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Sacrificing Sisters: Nurses' Psychological Trauma From The First World War, 1914-1918, Kayla Campana Jan 2022

Sacrificing Sisters: Nurses' Psychological Trauma From The First World War, 1914-1918, Kayla Campana

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-

This thesis examines psychological war trauma nurses experienced during the First World War. Psychological war trauma, or shell shock, as it was commonly known during the war, has largely been identified as a male affliction. In this thesis, I demonstrate that women too, suffered trauma and we can better understand nurses' trauma by applying some of the same analytical techniques that scholars have previously used to examine male combatant trauma. Moreover, I analyze the ways in which contemporary actors, including medical professionals and the public, imagined female trauma, specifically the way nurses' psychological trauma could be understood and articulated. Additionally, …


Australian And New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) In World War One: The Making Of National Identity And Erasure Of Women And People Of Color, Simran Pawar Jan 2020

Australian And New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) In World War One: The Making Of National Identity And Erasure Of Women And People Of Color, Simran Pawar

Honors Undergraduate Theses

My work seeks to understand the origins of national identity as it pertains to the Anzacs of Australia and New Zealand, their service at the Battle of Gallipoli, and its use in the establishment of a white, male creation myth in both nations following the end of World War One. I furthermore plan to examine how this Anzac myth excluded and even erased the place of marginalized communities in the birth of Australia and New Zealand as modern nations. In other words, my thesis explores both the insiders and the outsiders of the Anzac myth. My cutting-edge research aims to …


The Troupes Coloniales: A Comparative Analysis Of African American And French Colonial Soldiers In The First World War, Matthew Patsis Jan 2020

The Troupes Coloniales: A Comparative Analysis Of African American And French Colonial Soldiers In The First World War, Matthew Patsis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-

This thesis examines the service of African American soldiers during World War I in comparison with the service of French Colonial soldiers from Africa. This thesis argues that African Americans existed as colonial subjects of the American Empire and served as the colonial army of the United States just as soldiers from Africa did for France. The scope of this thesis covers ideologies of race in the United States and France, as well as racial policy and the implementation of racial hierarchy within the French and American armies during World War I. Through comparative analysis, this research reveals the relationship …


To The Memory Of Brave Men: The Imperial War Graves Commission And India's Missing Soldiers Of The First World War, Roger Sims Jan 2018

To The Memory Of Brave Men: The Imperial War Graves Commission And India's Missing Soldiers Of The First World War, Roger Sims

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the commemoration of Indian soldiers who died during the First World War by the Imperial War Graves Commission, Britain's official government body overseeing all imperial commemoration efforts. For the soldiers of the Indian Army their war experience was split between the Western Front in Europe and Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq. They were also far more ethnically, religiously, and lingually diverse than their British and Dominion counterparts. In order to examine how geography, religion, and the imperial relationship affected Britain's commemoration of India's war dead, this study uses the Commission's own records to recreate how the IWGC created …


The Evolving Emancipator: An Analysis Of Abraham Lincoln And The Progression And Development Of His Emancipationist Impulse, Sharon N. Rodriguez Jan 2017

The Evolving Emancipator: An Analysis Of Abraham Lincoln And The Progression And Development Of His Emancipationist Impulse, Sharon N. Rodriguez

Honors Undergraduate Theses

This research looks at the narrative of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator versus the Evolving Emancipator. The goal of this thesis is to contribute to the narrative of the Evolving Emancipator and show an imperfect man who achieved this action after trials and tribulations.This has been achieved by examining letters and other primary sources to fully understand the scope of Lincoln’s sentiments regarding slavery. My research shows a man who acknowledged slavery because it was sanctioned by the law. He recognized the rights of slave owners, both to retain their slaves and to have fugitive slaves returned, as they …


Methods Short Of War: The United States Reacts To The Rise Of The Third Reich, Kenneth Negy Jan 2013

Methods Short Of War: The United States Reacts To The Rise Of The Third Reich, Kenneth Negy

HIM 1990-2015

This project analyzes the various opinions in the United States of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis during the 1930s and studies the amount of information that was available in the United States regarding Nazi Germany before entering World War II. Specifically, it seeks to understand why the United States did relatively little to influence German and European affairs even in the face of increasing Nazi brutality and bellicosity. The analysis has been divided into three different categories. The first focuses on the United States government, and the President and Secretary of State in particular. The second category analyzes the minority …


The End Of U.S. Military Detainee Operations At Abu Ghraib, Iraq, Michael Allgood Jan 2009

The End Of U.S. Military Detainee Operations At Abu Ghraib, Iraq, Michael Allgood

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Operation Iraqi Freedom launched with the backing of U.S. Coalition Forces (CF) on March 20, 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The United States occupied Iraq by bombing and cleansing Iraq of weapons (Dahabour 105-130). During the first year of occupation U.S. soldiers at the detention facility Abu Ghraib tortured detainees in their charge. This torture becomes known to the public through worldwide media coverage in May 2004. My thesis will cover my service as a Military Police officer (MP) at Abu Ghraib from December 2005-August 2006. During my tour of duty at Abu Ghraib I was required to …


Eyes In The Text: Surveying The Ocular Aesthetic In Pat Barker's War Trilogy, James Hammond Jan 2005

Eyes In The Text: Surveying The Ocular Aesthetic In Pat Barker's War Trilogy, James Hammond

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In 1991, British novelist Patricia Barker published Regeneration, the first of three novels that portrayed the exploits of both factual and fictional characters during the darkest days of WWI. Barker's Eye in the Door (1993), followed by The Ghost Road (1995) for which she won the Booker Prize for Fiction, completed the series that explored the effects of combat on the human psyche. What emerges as a dominant feature of Barker's war novels is her depiction of the ocular sense. Reminiscent of Orwellianism, Barker's texts contain a seemingly ubiquitous ocular presence. For example, neurasthenic patients are scrutinized by army psychiatrists, …


Disarm To Parley: A Case For Unilateral Disarmament, W. M. Ferry Jan 1961

Disarm To Parley: A Case For Unilateral Disarmament, W. M. Ferry

PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.


A Proposal For A Ban On The Use Of Nuclear Weapons, Morton H. Halperin Jan 1961

A Proposal For A Ban On The Use Of Nuclear Weapons, Morton H. Halperin

PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.


The Big Hand In Your Pocket: Your Taxes, Your Livelihood, And The Growing Power Of The Military, American Friends Service Committee Peace Education Program Jan 1960

The Big Hand In Your Pocket: Your Taxes, Your Livelihood, And The Growing Power Of The Military, American Friends Service Committee Peace Education Program

PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.


The Crisis In U.S. Defense, Klaus Eugen Knorr Jan 1957

The Crisis In U.S. Defense, Klaus Eugen Knorr

PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.


Texts Of Speeches On Armed Forces Of The United Nations On Foreign Territory In Committee I Of The United Nations General Assembly, November 1946, New York City, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov Jan 1946

Texts Of Speeches On Armed Forces Of The United Nations On Foreign Territory In Committee I Of The United Nations General Assembly, November 1946, New York City, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov

PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.


The Red Army, Workers Library Publishers Jan 1941

The Red Army, Workers Library Publishers

PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.


Who Betrayed France ?, André Pierre Marty Jan 1940

Who Betrayed France ?, André Pierre Marty

PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements

No abstract provided.