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The Revolutionary Career Of Louis Philippe De SéGur: Caught Between Tradition And Reform, Lauren Wallace
The Revolutionary Career Of Louis Philippe De SéGur: Caught Between Tradition And Reform, Lauren Wallace
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Towns In Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, And Empire In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite
Towns In Mind: Urban Plans, Political Culture, And Empire In The Colonial Chesapeake, 1607--1722, Paul Philip Musselwhite
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This dissertation charts the contested political and cultural meaning of urbanization in the emerging plantation societies of Virginia and Maryland. Scholars have long asserted that Chesapeake planters' desire for lucre led them to patent huge tracts of land, disperse across the landscape, and completely dismiss urban development. However, through 17 pieces of legislation, colonists, governors, and London administrators actually encouraged towns in the Chesapeake through the seventeenth century. Despite the environmental and agricultural constraints of tidewater tobacco, both colonies wrestled with a perceived need for towns, which consistently appeared to represent the best means to engineer the region's political economy …
"I Would Cut My Bones For Him": Concepts Of Loyalty, Social Change, And Culture In The Scottish Highlands, From The Clans To The American Revolution, Alana Speth
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Flag Planting And Mapmaking: English Claims To North America, Andrew Keith Sturtevant
Flag Planting And Mapmaking: English Claims To North America, Andrew Keith Sturtevant
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Rising Of 1798 And The Political Foundation Of Irish-American Identity, William A. Sullivan
The Rising Of 1798 And The Political Foundation Of Irish-American Identity, William A. Sullivan
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
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No abstract provided.
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
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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 …
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.
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 …
First Contact: Early English Encounters With Natives Of Russia, West Africa, And The Americas, 1530-1614, Melanie Lynn Perreault
First Contact: Early English Encounters With Natives Of Russia, West Africa, And The Americas, 1530-1614, Melanie Lynn Perreault
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In recent years, the field of comparative history has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity as scholars attempt to understand the past in a global context. This study examines the early period of English exploration of the Atlantic world and the confrontation of English men and women with natives of geographically distinct regions. By comparing English interactions with Russians, West Africans, and North and South Americans during the contact period, this dissertation argues that the mutually constructed dialogue between the visiting English and the natives of each region was a struggle for power and control. In their efforts to construct the …
Justification: How The Elizabethans Explained Their Invasions Of Ireland And Virginia, Christopher Ludden Mcdaid
Justification: How The Elizabethans Explained Their Invasions Of Ireland And Virginia, Christopher Ludden Mcdaid
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Filling The Political Vacuum: The United States And Germany, 1944-1946, Stephen Haynes Lewis
Filling The Political Vacuum: The United States And Germany, 1944-1946, Stephen Haynes Lewis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Who Controlled Cruise?: The 1983 Deployment Of Cruise Missiles In The United Kingdom And The Post-1945 Anglo-American Special Relationship In Defense, Colin James Donald
Who Controlled Cruise?: The 1983 Deployment Of Cruise Missiles In The United Kingdom And The Post-1945 Anglo-American Special Relationship In Defense, Colin James Donald
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks
The Planning And Development Of Two Moravian Congregation Towns: Salem, North Carolina And Gracehill, Northern Ireland, Christopher E. Hendricks
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Hendrik Van Paesschen, Architect Of The Northern European Renaissance, John Fitzhugh Millar
Hendrik Van Paesschen, Architect Of The Northern European Renaissance, John Fitzhugh Millar
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Disruptions In The British-Virginia Trade, 1734-1764, Susan Ilene Gibbons
Disruptions In The British-Virginia Trade, 1734-1764, Susan Ilene Gibbons
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Shipping Between England And Virginia 1606-1630, Susan Elizabeth Hillier
Shipping Between England And Virginia 1606-1630, Susan Elizabeth Hillier
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
To Save An Empire: The Earl Of Dartmouth As American Secretary 1773-1775, Nancy Briska Anderson
To Save An Empire: The Earl Of Dartmouth As American Secretary 1773-1775, Nancy Briska Anderson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The American Image Of Mussolini: Public Opinion And The Press In Italian-American Relations, 1922-1930, Laylon Wayne Jordan
The American Image Of Mussolini: Public Opinion And The Press In Italian-American Relations, 1922-1930, Laylon Wayne Jordan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Olive Branch Petition To The King, 1775, Lorna Gayle Cooper
The Olive Branch Petition To The King, 1775, Lorna Gayle Cooper
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Origins Of The British Expedition To The Carolinas, 1775-1776, William Leo Moran
The Origins Of The British Expedition To The Carolinas, 1775-1776, William Leo Moran
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.