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Psychic Waste: Freud, Fechner And The Principle Of Constancy, Suzanne Raitt Dec 2002

Psychic Waste: Freud, Fechner And The Principle Of Constancy, Suzanne Raitt

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

Twentieth-century culture is obsessed with waste. We worry about whether or not to recycle it, how to dispose of it, whether it is safe, and what will happen to it when we have finally got rid of it. Detritus has its own taxonomy: “rubbish,” “garbage,” and “litter,” for example, construct it as an essentially random, cumulative phenomenon, a by-product of our daily domestic lives. To call something “waste,” on the other hand, is to invoke its history. Nuclear waste, bodily waste, and medical waste are all the result of specific processes: they gesture back to the productive economies that generated …


A Festival Of The Law: Napoleon's Jewish Assemblies, Ronald Schechter Jan 2002

A Festival Of The Law: Napoleon's Jewish Assemblies, Ronald Schechter

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

This book reconsiders the transition from the French Revolution to Napoleon, a period often described in terms of social chaos, ineffectual government, and democratic disappointment.


American Identity And The Wild West Show, 1880-1910, Susan Ann Stark Jan 2002

American Identity And The Wild West Show, 1880-1910, Susan Ann Stark

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission And Servanthood In Rhetoric Of The Promise Keepers, Erica J. Smith Jan 2002

Humble Servants, Prideful Patriarchs: Submission And Servanthood In Rhetoric Of The Promise Keepers, Erica J. Smith

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


For Profit And Function: Consumption Patterns And Outward Expression Of Quakers As Seen Through Historical Documentation And 18th Century York County, Virginia Probate Inventories, Darby O'Donnell Jan 2002

For Profit And Function: Consumption Patterns And Outward Expression Of Quakers As Seen Through Historical Documentation And 18th Century York County, Virginia Probate Inventories, Darby O'Donnell

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Byron And The Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla Jan 2002

Byron And The Modernist Writers, Elena M. Padilla

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Commonwealth: Republican Rhetoric In The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention Of 1837-38, Sean Patrick Harvey Jan 2002

Commonwealth: Republican Rhetoric In The Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention Of 1837-38, Sean Patrick Harvey

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Men In Green: African Americans And The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942, Michael Shane Hoak Jan 2002

The Men In Green: African Americans And The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942, Michael Shane Hoak

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"Hitched To A Steam Engine": Marriage And Crises Of Gender At Park Church In Nineteenth-Century Elmira, New York, Bridget Louise Reddick Jan 2002

"Hitched To A Steam Engine": Marriage And Crises Of Gender At Park Church In Nineteenth-Century Elmira, New York, Bridget Louise Reddick

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Struggle For Community In Revolutionary Newport, Joshua Fogarty Beatty Jan 2002

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Struggle For Community In Revolutionary Newport, Joshua Fogarty Beatty

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Wyoming Valley Battle And 'Massacre': Images Of A Constructed American History, Lisa A. Francavilla Jan 2002

The Wyoming Valley Battle And 'Massacre': Images Of A Constructed American History, Lisa A. Francavilla

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Study Of Talent Development In A Predominantly Low Socioeconomic And/Or African American Population, Jeanne Marie Struck Jan 2002

A Study Of Talent Development In A Predominantly Low Socioeconomic And/Or African American Population, Jeanne Marie Struck

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, And The Bachelor In Nineteenth-Century America, Matthew Cohen Jan 2002

The Still Life: Domesticity, Subjectivity, And The Bachelor In Nineteenth-Century America, Matthew Cohen

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

"The Still Life" explores debates over single manhood in the culture of the nineteenth-century United States. Until recently, the "bachelor" was less an identifiable social type than a battleground for discourses of privacy and intimacy, sympathy and sentiment, and labor and leisure. Representations of the bachelor tended to excite readers' concerns about the relationships among emotion, public behavior, and intellectual prowess. Concentrating on constructions of the bachelor within specific discursive arenas, this dissertation examines "bachelorhood" as a way culture organized a wide range of ideologies and experiences. Though the bachelor's particular significance faded in the twentieth century, a conceptual roadblock …


Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety Jan 2002

Bishop Madison And The Guardian Angels Of Science, Amanda Kay Mcvety

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Evaluating Music Teachers In Virginia: Practices And Perceptions, Charles Maranzano Jan 2002

Evaluating Music Teachers In Virginia: Practices And Perceptions, Charles Maranzano

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate current evaluation practices in Virginia and to assess the impact of public school evaluation upon teachers of music. Traditional methods for the evaluation of teachers appear to have limited applicability for the majority of elementary and secondary school educators engaged in the field of performing arts, due primarily to the specialized nature of their respective teaching disciplines. Educational administrators charged with the responsibility for evaluating personnel confront an additional challenge when compelled to apply general models that are not suited to the highly complex world of performing arts instruction. Music teachers and …


