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Milwaukee Turners, Alison Clark Efford

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Housing Projects And Cityscape In Vienna: Apartment Buildings As Fortresses From Metaphor To Reality, Michael J. Zeps S.J.

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A Running Fight Against Their Fellow Men: Civil War Veterans In Gilded Age Literature, James Marten

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Review Of Across The Bloody Chasm: The Culture Of Commemoration Among Civil War Veterans By M. Keith Harris, James Marten

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In Harm's Way: Wisconsin Workers And Disability From The Gilded Age To The Great Depression, Karalee Donna Surface

Dissertations (1934 -)

During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the American workplace proved especially dangerous to its workers’ lives and limbs. The introduction of mass-production, coupled with a lack of safeguards on mechanized equipment and a dearth of workplace safety or sanitation regulations, ensured that an ever-growing number of workers were maimed or killed. Wisconsin legislators initially sought to remedy the issue of workplace violence by issuing a series of safety laws in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This, however, failed to stem the number of accident victims. Furthermore, the common law liability system through which injured workers could seek restitution from …

"Breaking Up, And Moving Westward": The Search For Identity In Post-Colonial America, 1787-1828, Bethany Harding

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation approaches the early national United States as a post-colonial state, and draws new connections between the country’s westward development and Americans’ ability to detach from their colonial past. At the conclusion of the American Revolution in 1783, the new United States became the first nation built on the ruins of a British colonial foundation; its citizens faced the colossal task of forging an independent national consciousness without being able to draw clear racial or ethnic lines of distinction between themselves and the former mother country. White Americans of the founding generation occupied a unique and tenuous position: in …

Review Of East Meets East: Chinese Discover The Modern World In Japan, 1854-1898, Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

The argument in this book is simple but non-trivial: China encountered the modern world in Japan, especially after the fall of the last samurai regime and the creation of a modern oligarchy. Chinese intellectuals who visited Japan between the US expedition to Japan in 1854 and the onset of reforms following China's loss in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) wrote about what they saw and, in so doing, introduced a new vocabulary of modernization used by the Chinese state.

Review Of Eastern Learning And The Heavenly Way: The Tonghak And Ch'ondogyo Movements And The Twilight Of Korean Independence, Michael Wert

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Review Of The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams And The Making Of China, Michael Wert

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The Higher Worlds Meet The Lower Criticism New Scholarship On Rudolf Steiner, Peter Staudenmaier

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Review Of The Women's War Of 1929: Gender And Violence In Colonial Nigeria, Chima J. Korieh

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Review Of The Annals Of King T'Aejo: Founder Of Korea's Choson Dynasty, Michael Wert

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Children's Literature, James Marten

History Faculty Research and Publications

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‘The Military Mirror Of Kai’: Swordsmanship And A Medieval Text In Early Modern Japan, Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

Swordsmanship emerged as a new field of knowledge in early modern Japan (1600–1868), a time of relative peace. During the most violent periods of Japanese history, the latter half of the medieval period (1185–1600), samurai conducted warfare mostly on horseback, using the bow and arrow, or by leading massive armies filled with soldiers who used pikes, halberds, and even firearms. In this paper, I will trace the origins of early modern swordsmanship to the late 16th century during the transition between the medieval and early modern periods, when teachers of swordsmanship and their sword ‘styles’ first appeared in texts. Of …

Review Of Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule And The Politics Of Public Space In Colonial Korea, 1910-1945, Michael Wert

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Review Of Union Heartland: The Midwestern Home Front During The Civil War, James Marten

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Genealogical Treasures: From The Catholic School Legacy Of Pioneers Msgr. William Ketcham And St. Katharine Drexel, Mark G. Thiel

Library Faculty Research and Publications

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Illuminating The Irish Free State: Nationalism, National Identity, And The Promotion Of The Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme, Mckayla Kay Sutton

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation focuses on the ways in which the Shannon Hydroelectric Scheme influenced perceptions of Irishness in the fraught context of postcolonial nation building. The Irish Free State, established by a treaty with Great Britain in 1921, faced the difficult task of maintaining order and establishing stable institutions for the new state. One of the government's most audacious efforts to achieve these objectives was to construct the largest hydroelectric dam in the world on the River Shannon in 1925 with the help of German contractors from Siemens-Schuckert. The first half of the dissertation deals with several ideological issues brought to …

