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Emerging Cold War Ideologies During The Populist Era In Latin America And The Us Media Response, Katherine D. Prince
Emerging Cold War Ideologies During The Populist Era In Latin America And The Us Media Response, Katherine D. Prince
History Theses
This thesis aims to identify the characteristics of populism and how those characteristics directly affected the politics and helped set the stage for later military dictatorships in Latin America. This text aims to look at how military regimes in Latin America placed blame on populist leaders and used their inefficiencies as a justification for taking power and establishing military rule. In many instances in Latin America, populist leader’s time in office was characterized by inflation and concern over foreign investment.
The concern over foreign investment and possible foreign takeover of local industries provides the background for another concern, that of …
Hell In The Snow: The U.S. Army In The Colmar Pocket, January 22 - February 9, 1945, Clinton W. Thompson
Hell In The Snow: The U.S. Army In The Colmar Pocket, January 22 - February 9, 1945, Clinton W. Thompson
History Theses
In December of 1944 and January of 1945, as Allied forces fought to slowly regain their footing in the Battle of the Bulge, another fierce engagement raged to the south in Alsace and became known as the Battle of the Colmar Pocket. Although overshadowed by the more famous fight to the north, the Colmar Pocket nevertheless played a pivotal role in the war in Europe. Yet the engagement which made Audie Murphy famous remains at the periphery of our understanding of the intense fighting in the winter of 1944-45. This thesis is about the overlooked story in the Allied struggle …
“That Dark Parade”: Emily Dickinson And The Victorian "Cult Of Death”, Carol M. Degrasse
“That Dark Parade”: Emily Dickinson And The Victorian "Cult Of Death”, Carol M. Degrasse
English Department Theses
The elegiac poems of Emily Dickinson provide what is perhaps the clearest depiction of the conflicting emotions inherent to the death-conscious nineteenth century. In one such poem, Dickinson’s oxymoronic phrase, “Dark Parade,” encapsulates the spirit of a social movement that was born of a desire to comfort the grief-stricken and to beautify the horrific. Throughout Dickinson’s corpus of elegiac poetry, the speaker echoes these sentiments and crafts an insightful portrait, juxtaposing the stark horror of death with the ethereal beauty of ceremony. As Dickinson’s elegies are traced over time, the poems develop as microcosmic representations of a grieving nation, as …
Tyler Daily Courier-Times, January 1925-December 1929, Vicki Betts
Tyler Daily Courier-Times, January 1925-December 1929, Vicki Betts
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Article level index to the Tyler Daily Courier-Times, published in Tyler, Texas, for January 1925-December 1929. Indexing is limited to articles related to Smith County, Texas.