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Middle Eastern Themes In Contemporary American Fantasy: The Political And Socio-Religious Implications, Sait Ibisi

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

What follows is a Master’s Thesis in which an insight is given into four Middle East-inspired contemporary American fantasy novels: The Desert of Souls (2011) by Howard Andrew Jones, Throne of the Crescent Moon (2012) by Saladin Ahmed, The City of Brass (2017) by S. A. Chakraborty, and Alif the Unseen (2012) by G. Willow Wilson. In the first part of the thesis I disclose the political implications which the mentioned novels carry. These are inspired by the past and contemporary political developments in the Middle East, and are meant to both criticize the said, but more importantly, to depict …

Frontier Capitalism And Unfree Labor In Middle Appalachia: The Development Of Western Pennsylvania And Maryland, 1760-1840, Nathaniel Conley

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Slavery and unfree labor have been a subject of growing interest for historians, particularly when dealing with frontier areas and the rise of capitalism. Recent studies have shown that slavery and unfree labor existed well into the antebellum period in the North despite the lack of legal support for the institution. Few historians have identified the importance of slavery in the development of western areas, however, particularly in the Appalachian regions of western Pennsylvania and Maryland. As a result, concerted study of slavery in rural, western areas is lacking, particularly in the borderland region between slavery and freedom along the …

Jane's Underwater Warfare Systems, 1993-1994, Richard Cross Iii, Anthony J. Watts

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Law Of Naval Warfare: Targeting Enemy Merchant Shipping, J. L. Holloway Iii, Richard J. Grunawalt

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Salvage Support And Operational Commanders: What They Need But May Not Get, Kemp L. Skudin

Naval War College Review

Changes in both technology and the world political situation have increased the importance of salvage as a consideration at the operational level of maritime warfare. Its importance was easy to underemphasize when planning for the fast-moving, global, open-ocean conflict that was envisioned until the demise of the Soviet Union.

Multiculturalism And The Bill Of Rights, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Maine Law Review

The Second Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service was held on October 7, 1993. Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. presented "Multiculturalism and the Bill of Rights."

Aesthetic Autopsy. Collective Memory And Trauma In Contemporary Art From Angola, Nadine Siegert

Artl@s Bulletin

Angolan history is mainly a history of wars. After the long anti-colonial fight (1961 – 1974) that ended with the independence of the country in 1975, a civil war between the former independence movements started. In the 1980s, Angola was the venue for a proxy war between the Socialist bloc and Western countries, supporting the different protagonists fighting on Angolan territory. After the crumbling of cold war ideologies in 1989, the war continued as a struggle for political hegemony and access to natural resources until 2002, devastating lands, economy and social structures. These historical events might have led to trauma …

Stem (Voice): The Panvocalism Of White Male Bodies And Masculinities In The South African Defense Force, 1957-1990, Keegan Medrano

Madison Historical Review

The South African Defense Force (SADF) created in 1957 represented another attempt by the National Party government in South Africa to assert the supremacy of Afrikaner culture. The SADF, however, offered not only a concentrated location to condition and reinforce narratives of white supremacist and apartheid ideology, but importantly, existed as a space for white men to participate in, which could unite their developing masculinities infused with militaristically mobilized white supremacist ideologies. The SADF became a cauldron of venerated white masculinities that offered conscripts the opportunity to exercise their body, representing white and the white nation’s vitality and virility, and …

Classical Literature And The Retroaction Of Socialist Ideology—The Sovietization Of A Medieval Georgian Epic Poem And Its Mysterious Author, Diego Benning Wang

Madison Historical Review

Shota Rustaveli, presumed author of the medieval Georgian epic poem vepkhistqaosani (The Knight in the Panther's Skin), was one of the most celebrated cultural and historical figures in Soviet Georgia. However, not much is known about Rustaveli apart from his work. In this essay, I argue that a series of policies under the Soviet government transformed Rustaveli into a national symbol of Georgia, but the celebration of Rustaveli and his poem scarcely deviated from the ideological guidelines of the Soviet state. In discussing the impact and legacy of the Soviet promotion of Rustaveli, I purport to highlight the "national in …

Crossing No Man’S Land: Bridging The Gender Gap Of World War I Through The Works Of Vera Brittain, Danielle R. Dybbro

Madison Historical Review

Vera Brittain wrote in both her memoir and in a letter to her fiancé that, “women get all the dreariness of war and none of its exhilaration.” She was just beginning her life as a student at Oxford when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the summer of 1914, and at the time “the war at first seemed” to be “an infuriating personal interruption rather than [the] worldwide catastrophe” that it would eventually become. Brittain soon interrupted her studies at Oxford by becoming a nurse and eventually became a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment for the duration of the …

