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Fortune And Failure - Gold And Silver Smelting In The Colorado Rockies 1861 To 1900, Andrew Mueller

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

This dissertation is a study of small-scale smelting in Colorado during the nineteenth century. Many small smelting enterprises were established throughout the mountains of the state from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s. The smelters helped to revitalize a flagging mining industry by fostering its growth and, consequently, the development of the state before being outcompeted by larger smelting establishments developing in the growing cities on the Front Range. However, the life of these smelters was brief, and the majority failed within a few years. The role of these smelters in Colorado’s history has been largely overlooked but provide a rich …

"Half-Breeds," Squatters, Land Speculators, And Settler Colonialism In The Des Moines-Mississippi Confluence, Matthew Hill

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Americans are accustomed to a standard historical version of American expansion: The United States pushed West, removing Indians in its wake and filled the land with American settlers. This is often seen as a form of settler colonialism. Westward expansion and settler colonialism were much more complicated. They often occurred on the periphery of the American centralized state, proceeding any serious government involvement, and involved a wide mix of culturally indeterminate people. This paper examines westward expansion in the Des Moines-Mississippi Confluence, a 119,000-acre region in what is now southeastern Iowa. At one time or another, Sauk and Meskwaki Indians, …

ผู้หญิงในอุดมคติของรัฐชาติสิงคโปร์ ทศวรรษ 1950–1980, ศุภรดา ด่านเชิดชูเกียรติ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้ศึกษาการประกอบสร้าง “ผู้หญิงในอุดมคติ” ของสิงคโปร์สมัยสร้างชาติระหว่างทศวรรษ 1950–1980 โดยรัฐบาลพรรคกิจประชาภายใต้การนำของลีกวนยู โดยจะวิเคราะห์จากนโยบายเรื่องผู้หญิง และการออกกฎหมายที่มีส่วนในกำหนดบทบาทหน้าที่ทางเพศสภาพของหญิงและชายในสิงคโปร์ รวมถึงการต่อรองระหว่างรัฐและผู้หญิงสิงคโปร์ในช่วงเวลาดังกล่าวที่กระแสสิทธิสตรีกำลังมีอิทธิพลและนำไปสู่การปรับเปลี่ยนอุดมคติรัฐเกี่ยวกับผู้หญิงของสิงคโปร์ วิทยานิพนธ์เล่มนี้จะชี้ให้เห็นว่าการจัดการความสัมพันธ์ทางเพศสภาพระหว่างชายหญิงในพื้นที่ครอบครัวเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของกระบวนการสร้างชาติสิงคโปร์ หลักจริยศาสตร์แบบขงจื๊อที่มีลักษณะแบบปิตาธิปไตยคือแนวคิดสำคัญที่รัฐบาลสิงคโปร์ใช้ในการกำหนดนโยบายเพศสภาพและดำเนินนโยบายเกี่ยวกับผู้หญิง ผู้หญิงถูกกำหนดให้แสดงบทบาทในฐานะแม่และเมีย ส่วนผู้ชายถูกคาดหมายให้ทำงานนอกบ้าน ทั้งนี้ ผู้หญิงในฐานะแม่และเมียตามอุดมคติรัฐในบริบทการสร้างชาติต้องมีคุณลักษณะอันพึงประสงค์อย่างน้อย 3 ประการ ได้แก่ มีการศึกษาดี มีทักษะและความสามารถในการประกอบอาชีพเพื่อตอบสนองนโยบายเศรษฐกิจ และเป็นมารดาที่มีคุณภาพของเยาวชน อย่างไรก็ดี ภายใต้ความเปลี่ยนแปลงทางสังคม โอกาสทางการศึกษาสำหรับผู้หญิงที่เพิ่มขึ้น และกระแสสิทธิสตรี อุดมคติรัฐเกี่ยวกับผู้หญิงที่ประกอบสร้างขึ้นโดยหลักจริยศาสตร์แบบขงจื๊อที่เป็นปิตาธิปไตยก็ได้ถูกต่อรองจากผู้หญิงสิงคโปร์ด้วย

The Intermedial Politics Of Handwritten Newspapers In The 19th-Century U.S., Mark A. Mattes

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Handwritten newspapers appeared in a variety of social contexts in the 19th-century U.S.1 The largest extant portion of 19th-century handwritten newspapers emerged from home and school settings. More far-flung examples include those written aboard ships during exploratory and military voyages. Others were produced within institutions such as hospitals and asylums. Such works were written during times of privation, including life in an army regiment or a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. At other times, handwritten newspapers accompanied efforts at westward settlement and transcontinental railway journeys. Impromptu papers could follow in the wake of natural disasters that knocked out print-based …

The Ghost Story Of The Great War: Spiritualism, Psychical Research And The British War Experience, 1914-1939., Kyle Falcon

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation examines the role of the Great War in shaping British spiritualism and psychical between 1914 and 1939. Spiritualism can be defined as the belief in the survival of the human personality and the possibility of communication with the dead, particularly through the séance. Psychical research represented a more scientifically oriented and research focused approach to the supernatural. These movements originated in the nineteenth century as traditional religious authority waned. Meanwhile, scientists had harnessed unseen forces to make wireless communications possible, while others probed the mysterious world of the unconscious mind through trance. Spiritualism and psychical research flourished in …

Book Reviews

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

A Notorious Woman: Anne Royall in Jacksonian America by Elizabeth J. Clapp

Melinda Meador

Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson by Timothy B. Smith

John Ridge

Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois by Kerry Pimblott

George Humphreys

Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist by William E. Ellis

Melony Shemberger

Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men: A Reader’s Companion by Jonathan S. Cullick

