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Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions Of Marriage In America, 1750-1860, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
Uniting Interests: The Economic Functions Of Marriage In America, 1750-1860, Lindsay Mitchell Keiter
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation, "Uniting Interests: Money, Property, and Marriage in America, 1750-1860," examines how marriage was an essential economic transaction that responded to the development of capitalism in early America. Drawing on scholarship on the history of economic development, household organization, law, and gender, I argue that families actively distributed resources at marriage as part of larger wealth management strategies that were sensitive to regional and national economic growth. I focus particularly on women's property holding and how families deployed the legal protection of women's property as bulwarks against financial disaster. This project restores the family and women to the narrative …
Relationships, Credit, And Value: Analyzing Money As A Social Institution In Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Relationships, Credit, And Value: Analyzing Money As A Social Institution In Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Amanda White Gibson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Dynamic Social Networks With Beneficial And Detrimental Interactions, Shadrack Adu Antwi
Dynamic Social Networks With Beneficial And Detrimental Interactions, Shadrack Adu Antwi
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The complex social relationships in society can be understood as a network. In recent years, complex networks have given researchers a more accurate picture of social interactions than aggregation models such as compartmental models had hitherto provided. Compartmental models which collect individuals into population classes based on infection state, for instance, had left out local interactions that could be important for understanding social relationships and attendant phenomena such as epidemics, rumors, etc., in the society. Topics of modeling for complex networks have included the dynamics of social relationships and how they affect disease and opinion spread. Different types of relationships, …
Surface Polishing Of Niobium For Superconducting Radio Frequency (Srf) Cavity Application, Liang Zhao
Surface Polishing Of Niobium For Superconducting Radio Frequency (Srf) Cavity Application, Liang Zhao
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Niobium cavities are important components in modern particle accelerators based on superconducting radio frequency (SRF) technology. The interior of SRF cavities are cleaned and polished in order to produce high accelerating field and low power dissipation on the cavity wall. Current polishing methods, buffered chemical polishing (BCP) and electropolishing (EP), have their advantages and limitations. We seek to improve current methods and explore laser polishing (LP) as a greener alternative of chemical methods. The topography and removal rate of BCP at different conditions (duration, temperature, sample orientation, flow rate) was studied with optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and electron …
Exhorting Or Extorting?: George Whitefield's Financial Controversies, Kristen Elizabeth Beales
Exhorting Or Extorting?: George Whitefield's Financial Controversies, Kristen Elizabeth Beales
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Nottoway Of Virginia: A Study Of Peoplehood And Political Economy, C.1775-1875, Buck Woodard
The Nottoway Of Virginia: A Study Of Peoplehood And Political Economy, C.1775-1875, Buck Woodard
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This research examines the social construction of a Virginia Indian reservation community during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Between 1824 and 1877 the Iroquoian-speaking Nottoway divided their reservation lands into individual partible allotments and developed family farm ventures that mirrored their landholding White neighbors. In Southampton's slave-based society, labor relationships with White landowners and "Free People of Color" impacted Nottoway exogamy and shaped community notions of peoplehood. Through property ownership and a variety of labor practices, Nottoway's kin-based farms produced agricultural crops, orchard goods and hogs for export and sale in an emerging agro-industrial economy. However, shifts in Nottoway …
"Here Stands A High Bred Horse": A Theory Of Economics And Horse Breeding In Colonial Virginia, 1750-1780; A Statistical Model, Lily Kleppertknoop
"Here Stands A High Bred Horse": A Theory Of Economics And Horse Breeding In Colonial Virginia, 1750-1780; A Statistical Model, Lily Kleppertknoop
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Accounting For Undesirable Outputs In Productivity Measurements: Application To The California-Oregon Drift Gillnet Fishery, Tara L. Scott
Accounting For Undesirable Outputs In Productivity Measurements: Application To The California-Oregon Drift Gillnet Fishery, Tara L. Scott
