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Biafra And The Discourse On The Igbo Genocide, Chima J. Korieh

History Faculty Research and Publications

There has been a reluctance or indifference to a systematic study and documentation of the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria. In the main, the reason has been due to official and non-official attempts to subvert a focus on an event in which more than one million Igbo were slaughtered through a process that was fomented, orchestrated, executed, and supervised by the Nigerian state.

Review Of Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers And The Limits Of American Independence, 1640–1868 By Courtney Weikle-Mills, James Marten

History Faculty Research and Publications

No children appear in Imaginary Citizens until chapter 4, and then just barely; their presence would have made this a very different book. Yet they remain central to Courtney Weikle-Mills's argument that during the 250 years after Europeans came to the New World, children and childhood provided real and metaphorical meanings to freedom and citizenship and reflected the ways democratic values could actually be shaped by words.

Review Of La Grâce Du Roi: Les Lettres De Clémence De Grande Chancellerie Au Xviii Siècle By Reynald Abad, Julius R. Ruff

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Imperially-Minded Britons: A Study Of The Public Discourse On Britain’S Imperial Presence In The Cape-To- Cairo Corridor, Military Reform, And The Issue Of National And Provincial Identity, 1870-1900, Timothy Ramer Lay

Dissertations (1934 -)

The Victorian era was marked by the incremental expansion of the British Empire. Such developments were not only of enormous importance for government officials and the contributors of that expansion, but for the broader general public as well, as evidenced by the coverage and discussion of such developments in the Cape to Cairo corridor in the national and provincial presses between 1870 and 1900. Transcending the discussions surrounding the politics of interventionism, the public’s interest in imperial activities— such as the annexation of the Transvaal, the First Anglo-Boer War, the Zulu War, Gordon’s mission into the Sudan, the Jameson raid …

Review Of The Women's War Of 1929: A History Of Anti-Colonial Resistance In Eastern Nigeria, Chima J. Korieh

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Sombreros And Motorcycles In A Newer South: The Politics Of Aesthetics In South Carolina's Tourism Industry By P. Nicole King, Andrew W. Kahrl

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Roundtable Review Of The Land Was Ours, Andrew W. Kahrl, Jacob D. Hamblin, Sarah Elkind, Cassandra Johnson-Gaither, Colin Fisher

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Ricardo Diaz - Latino/A Mass Incarceration In Relation To The “War On Drugs”, Ricardo Diaz

Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program 2013

Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow, argues that the American legal system is a racial caste system maintained by unequal drug laws, what she terms, “The New Jim Crow” laws. This essay explores the limits of her thesis in relation to Latino/a population in the United States. Specific attention is paid to the Latino/a population in Wisconsin where racial disparities in the penal system are the greatest in America. Analysis of government data suggests that Alexander’s research reproduces the tendency of the American legal system to define race in binary terms: black and white. In effect this leaves …

Review Of Hard Times In The Hometown: A History Of Community Survival In Modern Japan, Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Mortuary Workers, The Church, And The Funeral Trade In Late Antiquity, Sarah E. Bond

History Faculty Research and Publications

Within the city of Constantinople, Constantine organized numerous funeral workers into associations overseen by a bishop, as part of a scheme meant to provide burials for all who needed them within the city. The funeral workers were given special exemptions and clerical status in return for their services. Constantine's model was imitated in other cities within the eastern Mediterranean and, as a result, established new urban patronage networks. The newly elevated funeral professionals were liminal men, between the commercial and clerical worlds and dependent on bishops for their employment and status. Some bishops exploited this dependency by using funeral workers …

Review [Of Dying On Foreign Shores: Travel And Mobility In The Late-Antique West By Mark Handley], Sarah E. Bond

History Faculty Research and Publications

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The "Negro Park" Question: Land, Labor, And Leisure In Pitt County, North Carolina, 1920-1930, Andrew W. Kahrl

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Locating Boston’S Place In Environmental History, Andrew W. Kahrl

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Hwang Jini: An Examination Of Life As A Joseon Kisaeng, Kayley Edgin

Maria Dittman Library Research Competition: Student Award Winners

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Rise Of The Modern Army 1868-1894 [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Navy, Modernized 1868-1894 [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Tokugawa Bakufu Political System [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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New Negroes At The Beach: At Work And Play Outside The Black Metropolis, Andrew W. Kahrl

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Bakumatsu Fencing Schools And Nationalism, Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Brides, Department Stores, Westerns, And Scrapbooks--The Everyday Lives Of Teenage Girls In The 1940s, Carly Anger

Dissertations (1934 -)

This study establishes a more nuanced look at fictional teenage girls of the 1940s. With the beginning of World War II many teenage girls took on jobs that were left vacant by men. With these new jobs came the opportunity to gain financial independence. However, teenage girls, along with their mothers, were expected to leave their jobs once soldiers returned from war. Thus, there was a gap between the actual experiences of teenage girls and what they were expected to be--Rosie the Riveters who were willing to become housewives at the end of the war.

This gap between actual experiences …

Mass Consumption In Milwaukee: 1920-1970, Christopher Chan

Dissertations (1934 -)

This study focuses on mass consumption's role in the development of the city of Milwaukee. This study's main focus is on the mid-twentieth century, though this case study will look at mass consumption's role in Milwaukee from its founding to the present. Mass consumption focuses on the actions of buying and selling and how consumer options reflected the city's general development. After studying the composition of Milwaukee's population and income levels, the story of mass consumption in Milwaukee will be told through studying how automobiles and food were bought and sold, as well as how other assorted shopping venues affected …

Urban Rifts And Religious Reciprocity: Chicago And The Catholic Church, 1965-1996, Dominic E. Faraone

Dissertations (1934 -)

From the late 1960s onward, a sequence of unusually transformative, combustible, and sometimes alarming urban phenomena beset the city of Chicago and bred considerable turmoil and uncertainty: post-industrial transition; street gang activity and unprecedented levels of interpersonal violence; the political ascendancy in 1983 of African American reform candidate Harold Washington to the mayor's seat; gay liberation; and AIDS. Each accentuated a host of social and/or spatial rifts--between the deteriorating city and comparatively thriving suburbs; the economically impoverished, culturally alienated, and frequently isolated inner city and the rest of Chicago; machine and reform politicians; Black lawmakers and White "ethnics"; sexual majorities …

Educationalizing The Welfare State And Privatizing Education: The Evolution Of Social Policy Since The New Deal, Harvey Kantor, Robert Lowe

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

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Organic Farming In Nazi Germany: The Politics Of Biodynamic Agriculture, 1933-1945, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

The controversy over the nature and extent of official support for organic agriculture in Nazi Germany has generally focused on the minister of agriculture, R. W. Darré, and his putative endorsement of biodynamic farming. By shifting focus from the figure of Darré to other sectors of the Nazi hierarchy, this article reexamines a contested chapter in the environmental history of the Third Reich. Using previously neglected sources, I trace several important bases of institutional support for biodynamic agriculture spanning much of the Nazi period. Both the biodynamic movement and the Nazi Party were internally heterogeneous, with different factions pursuing different …

Tokugawa Bakumatsu Military Reforms [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Tokugawa Loyalism During Bakumatsu-Boshin War [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of Face Value: The Entwined Histories Of Money And Race In America By Michael O'Malley, Andrew W. Kahrl

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Reaching Beyond The Manga: A Samurai To The Ends Of The World And The Formation Of National Identity, Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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