Book Review: Three Weeks In November: A Military History Of The Swiss Civil War Of 1847,
2014
Georgia Military College - Valdosta
Book Review: Three Weeks In November: A Military History Of The Swiss Civil War Of 1847, Kevin Cronin
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Full Issue,
2014
Brigham Young University
Fritz Zwicky And The Search For Dark Matter,
2014
Brigham Young University
Fritz Zwicky And The Search For Dark Matter, Kurt Winkler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The study of astronomy greatly accelerated in the twentieth century. Aided by many advances in technology that improved observations, there has been an explosion of information about the cosmos, and scientists have had to review and overturn many long-held beliefs and assumptions about the universe. Among the most perplexing and enduring questions has been the nature of a mysterious substance known as dark matter.
Legal Tools Instead Of Weapons: Jewish Resistance To The State Takeover Of Urban Real Estate And Businesses During The Antonescu Regime,
2014
Chapman University
Legal Tools Instead Of Weapons: Jewish Resistance To The State Takeover Of Urban Real Estate And Businesses During The Antonescu Regime, Stefan Cristian Ionescu
History Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"I will investigate the different forms of Jewish resistance to the Antonescu regime, focusing on the use of legalities to bypass the process of Romanianization or Aryanization or state takeover of businesses and urban real estate, a process that aimed to exclude Jews from the local economy and, ultimately, from society.1 The use of legal tools, mainly sabotage and judicial contestation by tens of thousands of Romanian Jews, was resistance to the Holocaust at its best.2 If the seizure of Jewish properties, businesses, and jobs, as envisioned by Romanianization’s social architects, had succeeded, it would have meant starvation, …
Irish And German Immigrants Of The Nineteenth Century: Hardships, Improvements, And Success,
2014
Honors College, Pace University
Irish And German Immigrants Of The Nineteenth Century: Hardships, Improvements, And Success, Amanda A. Tagore
Honors College Theses
This paper examines the economic and social reasons that are attributed to the high emigration rate in Ireland and in Germany during the nineteenth century, and how the lives of these groups turned out in the United States. As a result of economic deterioration and social inequality, pessimism became prevalent in Ireland from the 1840s onward and in Germany from the 1830s onward. Because the United States was perceived as an optimistic avenue for advancement, thousands of Irish and Germans emigrated their homelands and fled to America in search of a better life. During the first few decades upon their …
The Monastery Of Saint-Michel Du Tréport And The Borderlands Of Northeast Normandy, 1059-1270,
2014
Western Michigan University
The Monastery Of Saint-Michel Du Tréport And The Borderlands Of Northeast Normandy, 1059-1270, Eric Callender
Masters Theses
This thesis examines the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Michel du Tréport, situated in the county of Eu in Normandy’s northeast corner, from its foundation in 1059 until the death of Louis IX of France in 1270. Utilizing as its main source base the charters in the Cartulaire de L’abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport of P. Laffleur de Kermaingant, this project seeks to situate the monks of Saint-Michel du Tréport within their ecclesiastical context, to understand the monastery’s lay patronage, and to examine the secular and ecclesiastical borders of northeast Normandy and the lands surrounding them, particularly the relationship of the Norman …
The Social And Cultural Meanings Of Names In Late Antique Italy, 313-604,
2014
Western Michigan University
The Social And Cultural Meanings Of Names In Late Antique Italy, 313-604, Eric Ware
Masters Theses
This thesis examines many uses of names in Italian culture and society between the years 313 and 604. Through an anthroponymic study of names in Late Antique Italy, I explore the relationships between names and religion, social groups, gender, and language. I analyze the name patterns statistically and through micro-historical studies. This thesis argues that, contrary to studies emphasizing the late antique decline of the Roman trinominal system, Italian names demonstrated continuity with classical onomastic practices. The correlations between saint’s cults and local names and the decline of pagan names suggests that saints’ names replaced pagan ones as apotropaic names …
Front Matter,
2014
Brigham Young University
The Use Of The Terms Piemontese, Waldenses, And Exiles In The Bernese Council Manuals Of The 17th Century,
2014
Brigham Young University
The Use Of The Terms Piemontese, Waldenses, And Exiles In The Bernese Council Manuals Of The 17th Century, Paul Hostettler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
This essay explores the use of the terms "Piemontese," "Waldenses,"and "Exiles" in the Council Manuals of the Bernese government between 1600 and 1700, in order to determine whether these terms are used synonymously and possibly instead mean Waldenses.
Book Review: Mercenaries In Medieval And Renaissance Europe,
2014
Catholic University of America
Book Review: Mercenaries In Medieval And Renaissance Europe, William John Shepherd
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Eleanor Hubbard, City Women: Money, Sex, And The Social Order In Early Modern London,
2014
Singapore Management University
Eleanor Hubbard, City Women: Money, Sex, And The Social Order In Early Modern London, Fiona Williamson
Research Collection College of Integrative Studies
This highly readable monograph by Eleanor Hubbard is a first-rate addition to a historiography that has sought to understand how the rigid gender ideals evidenced in early modern prescriptive literature affected ordinary people by investigating consistory court depositions, building on a line of investigation popularized by Martin Ingram and Susan Amussen. Hubbard’s thoroughly researched and richly detailed attempt at recreating the lives of London’s female inhabitants is largely, though not exclusively, based on London’s church court deposition books from 1570 to 1640 that also provided inspiration for Laura Gowing in Domestic Dangers (1998).