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Many production activities typically produce undesirable outputs, e.g., the production of the pollutant sulfur dioxide in the generation of electricity. Traditional economic metrics may overstate the efficiency and productivity of these production activities by failing to account for the undesirable outputs. These omissions can lead to conclusions that are biased against resource conservation and protection. Many fisheries capture their target species concomitantly with undesirable outputs such as bycatch of juvenile fish, marine mammals, sea birds, and sea turtles. One such fishery is the California-Oregon (CA/OR) drift gillnet fishery (DGNF), which incidentally takes protected species, such as sea turtles and marine …
"To Learn The Trade Of A Potter": Apprenticeship, Emulation, And Deviance In The Wachovian Tradition, Jessica Lauren Taylor
"To Learn The Trade Of A Potter": Apprenticeship, Emulation, And Deviance In The Wachovian Tradition, Jessica Lauren Taylor
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Plastic Capital: Wilmington, Delaware And The Deregulation Of Consumer Credit, Carolee Anne Klimchock
Plastic Capital: Wilmington, Delaware And The Deregulation Of Consumer Credit, Carolee Anne Klimchock
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Breaking The Mold: Sugar Ceramics And The Political Economy Of 18th Century St Eustatius, Derek Robert Miller
Breaking The Mold: Sugar Ceramics And The Political Economy Of 18th Century St Eustatius, Derek Robert Miller
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Pay For Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions Of Freedpeople And The Archaeology Of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Pay For Labor: Socioeconomic Transitions Of Freedpeople And The Archaeology Of African American Life, 1863-1930, Shannon Sheila Mahoney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, And Capital Mobility In The Massachusetts Textile Industry, 1880-1934, Beth Anne English
A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, And Capital Mobility In The Massachusetts Textile Industry, 1880-1934, Beth Anne English
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
"A Common Thread" is an analysis of the relocation of the New England textile industry to the states of the Piedmont South between 1880 and 1934. Competition from textile mills operating in the South became a serious challenge for New England textile manufacturers as early as the 1890s. as they watched their profits turn into losses while output and sales of southern goods continued apace during the 1893 depression, owners of northern textile corporations felt unfairly constrained by state legislation that established age and hours standards for mill employees, and by actual and potential labor militancy in their mills. Several …
The Measure Of Independence: From The American Revolution To The Market Revolution In The Mid -Atlantic, Richard Smith Chew
The Measure Of Independence: From The American Revolution To The Market Revolution In The Mid -Atlantic, Richard Smith Chew
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study explores the social and economic changes in the mid-Atlantic region generally, and Baltimore City and its hinterlands specifically, between the late colonial period and the dawn of the Jacksonian era. Baltimore foundered as a colonial entrepot until wheat emerged as an important export commodity in the 1740s. Between the mid-1740s and the 1770s, the town grew steadily within the British mercantilist world. its trade was deeply dependent on Atlantic commerce, its social structure reflected the mercantile orientation of the town and the staunchly deferential colonial household economy. The Revolution threatened to overturn this world with the promise of …
Interorganizational Town-Gown Relationships And Property Taxes: A Case Study, Cynthia Felix Burns
Interorganizational Town-Gown Relationships And Property Taxes: A Case Study, Cynthia Felix Burns
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examined the relationship between a college and its local government organizations in a community that engaged in property tax or voluntary contribution deliberations with nonprofit organizations to determine the extent to which these interactions altered the preceding town-gown relationship. Interorganizational relationship theory and social interaction theory provided a theoretical framework for data collection while cooperative interorganizational relationship (CIOR) theory was utilized in describing the findings.;A qualitative, single, embedded, descriptive case study was employed to investigate the town-gown relationship between Mercyhurst College and the City, County and Public School District of Erie, Pennsylvania to determine if and how the …
A Study Of Transition In Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799, Anna Catherine Borden Anderson
A Study Of Transition In Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799, Anna Catherine Borden Anderson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Carried On At A Very Great Expense And Never Produced Any Profit": The Albemarle Iron Works (1770-72), James Harvey Brothers
"Carried On At A Very Great Expense And Never Produced Any Profit": The Albemarle Iron Works (1770-72), James Harvey Brothers
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Long-Term Debt In College And University Institutional Finance, James Alan Shultz
Long-Term Debt In College And University Institutional Finance, James Alan Shultz
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A World Of Goods: The Printer's Economy In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson
A World Of Goods: The Printer's Economy In Eighteenth-Century Virginia, Kari S. Richardson
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.
