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Educating Eighteenth-Century Black Children: The Bray Schools, Jennifer Bridges Oast
Educating Eighteenth-Century Black Children: The Bray Schools, Jennifer Bridges Oast
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Bootlegging And The Borderlands: Canadians, Americans, And The Prohibition -Era Northwest, Stephen T. Moore
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
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Ruled With A Pen: Land, Language, And The Invention Of Maine, Gavin James Taylor
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 …
"Bonds Of Friendship And Mutual Interest": Virginia's Waterways Improvement Companies, 1784--1828, Lawrence Jeffrey Perez
"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
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 …
The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman
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
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
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.
Atoms, Pounds And Poor Relations: The Illusion Of An Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1941-1946, Edward J. Gustafson
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
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
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
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
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
"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
"Faithful Child Of God": Nancy Towle, 1796-1876, Judith Bledsoe Bailey
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"From A Determined Resolution To Get Liberty": Slaves And The British In Revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781, Brian David Palladino
"From A Determined Resolution To Get Liberty": Slaves And The British In Revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781, Brian David Palladino
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"To Lay What Restraint They Could": Deerskins, Regulators, And Social Disorder In The South Carolina Backcountry, 1761-1772, Robert Paulett
"To Lay What Restraint They Could": Deerskins, Regulators, And Social Disorder In The South Carolina Backcountry, 1761-1772, Robert Paulett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"So Long As The Sunne And Moone Endureth": Religion And Empire In England, 1576-1614, Sharon Sauder
"So Long As The Sunne And Moone Endureth": Religion And Empire In England, 1576-1614, Sharon Sauder
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Encounters, Identities, And Human Bondage: The Foundations Of Racial Slavery In The Anglo-Atlantic World, Michael Joseph Guasco
Encounters, Identities, And Human Bondage: The Foundations Of Racial Slavery In The Anglo-Atlantic World, Michael Joseph Guasco
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The problematic relationship between racism and slavery has occupied the attention of several recent generations of scholars. Too often, however, the works produced have been limited by a reliance on familiar "American" sources, an inflexible temporal scope, and an overly restricted terrain. This dissertation seeks to break out of the confines of this generally teleological and parochial tradition in order to explicate the larger social and cultural context in which Anglo-American racial slavery was forged. In particular, it is argued that racism and slavery were not necessarily linked together in the English imagination before the settlement of Jamestown and that …
Exercising Their Freedom: The Great African-American Migration And Blacks Who Remained In The South, 1915-1920, Patrick E. O'Neil
Exercising Their Freedom: The Great African-American Migration And Blacks Who Remained In The South, 1915-1920, Patrick E. O'Neil
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed": Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker And Women's Leadership And Organizing In The Struggle For Freedom, Susan Milane Glisson
"Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed": Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker And Women's Leadership And Organizing In The Struggle For Freedom, Susan Milane Glisson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation examines the feminized and racialized strategies of women organizers in the struggle for freedom. The lives of Lucy Randolph Mason and Ella Jo Baker suggest much about the ways in which women reject and change traditional leadership roles in order to create, build, and maintain the momentum of mass movements. Both women believed in the fundamental necessity of local people determining the responses to their oppression. This work, therefore, is an attempt to offer a description of Mason and Baker's organizing strategies and leadership styles, a description which can be read as a manual for creating social change.;Each …
Religious Change And Plateau Indians: 1500 -1850, Larry Cebula
Religious Change And Plateau Indians: 1500 -1850, Larry Cebula
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study is an ethnohistorical examination of Indian religious responses to contact with Euroamericans on the Columbia Plateau, from 1600 to 1850. Plateau natives understood their encounter with European civilization primarily as a momentous spiritual event, and sought new sources of spiritual power to cope with their rapidly changing world. White people seemed to the Indians to have an abundance of spirit power, and many native religious efforts were aimed at capturing some of this power for themselves. These efforts included the protohistoric Prophet Dance, the syncretic "Columbian Religion" of the fur trade era, and the initial enthusiastic response to …
The Honorable Fraternity Of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers In The Old South, 1800--1860, Joseph T. Rainer
The Honorable Fraternity Of Moving Merchants: Yankee Peddlers In The Old South, 1800--1860, Joseph T. Rainer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Yankee peddlers were ubiquitous in the countryside and in the imagination of the Old South. Social and economic forces pushed young men off the farms of rural New England and pulled them into an expanding, national market. The shortage of land for a burgeoning population spurred the exodus from the countryside, while the lure of profits from a vocation with low entry costs attracted many young men who preferred seeking the main chance in the commercial marketplace to a state of protracted dependency as a farm hand, a factory operative, or an outwork producer. Hired by firms to peddle clocks, …