The Art Of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory And Air-Land Battle, Gary Anderson, Robert R. Leonhard

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Thunder Below: The Uss Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare In World War Ii, Jacob V. Heimark

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Points Of Conflict: Understanding War, By W.B. Gallie, And The Framework Of Operational Warfare, Harold R. Winton

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

"A Dazzling Vision Of Antiseptic Warfare", Robert C. Rubel

Naval War College Review

The Chief of Air Force history, Dr. Richard P. Hallion, has written a book about Operation Desert Shield-Desert Storm that embodies the thesis that "simply (if boldly) stated, air power won the Gulf War." He argues that advances in technology have enabled air power to fulfill the promise of a former generation of visionaries; that air power can win wars by itself. Dr. Hallion conducts an analysis of the Gulf War to marshall evidence for his view.

Confronting Technological And Tactical Change: Allied Antisubmarine Warfare In The Last Year Of The Battle Of The Atlantic, Douglas M. Mclean

Naval War College Review

The recall of German U-Boat Wolfpacks from the central North Atlantic at the end of May 1943 ended the most costly phase of the shipping war for the Allies. Never again would the U-boats inflict dangerously high shipping losses. The naval war remained bitter, however, for the U-boats refused to give up, turning instead to new technology and new tactics. Right to the end of the war, they continued to present a plausible threat, one that caused concern in high Allied circles.

Stealth Technology In Surface Warships, John W. Mcgillvray Jr.

Naval War College Review

Following the attack upon the USS Stark (FFG 31) by Iraqi Exocet missiles in May 1987, the U.S. Navy greatly accelerated its efforts to improve anti-ship missile defenses. Much emphasis was placed on improvements to point-defense missile and close-in weapon systems that could destroy the anti-ship missiles themselves ("hard kill"), on improvements to the performance of the Standard surface-to-air missile warhead and fuse against sea-skimming cruise missiles (another "hard kill" system), and on improvements to the integration of electronic warfare detection and other "soft kill" systems aboard ship and in embarked helicopters

How Wolves Turned Into Dogs And How Dogs Are Valuable In Meeting Human Social Needs, Kurt Kotrschal

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

A wealth of recent behavioral, neurobiological, and genetic results allows us to draw a new, comprehensive picture of the human-wolf- dog relationship. Dogs originated from wolves 35,000 years ago, mainly via selection for tameness. Wolves were probably spiritual partners and hunting buddies of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers over wide areas of Eurasia. Coming together and staying together was probably facilitated by the close ecological and social match between wolves and humans. Both are cursorial hunters and scavengers living in cooperative but relatively closed family groups, which selected for very similar mentalities.

Parallel selection for tameness (i.e., being “nice”) in dogs and humans …

The Family History Of Daniel C. Hodges, Dan Hodges

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

The Family History of Daniel C. Hodges 21 April 2018

Daniel Clayton Hodges authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2018 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

“Cry ‘Havoc!’ And Let Slip The Dogs Of War!”: The Canine Experience In The A.E.F., Amanda Larsh

Voces Novae

This paper explores the canine experience in the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) in an attempt to understand the roles these dogs performed, the effects they had on the humans they worked alongside, and how their affection was returned to their humans.

“A Singing Army Is A Fighting Army”: American Soldiers’ Songs And The Training Camp Experience In World War I, Maci Reed

Voces Novae

This paper analyzes the impact of the camp music program on American participants in World War I. First, it describes the formation and purpose of the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA). This was a commission developed within the War Department in 1917 that was tasked with raising and maintaining troop morale by organizing constructive recreational activities, such as the music division. Second, this paper explores the soldiers’ experiences with song and how they accepted the practice of singing and used it as a form of expression. This paper argues that the CTCA effectively utilized singing to increase unit cohesion …

"You Folks At Home Can Say 'War Is Hell'": The Great War Experience Of A.E.F. Soldier Edward Marcellus, Taylor Dipoto

Voces Novae

The Great War is remembered as a bloody and horrific war that disillusioned an entire generation. While this may have been an accurate depiction of the European war experience, the unique circumstances American soldiers found themselves in gave them a wholly different experience of the war. The most significant difference was the large number of Americans who never saw any sort of combat. An analysis of the letters of Edward Marcellus, a completely ordinary A.E.F. soldier, demonstrate the significant lack of change in the mind frame of American noncombatant soldiers during the Great War, and call attention to the problems …

Policing Privilege And Disciplining Bodies: Victoria C. Woodhull, Anthony Comstock, And The Platform For Social Engineering, Elisa Perez-Selsky

