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The Cartulary Of Prémontré: People, Places, And Networks From Medieval To Digital, Yvonne Seale, Heather Wacha Jan 2022

The Cartulary Of Prémontré: People, Places, And Networks From Medieval To Digital, Yvonne Seale, Heather Wacha

History

The cartulary of the northern French abbey of Prémontré was produced in the mid-thirteenth century, and preserves acts dating mostly from the 1120s to 1230s, with some later additions. Although the abbey of Prémontré was the mother house of a prominent monastic order, and despite the relative abundance of its documentary record, that source base has been comparatively little studied. In this article, we discuss the process of undertaking the first full edition of this manuscript, some preliminary findings, and the scope that new digital technologies might afford in future prosopographical studies of the cartulary.


"Obstinate, Impertinent, Ill-Conditioned": Child Labor, Exploitation And Xenophobia In The British Home Children Movement, Hannah Lauren Palma Jun 2020

"Obstinate, Impertinent, Ill-Conditioned": Child Labor, Exploitation And Xenophobia In The British Home Children Movement, Hannah Lauren Palma

History

An examination of the British Home Children program as a movement rooted in child labor, misguided philanthropy, and the exploitation of poor child immigrants.


The Holocaust And Human Experimentation: The Nazi Approach To Medicine, Samantha Miller Jun 2020

The Holocaust And Human Experimentation: The Nazi Approach To Medicine, Samantha Miller

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The beginning months of 1945 marked the commencement of the swift downfall of the Nazi regime and the end of the tyrannical, oppressive ruling power it held over most of Europe for close to a decade. As Allied Forces invaded Nazi Germany and the remaining Nazi-occupied territories, they undoubtedly expected to encounter the incredible devastation that World War II had left upon most of the Western European continent, from toppled cities, to separated families, to the rising death toll. However, Allied soldiers would soon have to come face to face with another side-effect of the war, something unforeseen and unimaginable, …


Losing Our Minds To Madness: Paradigm Changes In Western European Perceptions Of Mental Illness, James Michael Cecil Nov 2019

Losing Our Minds To Madness: Paradigm Changes In Western European Perceptions Of Mental Illness, James Michael Cecil

History

Academia and scholarship of the 20th-century bred a renewed interest in mental illness throughout history. Despite an increase in the literature within the discourse surrounding "madness," scholars have generally failed to understand how and why Western European societies have viewed mental illness in various ways throughout recorded history. This paper argues that there remains an inherent, human desire to reject anything different from humanity, particularly mental illness, which is nearly impossible to fully comprehend. This is especially true in the case of how societies have institutionalized, punished, and subjugated the "mad" individual.


75th Anniversary Of D-Day, Boise Public Library Jan 2019

75th Anniversary Of D-Day, Boise Public Library

History

Resources and Photographs of a display of government documents from Boise Public Library, Boise ID.


Eighteenth Century Women And The Business Of Making Glass Music, Kate M. Hepworth Jun 2017

Eighteenth Century Women And The Business Of Making Glass Music, Kate M. Hepworth

History

During the relatively short period from the mid-to-late eighteenth century when glass musical instruments were manufactured and gained popularity, several women made names for themselves in the realm of avant-garde musical performance. The lives of three female glass instrument players: Anne Ford, Marianne Davies, and Marianne Kirchgassner, show how these successful performer-entrepreneurs operated in an age of emerging feminine public identity. Their journeys reveal much about the gender dimensions of the age, the role of music in the modern era, the consumption of it, and their approach to business. The financial opportunities presented to women looking to challenge the limitations …


The Nuremberg Trials As A Form Of Transitional Justice, Nicholas A. Richey May 2017

The Nuremberg Trials As A Form Of Transitional Justice, Nicholas A. Richey

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How England Won North America: William Johnson And The Importance Of Indian Allies In The French And Indian War, David Alexander Clausen Jun 2014

How England Won North America: William Johnson And The Importance Of Indian Allies In The French And Indian War, David Alexander Clausen

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Breaking The Ties: French Romantic Socialism And The Critique Of Liberal Slave Emancipation, Naomi J. Andrews Sep 2013

Breaking The Ties: French Romantic Socialism And The Critique Of Liberal Slave Emancipation, Naomi J. Andrews