Review Of Le Leges Libitinariae Flegree: Edizione E Commento 34 By Sergio Castagnetti, Sarah E. Bond

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Human Rights And African Migration, Chima J. Korieh

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Piano Assassins And Bell Ringers: Itinerant Piano Tuners At The Turn-Of-The-Century, James Marten

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Big Men On Campus: Administrative Response To Title Ix And The Development Of Women's Sports In The Big Ten Conference, 1972-1982, Jeffrey T. Ramsey

Dissertations (1934 -)

Signed into law in 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments was designed to eliminate gender discrimination throughout the American educational system. Title IX applied to all educational programs at any level of schooling including admissions, financial aid, academic programs, and social organizations. However, Title IX has primarily been associated with college sports. Since 1972, female participation in intercollegiate athletics has increased dramatically. Yet additional opportunities for

women in sports have not come easily. Significant battles between university leaders and the government about how this piece of legislation was to be enforced have persisted throughout the decades since passage of …

Review Of Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers And The Limits Of American Independence, 1640–1868 By Courtney Weikle-Mills, James Marten

History Faculty Research and Publications

No children appear in Imaginary Citizens until chapter 4, and then just barely; their presence would have made this a very different book. Yet they remain central to Courtney Weikle-Mills's argument that during the 250 years after Europeans came to the New World, children and childhood provided real and metaphorical meanings to freedom and citizenship and reflected the ways democratic values could actually be shaped by words.

Biafra And The Discourse On The Igbo Genocide, Chima J. Korieh

History Faculty Research and Publications

There has been a reluctance or indifference to a systematic study and documentation of the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria. In the main, the reason has been due to official and non-official attempts to subvert a focus on an event in which more than one million Igbo were slaughtered through a process that was fomented, orchestrated, executed, and supervised by the Nigerian state.

Review Of La Grâce Du Roi: Les Lettres De Clémence De Grande Chancellerie Au Xviii Siècle By Reynald Abad, Julius R. Ruff

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Imperially-Minded Britons: A Study Of The Public Discourse On Britain’S Imperial Presence In The Cape-To- Cairo Corridor, Military Reform, And The Issue Of National And Provincial Identity, 1870-1900, Timothy Ramer Lay

Dissertations (1934 -)

The Victorian era was marked by the incremental expansion of the British Empire. Such developments were not only of enormous importance for government officials and the contributors of that expansion, but for the broader general public as well, as evidenced by the coverage and discussion of such developments in the Cape to Cairo corridor in the national and provincial presses between 1870 and 1900. Transcending the discussions surrounding the politics of interventionism, the public’s interest in imperial activities— such as the annexation of the Transvaal, the First Anglo-Boer War, the Zulu War, Gordon’s mission into the Sudan, the Jameson raid …

Review Of Sombreros And Motorcycles In A Newer South: The Politics Of Aesthetics In South Carolina's Tourism Industry By P. Nicole King, Andrew W. Kahrl

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Review Of The Women's War Of 1929: A History Of Anti-Colonial Resistance In Eastern Nigeria, Chima J. Korieh

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Roundtable Review Of The Land Was Ours, Andrew W. Kahrl, Jacob D. Hamblin, Sarah Elkind, Cassandra Johnson-Gaither, Colin Fisher

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Ricardo Diaz - Latino/A Mass Incarceration In Relation To The “War On Drugs”, Ricardo Diaz

Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program 2013

Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow, argues that the American legal system is a racial caste system maintained by unequal drug laws, what she terms, “The New Jim Crow” laws. This essay explores the limits of her thesis in relation to Latino/a population in the United States. Specific attention is paid to the Latino/a population in Wisconsin where racial disparities in the penal system are the greatest in America. Analysis of government data suggests that Alexander’s research reproduces the tendency of the American legal system to define race in binary terms: black and white. In effect this leaves …