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The Atlantic Conference At Argentia (9-12 August 1941) The Anglo-American Agreement On The Defeat Of Nazi Germany, John Michael Sweeney May 1994

The Atlantic Conference At Argentia (9-12 August 1941) The Anglo-American Agreement On The Defeat Of Nazi Germany, John Michael Sweeney

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

The meeting at Argentina, Newfoundland, between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1941 was the first "summit" conference of the Second World War. It set the stage for the United States' entry into the war on the side of Great Britain and produced the Atlantic Charter, the noble statement of Western war aims. This study describes how the Nazi threat to England and the Atlantic brought the two democracies together into a de facto alliance before the United States formally entered the war. Its central theme is the "strategy of provocation" whereby President Roosevelt, certain …


From Italy To Boston's North End: Italian Immigration And Settlement, 1890-1910, Stephen Puleo May 1994

From Italy To Boston's North End: Italian Immigration And Settlement, 1890-1910, Stephen Puleo

Graduate Masters Theses

More than four million Italian immigrants entered the United States between 1880 and 1920, a number greater than any other ethnic group during America's peak immigration years. From 1900 to 1910 alone, more than two million Italians flowed through American ports. This thesis examines the great Italian migration to and settlement in the United States, focusing on one of America's strongest and most vibrant ethnic communities, Boston’s Italian North End.

The vast majority of Italian immigrants were peasants from agrarian Southern Italy, seeking refuge in America from nearly unbearable conditions in their homeland. They were mostly young, usually poor and …


Justification: How The Elizabethans Explained Their Invasions Of Ireland And Virginia, Christopher Ludden Mcdaid Jan 1994

Justification: How The Elizabethans Explained Their Invasions Of Ireland And Virginia, Christopher Ludden Mcdaid

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Goemaere, Mary Of The Cross, M. Patricia Dougherty Jan 1994

Goemaere, Mary Of The Cross, M. Patricia Dougherty

Faculty Authored Books and Book Contributions

Catherine Adelaide Goemaere, born to artisan parents (cooper and "tricoteuse") on 20 March 1809, in Warneton, a small Belgian town on the modern French-Belgian border, was the foundress of the first group of women religious in the newly created state of California.

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