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Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 2004, Volume 2, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.

Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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Robert Gordon, Class Of 1940, University Libraries, Lane Library

Finding Aids

Mrs. Gordon (Rosalyn Weiser, Class of 1943) lent a scrapbook highlighting Mr. Gordon's athletic career, giving the archivist permission to make photocopies of its contents before returning it to her. The scrapbook contained a letter from Dean J. Thomas Askew inviting Gordon to take exams for a tuition scholarship because of his excellent high school grades. The archivist also made copies of newspaper clippings (The Savannah Morning News, The Inkwell, 1938 and 1939) related to Gordon's years at Armstrong on the basketball and football teams. The collection contains photocopies of his Athletic Hall of Fame plaque dated 1998, as well …

Latin American Resistance Movements In The Time Of The Posts, Glen Kuecker

History Faculty publications

This article examines the flood of resistance movements in today’s Latin America. It places them in the context of the great economic changes that have swept the world since the end of the Cold War, what is often called “globalization.” Analysis focuses on the “newness” of our contemporary period, especially the importance of the transnational political and economic order. This essay illustrates how social scientists attempt to understand this moment of change, and emphasizes the limitations to their theory. Special emphasis is on the utility of New Social Movement theory as a tool for understanding today’s resistance movements as well …

Archival Gleanings On Russian Trade And Consulates In The Near East, Theophilus C. Prousis

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

Imperial Russia’s maritime access to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean broadened the framework of tsarist influence in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century. The pursuit of strategic and diplomatic aims in Istanbul, the Straits and the Balkan peninsula, in conjunction with the protection of Eastern Orthodoxy and the extension of trade in the Levant, made the Eastern Question a complex and multi-faceted issue for Imperial Russia. Archival sources on commerce and consulates shed light on the variety of interests which comprised Russia's Eastern Question and deserve more critical examination by scholars of Russian designs in the Near East.

Landscape Of The Levant: A Russian View, Theophilus C. Prousis

History Faculty Research and Scholarship

European travel literature on the Levant provides one of the most accessible, if not always accurate, sources for studying life and society in the Ottoman world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The prospects of adventure, trade, and pilgrimage attracted generations of European men and women, many of whom recorded their impressions of places and peoples encountered in the Near East. In view of Russia's proximity to the Ottoman Empire, not to mention Russian religious and cultural ties with the sultan's Eastern Orthodox Christians, travelers from Muscovite and Imperial Russia visited the Ottoman realm, and many of them, drawn to …

Vulcan Historical Review 8 (Complete Issue), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

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Vulcan Historical Review 8 (End Matter), Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

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Death Of An Overseer: Reopening A Murder Investigation From The Plantation South, John Gilchrist

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 146-148

Trial Of The Times: Slanting Of The Facts, Daniel Fowler

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 99-107

A Study Of The Decision Of The Czech Republic To Join The European Union, Harold Conard Mock Iii

The Corinthian

Since its establishment as the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, the European Union has provided more than half a century of peace and prosperity to the continent. The people of the European Union have been guaranteed justice through strict adherence to democratic ideals and respect for human rights; economic stability through transition to a common currency, job creation, development of infrastructure, and fiscal globalization; environmental protection through rigorous membership credentials and legislative policy; and security through the formulation of a single, strong, powerful voice in world affairs. The initial members were Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and the …

Censured Mystics: Expression And Accusation In Sixteenth Century Spain, Allison Ralph

All Volumes (2001-2008)

In sixteenth-century Spain, women were among the individuals in society with the most limits placed on their behavior, and with the least ability to practice self-determination.
Since social and religious norms are interrelated and influence each other, their twin ladders of social mobility are also related. Some courageous women created for themselves upward social mobility by using the separate hierarchy of religious devotion. Since ecstatic religious experience and special access to the holy were regarded as a gift from God, this religious hierarchy could be described as level of access to the holy and was less defined and more fluid …

Endless Enlightenment: Eye-Operated Technology And The Political Economy Of Vision, Michael Gardiner

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Despite a residual popular temptation to see the posts of cultural analysis as signs of temporal closure, the logic of global visual media is strengthening, not weakening, metaphors of visibility which remain intact from the Enlightenment. Here I describe a stand-off between post-Enlightenment critiques (as in some sectors of Cultural Studies) and a narrow power base which is defined by producing light and managing the very conditions of visibility. For the world's most powerful state, still strongly bound to its original Enlightenment foundations, intervention into other states' sovereignty is increasingly justified by evidence from spy planes (rather than …

