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Dissolution Of The British Parliament 1832-1931, Kemble White

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

John Jacob Astor In Oregon, Linus A. Zadra

Bachelors’ Theses

The United States was yet a comparatively young nation in 1800. Although victorious in the war for independence, and although formally recognized ln the Treaty of Paris (1783), yet England did not treat her former colonies as a separate nation for her troops still occupied the American frontier posts at Mackinaw, Niagra, Detroit, and Oswego. The war, moreover, put a heavy burden of debt upon the United States. The country was on the verge of bankruptcy. Each colony floated its own issue of worthless paper money. There was little activity under these conditions along the frontier; hence, we find very …

Irish Travel, Vol. 10 (1934-35), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

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Diplomacy At The Outbreak Of The World War., Earl Robertson Martin 1890-1984

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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France And An International Police Force., Homer Castle White

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Catalonia: A Case Study In Racial Minorities, Eugene H. Miller

History Honors Papers

This 32 page thesis explores the history of Spain and Catalonia as well as the question of Catalan identity and the movement for independence.

Irish Travel, Vol. 09 (1933-34), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Soviet Russia: An Interpretation, John J. Heeren

Open Learning Resources, General/Selected

Summary

This paper offers an interpretation of Soviet Russia, based upon several weeks of direct observation and investigation conducted in the summer of 1932. The Soviet Union presents itself as a colossal experiment in recasting human society along Marxian lines. The following pages examine both the philosophical underpinnings of Communism and the visible outworking of this revolutionary transformation. Impressive industrial centers reflect a Planned Economy of great ambition, yet marred by shortages, inefficiencies, and a reliance upon capitalistic methods such as piecework and wage incentives. Visible wealth and inequality have been replaced with widespread, uniform poverty. In the countryside, collectivization …

The English Traveller And The Movement Of Ideas 1660-1732, R. W. Frantz

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

During the span of years reaching from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries, related forces persisted which gave to the voyage-literature of that day a distinctive pattern, both in thought and in form. Between 1660 and 1732 other forces began to act; and the result was an altered pattern. This change was due principally to the impetus which experimental science received during !the last half of the seventeenth century. The age which saw the rise of the Royal Society, the publication of Newton's Principia and Locke's Essay, the age, in other words, which conceived the world of nature and of …

Nationalism In Europe, Michael L. Sanfelippo

Bachelors’ Theses

In attempting a synthesis of the history of the world as it is known today, there seems to be one aspect under which it can be universally synthesized and that is by a study of the growth and development of nationalism.

The Origin, Development & Present Status Of County Government In Kentucky, Walton Reynolds

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

It is the purpose of this study to investigate the origin and development of our present county government and to give the essentials of the present status. It is intended to present a brief outline history of the growth and changes in the administrative organization of the county from the days of the shire and the Norman Invasion of England to the reign of the Stuarts; and then to transplant that form of local government into the forested wastes of James River, and there watch it adapt itself to the frontier environment of a new world. In the process of …

The Fench Writers In The Seventeenth Century: The Literary Works Of Corneille Converted And Stabilized The French Language, Bernard Raphael

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, submitted to Xavier University in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1932, argues that the literary work of Pierre Corneille converted and stabilized the French language during the seventeenth century. It surveys the major literary institutions and figures shaping French letters during this period, including the Salon de Rambouillet and its role in refining literary taste, and the founding of the French Academy under Richelieu and its work compiling the French dictionary. Corneille's development of French classical tragedy is examined in detail, particularly through "Le Cid," with attention to his treatment of the …

Irish Travel, Vol. 08 (1932-33), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

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Post-War Problems Of Turkey, 1918-1925, Francis Marion Rust

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Sir Philip Sidney : Renaissance Courtier And Gentleman., Mariam Sidebottom Houchens

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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An Interpretation Of The Franco-German Relations From Versailles To Locarno., John Paul Keith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Irish Travel, Vol. 07 (1931-32), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

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The Secular Activities Of The German Episcopate 919-1024, Edgar Nathaniel Johnson

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

The appearance of the monarchical bishop in the early organization of the church is its most outstanding feature. His diocese so far supplants in importance the early Christian community, that in his own person he becomes almost synonymous with the church itself. In the respect paid him and in the affluence of his outward display he vies with the Roman provincial governor. The increasing patrimony of the church comes under his guiding hand, and with time he becomes the dominant administrator in those towns where Roman municipal administration was decadent. Every bishop to some extent nourished ambitions similar to those …

The Authenticity Of Benson's Historical Novels, Estelle T. Bell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the historical accuracy of Robert Hugh Benson's historical novels "The King's Achievement," "Come Rack! Come Rope!," and "By What Authority," arguing that despite their fictional romantic elements, these novels authentically portray the historical relationship between the English and Catholic Churches during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Bell opens by distinguishing the aims of the historian from those of the novelist, then situates Benson biographically as a convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism whose religious sensibility shaped his literary work.