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In 1846, the romantic socialist Désiré Laverdant observed that although Great Britain had rightly broken the ties binding masters and slaves, “in delivering the slave from the yoke, it has thrown him, poor brute, into isolation and abandonment. Liberal Europe thinks it has finished its work because it has divided everyone.” Freeing the slaves, he thus suggested, was only the beginning of emancipation. Laverdant’s comment reflects a broader political conversation about the individual and society that was ongoing in France during the 1830s and 1840s in which the issues of colonial slavery, metropolitan wage labor, and imperial expansion in Algeria …


Britain’S Kitchen Front: British Perceptions Of The Food Situation And Women’S Attitudes During The Second World War (February 1942), Marissa Nicole Millhorn Mar 2013

Britain’S Kitchen Front: British Perceptions Of The Food Situation And Women’S Attitudes During The Second World War (February 1942), Marissa Nicole Millhorn

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The Battle For The Mind Of Europe: The Ideological Warfare Of Orwell, Stalin And Mussolini, Tim Zellinger Dec 2012

The Battle For The Mind Of Europe: The Ideological Warfare Of Orwell, Stalin And Mussolini, Tim Zellinger

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The Ambiguities Of The Holy: Authenticating Relics In Seventeenth-Century Spain, Katrina B. Olds Jan 2012

The Ambiguities Of The Holy: Authenticating Relics In Seventeenth-Century Spain, Katrina B. Olds

History

Recent scholarship has shown that, even at the heart of the Catholic world, defining holiness in the Counter-Reformation was remarkably difficult, in spite of ongoing Roman reforms meant to centralize and standardize the authentication of saints and relics. If the standards for evaluating sanctity were complex and contested in Rome, they were even less clear to regional actors, such as the Bishop of Jaén, who supervised the discovery of relics in Arjona, a southern Spanish town, beginning in 1628. The new relics presented the bishop, Cardinal Baltasar de Moscoso y Sandoval, with knotty historical, theological, and procedural dilemmas. As such, …


Review Of Pan-Germanism And The Austrofascist State, 1933-1938, Matthew P. Berg Jan 2012

Review Of Pan-Germanism And The Austrofascist State, 1933-1938, Matthew P. Berg

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Review Of Brezhnev's Folly: The Building Of Bam And Late Soviet Socialism, By Christopher J. Ward, James H. Krukones Apr 2010

Review Of Brezhnev's Folly: The Building Of Bam And Late Soviet Socialism, By Christopher J. Ward, James H. Krukones

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Review Of Vittoria Colonna And The Spiritual Poetics Of The Italian Reformation, Paul V. Murphy Apr 2010

Review Of Vittoria Colonna And The Spiritual Poetics Of The Italian Reformation, Paul V. Murphy

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Comparing Atlantic Histories, Eliga H. Gould Mar 2010

Comparing Atlantic Histories, Eliga H. Gould

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Commemoration Versus Coping With The Past: Contextualising Austria's Commemorative Year 2005, Matthew P. Berg Jan 2008

Commemoration Versus Coping With The Past: Contextualising Austria's Commemorative Year 2005, Matthew P. Berg

History

This essay explores the politics of memory in post-1945 Austrian political culture, focusing on the shift between the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss and the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Postwar Austrian society experienced a particular tension associated with the Nazi past, manifested in communicative and cultural forms of memory. On the one hand, the support of many for the Third Reich—expressed through active or passive complicity—threatened to link Austria with the perpetrator status reserved for German society. On the other, the Allies’ Moscow Declaration (1943) created a myth of victimization by Germany that allowed …


Refocusing The Critical Gaze From Sixty Years’ Distance: Austrians’ Experiences Of The Nazi Past In Recent Historical Studies, Matthew P. Berg Jan 2008

Refocusing The Critical Gaze From Sixty Years’ Distance: Austrians’ Experiences Of The Nazi Past In Recent Historical Studies, Matthew P. Berg

History

Compared to the late 1970s, when the Austrian voting behavior was characterized by extraordinary stability, low electoral volatility, and high turnout rates, the 1980s and 1990s stand for exceptional changes and ruptures elicited primarily by the rise of the right wing populist FPÍ (Freedom Party of Austria). This volume of collected papers investigates the permanent changes of Austrian voting behavior over the past forty years and analyzes causes and consequences for party competition and the electoral process in Austria during the first decade of the twenty-first century.