Voces Novae

Anthony Comstock and Victoria C. Woodhull were both important ideological figures in the tumultuous time of the Gilded Age. Infamous for her campaign for the presidency of the United States in 1872, Woodhull is often lauded as one of the earliest and most radical feminists. Comstock, on the other hand, would build his legacy out of his devotion to strict Victorian ideals, enacting countless censorship laws to impede the flow of obscene materials. While Comstock and Woodhull could not seem more polar in their political and social beliefs, this paper explores an important ideological similarity that they shared. This similarity …

The Reaction To The Dred Scott Decision, Alix Oswald

Voces Novae

The 1850s were a period marred by an intensifying sectional crisis between the North and South. One of the maincauses of this sectional tension was slavery, as northerners and southerners had diametrically opposed views on the subject. In 1856, the United States Supreme Court heard the case of Scott v. Sandford, which was a lawsuit in which a Missouri slave, Dred Scott, sued his master, John Sanford, for his freedom.For many Americans, the outcome of this case was incredibly important because theybelieved that itwould settle the slavery question once and for all, making slavery either legal or illegal throughout the …

"To Associate Ourselves With The Men Of Ulster:" A Gendered History Of Ulster's Solemn League And Covenant And The Ulster Women's Declaration, 1910-1920, Turner Jacobs

Voces Novae

This paper explores the gendered constitution of Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant and the Ulster Women's Declaration, two documents that were instrumental in the Ulster unionist campaign against Irish Home Rule. Composed and circulated in 1912, these documents elucidated the Unionist platform while exposing the differences in gender roles inherent in Ulster's political and social spheres. Additionally, the two documents provided the basis for a Unionist militia that included both men and women, albeit in distinctive capacities. By examining the Covenant and Declaration, a more comprehensive understanding of the anti-Home Rule campaign can be fully realized.

Hard Times In The Big Easy: The Medical, Social, And Political Effects Of The Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1853 In New Orleans, Molly Iker

Voces Novae

From May to October 1853, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, battled a terrifying epidemic of yellow fever. This paper examines the spread of the disease, the death toll as the epidemic continued, and the political, medical, and social effects of this particular epidemic. Several thousand individuals succumbed to yellow fever between May 28 and October 8, 1853, and over 8,000 of these died. The medical, political, and social views on yellow fever varied by region, but all held that it was a mysterious and terrifying disease that carried off an excessive number of individuals. The 1853 yellow fever epidemic …

Shaken, Not Stirred: Markus Wolf’S Involvement In The Guillaume Affair And The Evolution Of Foreign Espionage In The Former Ddr, Jason Hiller

Voces Novae

This paper aims to show the inner workings of one of the most prolific foreign espionage agencies of the Cold War. From 1953 to 1990, the German Democratic Republic sat on the front lines of modern espionage. East Germany separated the Soviet Union from the West. The man in charge of maintaining order was Markus Wolf. His most impactful agent was Günter Guillaume who was in the office of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. These men played an integral part in the politics between East and West that strained relations between the two sides of Germany. They left a lasting …

"Firepower Kills": The Evolution Of French Infantry Tactics At Verdun, James Chrislip

Voces Novae

This paper explores the considerable military and technological developments which took place within the French army during the opening stages of this engagement at the regimental level. The research suggests that these developments were a part of the global evolution of infantry tactics in general. Using the 153e Régiment d’Infanterie as a case study, the author will display how even during the first three months of the confrontation, there were significant doctrinal and organizational changes which affected the lowest levels of the French Army. Through the analysis and comparison of the official regimental diaries, personal memoirs, and official military doctrine …

The Effect Of Terminal Levels Of Education, National Economic Prosperity And Rates Of Islamic Terrorism In The Middle East, Nathan Hill

Political Analysis

Nathan G. Hill is a graduating senior from the school of Diplomacy with a BS in International Relations with minors in Arabic, Economics, and Military Science. Upon graduation he will commission as an active duty 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army as a Field artillery officer. He will further his officer education at the Field Artillery Basic Officer Leaders Course in Fort Sill Oklahoma. His senior research thesis topic is studying the levels of Technological Globalization and state-sponsored cyber-attacks in Iran.

American Nuclear Efforts: Prolonging The Cold War, Bryan Mccracken

Political Analysis

Bryan is a senior studying political science at Seton Hall University. A United States Foreign Policy Course inspired his paper, sparking his interest in the field of nuclear weapons, and the effect of their proliferation on the world. Post undergraduate, he plans on attending law school, and is currently in the admissions process.

The New Nuclear Proliferation Treaty: The Present-Day Influence Of The Npt On The International Community, Walla D. Elshekh

Political Analysis

No abstract provided.