Drawing on the "Lingard-Belloc History of England" as an authoritative historical source, the thesis traces the …

Irish Travel, Vol. 06 (1930-31), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

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Recommendation Letter For Bruno Schweizer From Ferdinand Wrede, May 2, 1930, Ferdinand Wrede

Bruno Schweizer

Recommendation letter for Bruno Schweizer from Ferdinand Wrede of the German Language Atlas project to the president of the German Academy. Wrede describes Schweizer's work on the project and his strong background in dialect research and folk culture studies.

The Growth Of Royal Power In France Before The French Revolution, Mildred L. Martin

Bachelors’ Theses

Since history deals with the happenings and the events in the lives of the people, and the people make up a country, and the events in the lives of the people are the events in the life of a country, it is necessary to study the lives of the people or the individuals who play an important role in the events of a country in order to write the history of the country. Accordingly, we must consider the various individuals connected with the history of France and their contributions to forward the growth of royal power in France.

Irish Travel, Vol. 05 (1929-30), Irish Tourist Association

Journals and Periodicals

No abstract provided.

Feudalism Preserved England’S Traditions Which Eventually Placed Her In Foremost Rank In Civilized Nations, Bernice Giese

Bachelors’ Theses

In the following pages I am going to try to trace the advancement of England through feudalism which eventually placed her in foremost rank in civilized nations.

No solution, I believe, can be made of the problems presented by history ever be complete until the knowledge of man is better known, Possibly a good definition of the history of man would be as Dr. A. F. Pollard, Professor of English History in the University of London would state, ’’Change has been, and is, the breath of our existence and the condition of our growth.”

Colonel House Abroad, Charles T. Dix

Historical Dissertations & Theses

The purpose of this thesis it to trace the influence of Edward Mandell House upon the formation of Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy.

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A Royal Prerogative In The United States, Judson A. Crane

West Virginia Law Review

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Gladstone And Ireland, Leona Reineck

Bachelors’ Theses

On December 29, 1809 there was born in No. 62 Rodney Street, Liverpool a man who in later years was called by some Englishmen, a devil, and by others, an angel, depending on their political view points. William Ewart Gladstone was the third of six children, a descendent of an old Scottish family, the Gledstanes of Gledstanes. He was born at a critical moment in the fortunes of England and of Europe.

The Earl Of Beaconsfield And The Eastern Policy 1875-1878, With Special Emphasis On The Congress Of Berlin 1878, Henry Raymond Radosevich

Bachelors’ Theses

In the year 1875 a grave crisis occurred in the Turkish Empire. This crisis was but one of the many problems presented to European diplomats of the nineteenth century in solving international crises. This was the reoccurrence of spasmodic revolutionary movements peculiar to nineteen century Europe. The difficulties of the Turkish Empire came from within, hence internal. With the corruption of the Turkish Government came the challenging of certain European peoples of the Balkan Hegemony of the Sultan.

Law -- Rome's Greatest Gift To The World, Annette Marie Zink

Bachelors’ Theses

It is now nearly two thousand years since the curtain fell upon the last act in the history of the Roman Republic. During these twenty centuries many other republics have flourished and passed away, while, in turn, new republics have arisen to take the place of the earlier ones; but no other fallen republic in the world during the whole course of history has attained to the same degree of importance, or has exerted the same influence on the history of the world, as did that of Rome. Any adequate discussion of Roman Law necessitates a clear conception of the …

A Social And Intellectual Interpretation Of European History From The Thirteenth Century Through The Age Of Napolean, Laurence Joseph Younce

Bachelors’ Theses

One of ·the most outstanding features of this century, called by Walsh "the greatest of centuries'', is the steady decline it exhibits of the power of the Holy Roman Empire. The causes for this decline were as numerous as inexorable: there was (1) a well-nigh insuperable combination of physical difficulties in the way of effective unity, (2) a disintegrating rise of differing national consciousnesses among the component parts of the Empire, (3) the anarchic tendencies of feudalism, (4) the influence of the contemporaneous Commercial Revolution through the rise of the city states, (5) the rise of the nation states of …