Review Of Russia's Greatest Enemy? Harold Williams And The Russian Revolutions, By Charlotte Alston., James H. Krukones Jan 2008

Review Of Russia's Greatest Enemy? Harold Williams And The Russian Revolutions, By Charlotte Alston., James H. Krukones

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Arbeitspflicht In Postwar Vienna: Punishing Nazis Vs. Expediting Reconstruction, 1945-48, Matthew P. Berg Jan 2006

Arbeitspflicht In Postwar Vienna: Punishing Nazis Vs. Expediting Reconstruction, 1945-48, Matthew P. Berg

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Fighting Fascism In Europe: The World War Ii Letters Of An American Veteran Of The Spanish Civil War, Cane Lawrence Mar 2003

Fighting Fascism In Europe: The World War Ii Letters Of An American Veteran Of The Spanish Civil War, Cane Lawrence

History

On his first day in basic training in 1942, Lawrence Cane wrote his wife Grace from Fort Dix, New Jersey. "I'm in the army now? Really!" he wrote, complaining, "I don't have enough time to write a decent letter."

Three years later, Capt. Lawrence Cane went home from World War II. He'd landed at Utah Beach on D-Day, helped liberate France and Belgium, and survived the Battle of the Bulge. He won a Silver Star for bravery. And he still managed to write 300 letters home to Grace. This book is a different kind of war story--both an powerful chronicle …


Review Of The Cult Of Ivan The Terrible In Stalin's Russia, By Maureen Perrie., James H. Krukones Jan 2003

Review Of The Cult Of Ivan The Terrible In Stalin's Russia, By Maureen Perrie., James H. Krukones

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Review Of A History Of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya To Babi Yar, By Frances Maes., James H. Krukones Jan 2003

Review Of A History Of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya To Babi Yar, By Frances Maes., James H. Krukones

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The Victims: Did The Nazi T–4 Euthanasia Program Discriminate Among Victims In The Targeted Groups?, Nancy Unger Jan 2003

The Victims: Did The Nazi T–4 Euthanasia Program Discriminate Among Victims In The Targeted Groups?, Nancy Unger

History

Nancy C. Unger and J. Michael Butler take up the question of the targeting of Jews for elimination in the Holocaust. Was this emphasis a special case or part of a broader spectrum of elimination policies designed to rid Germany of all groups designated as undesirable by Nazi ideology— including homosexuals, Gypsies, and the mentally ill?

Unger argues for the specificity of the targeting of the Jewish population for extermination by comparing it to the case of homosexuals. Homosexual men were incarcerated in the death camps, and many were killed in the course of the Holocaust, but, Unger argues, their …


"I Went To Learn," Meanings Of The European Tour Of Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1923, Nancy Unger Jan 2002

"I Went To Learn," Meanings Of The European Tour Of Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1923, Nancy Unger

History

In 1923, progressive Senator Robert M. La Follette, an astute observer of government, economics, and social conditions, toured Europe in preparation for his third-party presidential bid. This article examines that trip and its legacy, particularly in relation to Daniel T. Rodgers' 1998 book Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age.1


Review Of Black Jacks: African American Seamen In The Age Of The Sail., Anne Kugler Jan 2000

Review Of Black Jacks: African American Seamen In The Age Of The Sail., Anne Kugler

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Review Of Shaping History: Ordinary People In European Politics, 1500-1700., Anne Kugler Jan 2000

Review Of Shaping History: Ordinary People In European Politics, 1500-1700., Anne Kugler

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Review Of Social Democracy In The Austrian Provinces, 1918-1934: Beyond Red Vienna., Matthew P. Berg Jan 1998

Review Of Social Democracy In The Austrian Provinces, 1918-1934: Beyond Red Vienna., Matthew P. Berg

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Review Of Kontroversen Um Osterreichs Zeitgeschichte., Matthew P. Berg Jan 1998

Review Of Kontroversen Um Osterreichs Zeitgeschichte., Matthew P. Berg

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Review Of Between Reconciliation And Distraction: A Controversy Over Austria Historical Identity 50 Years After The Anschluss (German), By H. Uhl, Matthew P. Berg Mar 1995

Review Of Between Reconciliation And Distraction: A Controversy Over Austria Historical Identity 50 Years After The Anschluss (German), By H. Uhl, Matthew P. Berg

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