Comparing Hitler And Stalin: Certain Cultural Considerations,
2014
CUNY Graduate Center
Comparing Hitler And Stalin: Certain Cultural Considerations, Phillip W. Weiss
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
There is a great temptation to compare the Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. This is true for two reasons: first, the careers of both men converged at the same point in history, thus doubling the impact both made and second, because the names Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin have become metaphors for ideologies and crimes that today are reviled. The question then arises: who was worse, Hitler or Stalin? This project shows that there is no viable, credible, definitive, or final answer to this question, and that prevailing attitudes about Hitler and Stalin have become so ingrained in contemporary society …
Strange Bedfellows : The Rise Of The Military Religious Orders In The Twelfth Century,
2014
Gettysburg College
Strange Bedfellows : The Rise Of The Military Religious Orders In The Twelfth Century, Sarah E. Hayes
The Gettysburg Historical Journal
Most people would not describe Christian monks as militaristic. However, there are instances in history when Christians have strayed from their basic pacifist beliefs in the name of defending their religion. The most famous example of this would be the Military Orders of the medieval Crusades, when full scale war was encouraged by the Catholic Church in order to protect the Holy Land. These militant monks formed a new breed of religious organization where brothers were soldiers willing die defending Christianity against the infidel. Although the Order of the Temple, or the Templars, was the most infamous of the Orders, …
Apple Of Discord: The "Hungarian Factor" In Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881,
2014
Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton
Apple Of Discord: The "Hungarian Factor" In Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881, Ian D. Armour
Central European Studies
When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian influence on the Habsburg Monarchy's policy toward Serbia after the 1867 Ausgleich, and it argues that this early period was critical in shaping policy after 1871, down to the imposition on Serbia in 1881 of a system of economic and political control.The Ausgleich, the Austro-Hungarian compromise that reconstituted the Empire as …
Center Stage: Operatic Culture And Nation Building In Nineteenth-Century Central Europe,
2014
University of Vienna
Center Stage: Operatic Culture And Nation Building In Nineteenth-Century Central Europe, Philipp Ther
Central European Studies
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon …
New World Propaganda: Pigafetta's Journal, World Maps, And New European Ideologies, 1525-1556,
2014
Bowling Green State University
New World Propaganda: Pigafetta's Journal, World Maps, And New European Ideologies, 1525-1556, Megan Sympson
HIST 4800 Early America in the Atlantic World (Herndon)
Once Europeans discovered the New World, cartographers of the time began to map the Americas based on either their own experiences or accounts of others who visited the new land. These maps did not simply serve as navigational tools, but also were used as decorative objects containing elements of propaganda intended to shape opinions of the New World in the Old. In this paper, I examine Antonio Pigafetta’s journal, documenting the voyage of Magellen in 1519-22, and the world maps created after his journal was published. Six world maps by Diogo Ribeiro, Jean Rotz, Guillaume Brouscon, Sebastian Cabot, Pierre Desceliers, …
An Inquiry Into The Harshness Of German Colonialism In Kaiser-Wilhelmsland,
2014
Longwood University
An Inquiry Into The Harshness Of German Colonialism In Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Jessica Rohr
Theses & Honors Papers
This thesis investigates German colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It discusses the pressure and competition Germany experienced as neighboring countries also aggressively expanded and as Europe underwent massive and rapid industrial growth. It also analyzes the harshness Germany employed in colonizing foreign lands and the reasons for such measures, such as perceived racial and social superiority and economic need.
The Thirty Years' War: Examining The Origins And Effects Of Corpus Christianum's Defining Conflict,
2014
George Fox University
The Thirty Years' War: Examining The Origins And Effects Of Corpus Christianum's Defining Conflict, Justin Mcmurdie
Seminary Masters Theses
The following thesis is an examination of the Thirty Years’ War. This conflict, from 1618-1648 in the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation,” was the culminating conflict of the Reformation era and set the stage for the modern world. Much scholarly debate in recent years has centered on whether or not the Thirty Years’ War was a “religious” conflict. A great deal of recent work has tended to minimize or discount the religious element of the conflict. This current thesis attempts to engage this debate and to argue that the war’s origins did indeed lie in religious concerns. This …
Chivalric Schism : The Man Who Occupies The Masculine And The Feminine 2014,
2014
SUNY College Cortland
Chivalric Schism : The Man Who Occupies The Masculine And The Feminine 2014, Timothy C. Morris
Master's Theses
Designated male and female gender roles have created a certain set of expectations that shape the lives of men and women. Although there are benefits and drawbacks for each of the sexes as a result of these sets of rules, males have unquestionably seen themselves the beneficiaries throughout the course of history far more often than their female counterparts. I would argue, however, that chivalric codes, behaviors ascribed to men of the knightly class in the Middle Ages, are confusing and even contradictory for their subjects, thus negating some of the advantage typically granted by virtue of being a male. …
The Broad, Toiling Masses In All The Continents: Anticolonial Activists And The Atlantic Charter,
2014
Western Kentucky University
The Broad, Toiling Masses In All The Continents: Anticolonial Activists And The Atlantic Charter, Mark Reeves
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The 1941 Atlantic Charter’s references to self-determination galvanized anticolonial nationalists during the Second World War. These activists used the principles enumerated in the Atlantic Charter to frame their demands. This thesis examines three cases in the broader global context during the war, from vastly different colonial and wartime situations: British-ruled India, French-ruled Syria, and the U.S.- ruled Philippines. Across these different situations, anticolonial nationalists used the Atlantic Charter in an attempt to legitimate their own projects. This thesis shows that the elite nationalist movements examined here used a common rhetoric from the Charter, but in variable ways. Each case study …
