Companies, 1784--1828, Lawrence Jeffrey Perez Jan 2000

"Bonds Of Friendship And Mutual Interest": Virginia's Waterways Improvement Companies, 1784--1828, Lawrence Jeffrey Perez

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study is to review the creation and progress of the four Virginia waterways improvement companies which had their origins in the 1780s: the Potowmack Company, the James River Company, the Upper Appomattox Company, and the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. Primary research focused on company journals and family papers, legislative petitions, the annual reports of the Virginia Board of Public Works, and contemporary periodicals.;This study reveals that Virginians' approach to waterways improvements was simultaneously classical and liberal. The improvement advocates clung to an Opposition belief that a healthy republican polity depended on the existence of a class …


To Urge Common Sense On The Americans: United States' Relations With France, Great Britain, And The Federal Republic Of Germany In The Context Of The Vietnam War, 1961-1968, Eugenie M. Blang Jan 2000

To Urge Common Sense On The Americans: United States' Relations With France, Great Britain, And The Federal Republic Of Germany In The Context Of The Vietnam War, 1961-1968, Eugenie M. Blang

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

America's Vietnam War had profound ramifications beyond its immediate effect on Southeast Asia and the United States. This dissertation utilizes the debate over Vietnam between the United States and its major European allies, Britain, France, and West Germany, as an analytical framework to examine inter-allied relations. The "Vietnam problem" strained the traps-Atlantic alliance and revealed the respective self-interest of the four member nations. The British, French, and West Germans had serious misgivings about the American strategy in Vietnam, based on a differing view of the nature of the conflict and a pessimistic assessment of American chances for success in South …


A World Of Goods: The Printer's Economy In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson Jan 2000

A World Of Goods: The Printer's Economy In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson

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.


The Illustrated Map: Cartography And Power In Seventeenth Century Virginia, Christine Jeanette Green Jan 2000

The Illustrated Map: Cartography And Power In Seventeenth Century Virginia, Christine Jeanette Green

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Bacchus And Bellum: The Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade And The Hundred Years War (987 To 1453 A.D), Christopher D. Turgeon Jan 2000

Bacchus And Bellum: The Anglo-Gascon Wine Trade And The Hundred Years War (987 To 1453 A.D), Christopher D. Turgeon

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Text And Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction And Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Cynthia Nicole Eddy Jan 2000

Text And Context: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction And Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Cynthia Nicole Eddy

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Atoms, Pounds And Poor Relations: The Illusion Of An Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1941-1946, Edward J. Gustafson Jan 2000

Atoms, Pounds And Poor Relations: The Illusion Of An Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1941-1946, Edward J. Gustafson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Warfare In Colonial America: Prelude And Promise, David Michael Corlett Jan 2000

Warfare In Colonial America: Prelude And Promise, David Michael Corlett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Behind The United Front: The Effects Of Anglo-Powhatan Relations On Settler Conflict And Consensus In Virginia, 1607-1675, Stephen D. Feeley Jan 2000

Behind The United Front: The Effects Of Anglo-Powhatan Relations On Settler Conflict And Consensus In Virginia, 1607-1675, Stephen D. Feeley

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Language Of The Clergy: Religious And Political Discourse In Revolutionary America, 1754-1783, Cristine E. Maglieri Jan 2000

The Language Of The Clergy: Religious And Political Discourse In Revolutionary America, 1754-1783, Cristine E. Maglieri

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor And Luxury In Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture, Robin Veder Jan 2000

How Gardening Pays: Leisure, Labor And Luxury In Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture, Robin Veder

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

"How Gardening Pays" is a case study of the formation and transmission of cultural practices and interpretations of flower-gardening as profitable leisure, idealized labor, and luxury consumption in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture. Mid-nineteenth-century cant about American flower-gardening as an anti-materialistic and morally improving occupation was premised upon the multiple functions of flower gardening in British working-class culture. Methodologically, this dissertation is unlike most intellectual histories of the ideological significance of nature in American culture, or formal studies of the physical attributes of horticultural history, because it demonstrates how ideologies and material practices were interrelated.;The first half of this dissertation focuses on …


"Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Friends": Cardinal Wolsey And The Politics Of The "Great Enterprise," 1518-1525, Shawn Jeremy Martin Jan 2000

"Once More Unto The Breach, Dear Friends": Cardinal Wolsey And The Politics Of The "Great Enterprise," 1518-1525, Shawn Jeremy Martin

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Faithful Child Of God": Nancy Towle, 1796-1876, Judith Bledsoe Bailey Jan 2000

"Faithful Child Of God": Nancy Towle, 1796-1876, Judith Bledsoe Bailey

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Trait And State Determinants Of Preference For Abstract Art, Tara Brady Jan 2000

Trait And State Determinants Of Preference For Abstract Art, Tara Brady

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.