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1990

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'Let Them Educate Themselves': The Reform Of Separate Schools In Ottawa, 1882-1912 (Canada), Peter Anthony Postrozny Jan 1990

'Let Them Educate Themselves': The Reform Of Separate Schools In Ottawa, 1882-1912 (Canada), Peter Anthony Postrozny

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

No abstract provided.


Class Culture And Generational Change: Immigrant Families In Two Connecticut Industrial Cities During The 1930s, Ivan Greenberg Jan 1990

Class Culture And Generational Change: Immigrant Families In Two Connecticut Industrial Cities During The 1930s, Ivan Greenberg

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Recent social history stresses the autonomy of workers, especially the ways that immigrant families made "lives of their own." However, little attention is focused on the particular experiences of the second generation and the ways they forged their own group identity. This study, by locating the emergence of this generation, highlights an important demographic change within the working class.

Familiar developments of the 1930s take on new meaning. For example, the pivotal role of the second generation in the rise of the CIO helps to recast the early history of industrial unionism. The resurgence of the labor movement parallels the …


The American Influence On The Mindanao Resistance During The Second World War, Michael Anthony Balis Jan 1990

The American Influence On The Mindanao Resistance During The Second World War, Michael Anthony Balis

History Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the American participation in the development of resistance against the Japanese on Mindanao Island in the Philippines, 1942-1945. Americans directed the overall resistance movement and commanded most of the provinces. As leaders Americans played a key role in the evolution of the resistance from an independent guerrilla force to a partisan force that gave U.S. forces combat and intelligence assistance. The most important information for the thesis came from the MacArthur Archives, the Hayden Papers at the University of Michigan, the U.S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle Barracks, and correspondence with 14 men who served with …


West Germany's Ostpolitik And Relations With The United States Under Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, And Helmut Kohl, David J. Bollmann Jan 1990

West Germany's Ostpolitik And Relations With The United States Under Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, And Helmut Kohl, David J. Bollmann

Masters Theses

Many questions arose during the late 1970s and early 1980s about the reliability of West Germany's relationship with the United States. This thesis was written to examine the relationship between the United States and West Germany during the post-war years, especially during the Chancellorships of Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, and Helmut Kohl.

The initial phase of U.S.-FRG relations was marked with a great deal of harmony between the two countries. The United States placed a great deal of emphasis on West Germany as part of its evolving containment of communism strategy. The FRG was recognized as a nation in 1949 …


Benjamin Trott: Miniature Painter, Anne Ayer Verplanck Jan 1990

Benjamin Trott: Miniature Painter, Anne Ayer Verplanck

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Master-Slave Relations: A Williamsburg Perspective, Ywone Edwards-Ingram Jan 1990

Master-Slave Relations: A Williamsburg Perspective, Ywone Edwards-Ingram

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Four Perceptions Of Suicide In Sixteenth- And Early Seventeenth-Century England, Alexandra Mary Lord Jan 1990

Four Perceptions Of Suicide In Sixteenth- And Early Seventeenth-Century England, Alexandra Mary Lord

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"If I Had My Health ": Ideas About Illness And Healing In The Lisle Letters, Margaret T. Mitchell Jan 1990

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

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


For Peace And Prosperity: The Defense, Trade, And Expansion Polices Of Governor Alexander Spotswood, Frances Susan Mazur Jan 1990

For Peace And Prosperity: The Defense, Trade, And Expansion Polices Of Governor Alexander Spotswood, Frances Susan Mazur

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Filling The Political Vacuum: The United States And Germany, 1944-1946, Stephen Haynes Lewis Jan 1990

Filling The Political Vacuum: The United States And Germany, 1944-1946, Stephen Haynes Lewis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.