That Memorable Campaign: American Experiences In The China Relief Expedition During The 1900 Boxer Rebellion, Eric T. Smith

LSU Master's Theses

At the time of the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, the American army was not experienced in dealing with challenges abroad. The Army spent the last quarter of the nineteenth century fighting the Indian Wars in the West and a generation of officers grew to maturity commanding small frontier posts where only a few had the opportunity to maneuver large formations during the Spanish-American War. The infantrymen who marched into Peking in August of 1900 were transitioning between the tactics of the past and the future. The Napoleonic formations used in the American Civil War, already made obsolete at …

A Settlement Of Great Consequence: The Development Of The Natchez District, 1763-1860, Lee Davis Smith

LSU Master's Theses

This study examines events, conditions, and circumstances that influenced the development of the Natchez District of West Florida from its acquisition by Great Britain in 1763 until the eve of the Civil War. The strong relationships between West Florida and the “original thirteen” colonies created a dynamic area of Revolutionary and antebellum era growth in West Florida, and particularly in the Natchez District. Eighteenth century westward migration of seaboard colonists exerted pressure on native Americans. At the same time, colonists felt pressure from the presence of British troops remaining in America following the French and Indian War. Colonial officials recognized …

Cranks, Libertarians, And Zealots: An Examination Of Opposition To Jefferson Davis In The Provisional And First Confederate Congresses, Tereal Wayne Edmondson

LSU Master's Theses

While many historians have maintained that the Provisional and First Confederate Congresses both served as legislatures intent on obstructing Jefferson Davis's policies, these southern assemblies actually provided little notable resistance to the president. Congressmen who did oppose Davis's policies never coalesced into a formal opposition. This lack of cohesion resulted from two factors: the Confederacy's eschewal of political parties following secession from the Union and the inability of disgruntled solons to organize an oppositional faction thereafter. When objections to increased centralization of the war effort came, they were from individuals who acted alone or in small factions. Consequently, Davis had …

Dissecting The Columbia: Lewis And Clark West Of The Divide, William L. Lang

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Introduces a special issue of the 'Oregon Historical Quarterly' on the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the area west of the Continental Divide. The issue deals with the explorers' descriptions of the Columbia River Basin and its flora, fauna, native people, and geography; the accuracy of their scientific observations; their geographic discoveries; and other topics.

"More Mighty Than The Waves Of The Sea": Toilers, Tariffs, And The Income Tax Movement, 1880-1913, Ajay K. Mehrotra

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Seasons In Hell: Charles S. Johnson And The 1930 Liberian Labor Crisis, Phillip James Johnson

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In 1930, African American sociologist Charles S. Johnson of Fisk University traveled to the Republic of Liberia as the American member of a League of Nations commission to investigate allegations of slavery and forced labor in that West African nation. In the previous five years, the face of Liberia had changed after the large-scale development of rubber plantations on land leased by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, with headquarters in Akron, Ohio. Political turmoil greeted Johnson in Liberia, an underdeveloped nation teetering on the brink of economic collapse. This dissertation focuses on Johnson’s role as the key member of …

'A Man's World'?: A Study Of Female Workers At Nasa's Kennedy Space C, Nanci Schwartz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

By focusing on women workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this study seeks to understand why women were initially congregated in certain occupations such as clerical work and later moved into non-traditional jobs such as engineering and the sciences. Such an investigation requires careful examination of the changing attitudes towards female workers in technical or non-traditional fields and why and how those attitudes changed over time and the extent to which this occurred. It also attempts to identify areas of continuing concern. The study reveals that several factors contributed to the women's progress in the workplace. These included …

Nebraska Summary 446: Agco Rt135 Powermaxx Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

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Nebraska Summary 521: Agco Rt140a Cvt Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

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Nebraska Summary 447: Agco Rt150 Powermaxx Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

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Test 1845: John Deere 9620t 18 Speed, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

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Tests 2156 & 2157: Case Ih Jx 1060c Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

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Tests 2278 & 2319: Case Ih Jx 1100u Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

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Test 2228: Case Ih Mxu115 Limited Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

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Test 1836a: Case Ih Dx48 Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

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Test 1837: Case Ih Dx 55 Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

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Tests 2248 & 2272: New Holland Tl 90a Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

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Tests 2166 & 2167: New Holland Tn70da Diesel, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

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