The Texture Of Contact: European And Indian Settler Communities On The Iroquoian Borderlands, 1720-1780, David L. Preston Jan 2002

The Texture Of Contact: European And Indian Settler Communities On The Iroquoian Borderlands, 1720-1780, David L. Preston

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation is a comparative study of cultural relationships between European and Indian settler communities along the Six Nations' borders with New York and Pennsylvania from 1720 to 1780. It particularly examines "everyday encounters" between ordinary peoples---a dimension of colonial social and economic life that has usually escaped historians' attention. Palatine, Scots, Irish, Dutch, and English colonists not only lived close to Indian villages but also frequently interacted with Iroquois, Delawares, and other natives. Frontier farms, forts, churches, and taverns were scenes of frequent face-to-face meetings between colonists and Indians. My dissertation explores the dynamics of settler-Indian encounters and how …


A Study Of Transition In Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799, Anna Catherine Borden Anderson Jan 2002

A Study Of Transition In Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799, Anna Catherine Borden Anderson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Emily Dickinson's And Christina Rossetti's Portrayals Of Goblins And Their Threat To Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard Jan 2002

Emily Dickinson's And Christina Rossetti's Portrayals Of Goblins And Their Threat To Feminine Integrity, Miki Jean Hazard

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Mat Fakar-Nish Jan 2002

Mat Fakar-Nish

Sheet Music

No abstract provided.


A Phenomenological Investigation Of Women's Experience In Family Counseling: Interviews With Ten Mothers, Sharon Wilson Krumpe Jan 2002

A Phenomenological Investigation Of Women's Experience In Family Counseling: Interviews With Ten Mothers, Sharon Wilson Krumpe

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Fair Visions: Elkanah Watson (1758--1842) And The Modern American Agricultural Fair, Mark A. Mastromarino Jan 2002

Fair Visions: Elkanah Watson (1758--1842) And The Modern American Agricultural Fair, Mark A. Mastromarino

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The modern American agricultural fair, an annual harvest-time celebration at which livestock, produce, and handicrafts are exhibited for premiums, originated as an innovative response to conditions in rural New England at the time of the War of 1812. This study explains the birth of the institution by scrutinizing the motives and methods of its founders. In particular, it traces the intellectual journey from Puritan youth to Jeffersonian promoter of Plymouth, Massachusetts, native Elkanah Watson (1758--1842), its chief publicist. This dissertation also examines the specific social, economic, and political forces that shaped Pittsfield, Massachusetts---to which he retired from a mercantile career …


American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism, 1815--1860, Elizabeth Kelly Gray Jan 2002

American Attitudes Toward British Imperialism, 1815--1860, Elizabeth Kelly Gray

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation explores American attitudes toward British imperialism between 1815 and 1860 to determine what Americans thought of imperialism before the United States became an imperial power. It addresses the debate of whether the United States's acquisition of an empire in the 1890s was intentional or was, as many historians have characterized it, an accidental acquisition by a people long opposed to empire. This study also explores the benefits of incorporating American culture and society into the study of American imperialism.;This era connects the time when Americans re-established their independence from Great Britain---with the War of 1812---to the eve of …


The Jesus People Movement And The Awakening Of The Late 1960s, Christina Barnes Williams Jan 2002

The Jesus People Movement And The Awakening Of The Late 1960s, Christina Barnes Williams

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Literature Of Combat: African American Prison Writers Of The Vietnam Era, John William Weber Jan 2002

A Literature Of Combat: African American Prison Writers Of The Vietnam Era, John William Weber

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose Jan 2002

Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp Jan 2002

Creole Gumbo: Ingredients For Maintaining Creole Identity At Laura Plantation, Katherine W. Schupp

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Pig Remains At The Ashbridge Estate, Toronto: The Importance Of Swine In The Settlement Of Upper Canada, Joanna Elizabeth Reading Jan 2002

Pig Remains At The Ashbridge Estate, Toronto: The Importance Of Swine In The Settlement Of Upper Canada, Joanna Elizabeth Reading

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Living On The Periphery: A Study Of An Eighteenth-Century Yamasee Mission Community In Colonial St Augustine, Andrea Paige White Jan 2002

Living On The Periphery: A Study Of An Eighteenth-Century Yamasee Mission Community In Colonial St Augustine, Andrea Paige White

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas E. Ross Jan 2002

Domestic Brick Architecture In Early Colonial Virginia, Douglas E. Ross

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Between Slavery And Freedom: African Americans In The Great Dismal Swamp 1763-1863, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf Jan 2002

Between Slavery And Freedom: African Americans In The Great Dismal Swamp 1763-1863, Edward Downing Maris-Wolf

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.