Three Generations Of Planter -Businessmen: The Tayloes, Slave Labor, And Entrepreneurialism In Virginia, 1710-1830, Laura Croghan Kamoie
Three Generations Of Planter -Businessmen: The Tayloes, Slave Labor, And Entrepreneurialism In Virginia, 1710-1830, Laura Croghan Kamoie
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study analyzes the entrepreneurial estate-building activities of three generations of the Tayloe family of Virginia from the 1710s to the 1820s. The three John Tayloes were model planter-businessmen---that is, they combined mixed commercial agriculture with a variety of business enterprises in an effort to secure long-term financial security and social status for themselves and their heirs. This diversified approach to plantation management characterized early Virginia's "culture of progress"---an early American business culture interpreted in many different ways throughout the colonies (and later the states) that had the pursuit of a better life as its organizing premise.;The Tayloes were not …
"In The Eye Of All Trade": Maritime Revolution And The Transformation Of Bermudian Society, 1612-1800, Michael J. Jarvis
"In The Eye Of All Trade": Maritime Revolution And The Transformation Of Bermudian Society, 1612-1800, Michael J. Jarvis
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examines the settlement of the British colony of Bermuda in 1612 and its development to 1800. Drawing heavily on primary sources, it is the first social and economic history of the island and an exploration of trade and migration within a pan-colonial network. The purpose of this dissertation is to bring Bermuda's history to the attention of colonial historians and to map connections between Europe's colonies within the Atlantic world.;Part I examines Bermuda's initial settlement and its development under the Somers Island Company. The first English colony to successfully cultivate tobacco and to import slave labor, Bermudian society …
The Agroecologies Of A Southern Community: The Tye River Valley Of Virginia, 1730-1860, Lynn A. Nelson
The Agroecologies Of A Southern Community: The Tye River Valley Of Virginia, 1730-1860, Lynn A. Nelson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The farmers of piedmont Virginia's Tye River Valley adapted agriculture to a commercial frontier during the eighteenth century. This 'frontier agroecosystem' optimized labor returns by exploiting the stored fertility of mature ecosystems at the expense of conservation, but proved vulnerable to population growth and soil exhaustion. Out-migration increased after the Revolution, and economic growth was stymied by limited capital and consumer formation. The frontier agroecosystem could not provide the reliable commercial returns needed to promote development or stable neighborhoods.;During the early 1800s, prominent planters demanded that Virginia farming be intensified---that land productivity be maximized, rather than labor productivity. This strategy, …
New Kent County, Virginia Bets On Gambling: Government Program Or Business Strategy?, Alexandra Elaine Sasser Hall
New Kent County, Virginia Bets On Gambling: Government Program Or Business Strategy?, Alexandra Elaine Sasser Hall
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Labor At Home: The Domestic World Of Workers At The Du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney
Labor At Home: The Domestic World Of Workers At The Du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902, Margaret M. Mulrooney
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
While the history of the du Pont family and Du Pont Company have been well-documented, little is known about the everyday lives of the Irish Catholic immigrants who lived and worked at the home plant near Wilmington, Delaware. to correct this oversight, "Labor at Home" explores every aspect of the powder workers' domestic world--from religious beliefs, family structure, gender relations, and ethnic ties, to houses, furnishings, and yards--and uses this data to support new conclusions about cultural identity and class affiliation. as early as the 1820s, for example, powder mill families began to convey their increasing affiliation with bourgeois American …
The Price Of Empire: Anglo-French Rivalry For The Great Lakes Fur Trades, 1700-1760, Matthew R. Laird
The Price Of Empire: Anglo-French Rivalry For The Great Lakes Fur Trades, 1700-1760, Matthew R. Laird
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
As the English and French grappled for North American hegemony in the first half of the eighteenth century, trade with the Indian groups of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley transcended mere financial calculations and assumed a broader imperial significance. to the native peoples who exchanged their peltry for European manufactured goods, trade was the material manifestation of mutual obligation, political dialogue, and military alliance. If the contest for empire inevitably became a battle for the hearts and minds of potential Indian allies, the spoils of victory were most visibly reckoned in furs and skins.;Yet, despite the outspoken criticism of …
Virginia Embargoed: The Economic And Political Effects Of The 1807-1809 Embargo On Virginia, John George Kinzie
Virginia Embargoed: The Economic And Political Effects Of The 1807-1809 Embargo On Virginia, John George Kinzie
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
R C Scott: A History Of African-American Entrepreneurship In Richmond, 1890-1940, Michael A. Plater
R C Scott: A History Of African-American Entrepreneurship In Richmond, 1890-1940, Michael A. Plater
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study examines the socioeconomic aspects of ethnicity as a way to understand African-American entrepreneurship in the early twentieth century. In an attempt to separate the influence of ethnicity from the social and environmental elements that restrained many African-American entrepreneurs, the study focuses on the African-American funeral industry. The funeral industry provides a rare example of an industry that successfully operated on a voluntarily segregated basis. Sheltered from discrimination and racism, African-American funeral directors not only survived and surpassed their white counterparts, but also organized a national fraternity of economic and political elite who wielded significant power in the United …
Market Interactions And Competition Between Public And Private Oyster Production And Supplies From Other States, Ya-Ke Hsu
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Oyster production in Virginia has declined dramatically in the past ten years, causing Virginia oyster processors to rely increasingly on oyster supplies from other regions. In response to the industry problems, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) developed and began implementing an Oyster Fishery Management Plan (OFMP) in 1985. Primarily, the plan seeks to increase Virginia oyster production from both public and leased grounds. A large increase in production could significantly affect the oyster market. There is thus a need to understand the Virginia oyster market, which derives raw material supplies primarily from public and leased-grounds production and from other …
To Separate The Tares From The Corn: Debts And Slaves In Post-Revolutionary Virginia, Philip George Swan
To Separate The Tares From The Corn: Debts And Slaves In Post-Revolutionary Virginia, Philip George Swan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.