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Italy And Italians Through American Eyes, 1861-1881, Dennis M. Bench
Italy And Italians Through American Eyes, 1861-1881, Dennis M. Bench
History Theses & Dissertations
American perceptions of Italy and Italians between 1861 and 1881 were characterized by competing and conflicting images. These two decades in the late nineteenth century demonstrated the transitional nature of American attitudes towards Italians as contact between the two peoples increased. American travelers went to Italy initially to recreate the journeys of educated Europeans of the Grand Tours of the eighteenth century. By the 1860s this style of travel was on the decline to be replaced by traveling based on exploring the "real" Italy. However, the two styles overlapped and resulted in conflicting and complementary images. In part this was …
Crossing Borders: Mexican Immigration Into The United States, Ewelina L. Dzieciolowski
Crossing Borders: Mexican Immigration Into The United States, Ewelina L. Dzieciolowski
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
Immigration has been one of the major political and economic topics debated by governments in the world. In the United States, migration legislation is debated in the Senate, and impacts every industry throughout the country. Therefore, with further research in this field more answers for why migration occurs can be found. Although various disciplines focus on this phenomenon, each offers reasons specific to the discipline which is searching for an explanation. This thesis acknowledges that economic factors, social aspects, push and pull influences are some of the reasons for immigration, but it also proposes that there are other forces behind …
Slavery-Era Disclosure And Atlantic Commerce, Keith R. Allen, Jelmer Vos
Slavery-Era Disclosure And Atlantic Commerce, Keith R. Allen, Jelmer Vos
History Faculty Publications
Explores the connections between greater Atlantic Ocean commerce and those northern European businesses that invested in and profited from the slave trade, from the 16th century to 1888, the year that Brazil outlawed slavery - the last country in the Americas to do so. Presents the results of an in-depth case study of the predecessors of the Dutch bank ABN AMRO regarding their financial involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and its extensive commercial network in the Western Hemisphere, which was centered on the Americas.