Constance Alexander

A New History of Kentucky by James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend

George Humphreys

Heroes of Peace – A …

Meetings Of The Jackson Purchase Historical Society 2018-2019

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Meetings of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society 2018-2019

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

President’S Report 2018-2019

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

President’s Report 2018-2019

Bill Mulligan

Editor’S Remarks

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Editor’s Remarks

James S. Humphreys

The Black Patch Tobacco Wars’ Effects On African Americans And Women

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Black Patch Tobacco Wars’ Effects on African Americans and Women

Richard Dwayne Parker

Dr. Page In World War I

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Dr. Page in World War I

Berry Craig

Growing Up In West Kentucky During The Great Depression And The Early Days Of World War Ii: An Interview With Thelma Powell Of Carlisle County

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Growing Up in West Kentucky during the Great Depression and the Early Days of World War II: An Interview with Thelma Powell of Carlisle County

Victoria D. Beasley

Using Oral History: Two Projects And Lessons Learned

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Using Oral History: Two Projects and Lessons Learned

Melony Shemberger

Perpetuating The Lost Cause: The Misinformation Campaign Of The United Daughters Of The Confederacy In Kentucky, 1895-1925

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Perpetuating the Lost Cause: The Misinformation Campaign of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Kentucky, 1895-1925

Nicholas Jackson

Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins Of American Empire, Kate Bjork

Hamline Faculty and Staff Books and Publications

Traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army's conquests of what its soldiers called "Indian Country" generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America's new island territories following the War of 1898. Bjork follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled - Hugh Lenox Scott, Robert Lee Bullard, and John J. Pershing - internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott's ethnographic knowledge and experience …

Scientific Islanders: Pacific Peoples, American Scientists, And The Desire To Understand The World, 1800-1860, Roberto Jesus Diaz

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Between 1800 and 1860, Pacific Islanders sought answers to questions about the mechanics and origins of the universe, just as Americans did. But the systems of thought created by Natives addressing these matters generally would not have been considered "scientific" by Americans. Pacific Islanders and Americans, nevertheless, created extensive scientific traditions to systematically perceive, understand, and explain the nature of existence. These systems were rooted in religion, social dynamics, and other cultural norms, and manifested themselves in writing, artwork, explorations, and technologies that benefited their societies. Thus, this Thesis argues that the practice of scientific methods was not simply a …

San Millán De La Cogolla Y La Celebración Pública Del Idioma: Memorialización Prospectiva De La Lengua En La Transición Española, José Del Valle

Publications and Research

Este artículo tiene por objeto contribuir al cuestionamiento de las políticas consensuales que presidieron el periodo transicional en España empleando para ello un ángulo de análisis glotopolítico. Para ello, toma como caso de estudio el metalenguaje desplegado en las celebraciones y efemérides transicionales relacionadas con las famosas glosas custodiadas en San Millán de la Cogolla. Este revela su apropiación nacionalista por parte de distintos poderes académicos, políticos e institucionales.

The Ghosts Of Mier: Violence In A Mexican Frontier Community During The Nineteenth Century, Jamie Starling

History Faculty Publications

On April 23, 1852, Ramona de la Peña became a widow for the second time when she buried Eusebio García at the Inmaculada Concepción Parish of Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas. The priest who conducted the burial, Father José Luis Gonzaga García, had ministered to her family over the previous thirteen years and baptized five of the couple’s children. He christened their youngest, Gregorio, about a year earlier. On the day of the burial, the priest wrote a sacramental record that described Eusebio García’s death “in the hands of the Americans” (en manos de los americanos). He was one of eight Mexicans …

Immigration, Identity, And Genealogy: A Case Study, Thomas Daniel Knight

History Faculty Publications

This paper examines the life and experiences of a 19th-century immigrant from the British Isles to the United States and his family. It examines his reasons for immigrating, as well as his experiences after arrival. In this case, the immigrant chose to create a new identity for himself after immigration. Doing so both severed his ties with his birth family and left his American progeny without a clear sense of identity and heritage. The essay uses a variety of sources, including oral history and folklore, to investigate the immigrant’s origins and examine how this uncertainty shaped the family’s history in …

Gothic Identity And The ‘Othering’ Of Jews In Seventh-Century Spain, Erica Buchberger

History Faculty Publications

In 589, Reccared, king of the Visigoths in Spain, converted from Arian to Catholic Christianity. Arianism was banned, and after a brief period which saw the repression of rebellions, eliminated from the kingdom. All Goths were required to become Catholic. This watershed in Visigothic history both necessitated and facilitated a renegotiation of the parameters of Gothic identity. The entire kingdom was affected: the ruling Visigoths, the small population of recently conquered Sueves, and the Hispano-Romans who were left under the rule of the Goths when the Western Roman Empire fell apart.^[1] This Roman population also included some Jews. While …

Manipulating The New Hampshire Mail: Political Power And The American Postal Service, 1792-1829, Kelly Pedersen

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

Housing Along The Brooklyn Waterfront: A Story Of Shipping, Industry, And Immigrants, Kurt C. Schlichting

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Skirting The Law: Women In Vice During U.S. Prohibition In South Texas, 1900-1933, Carolina Monsivais

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This Dissertation explores both women's participation in the vice industry north of the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas and the ways in which women were policed. The Dissertation analyzes the interactions that occurred between law enforcement agents and the women they arrested, primarily ethnic Mexican women. This analysis illuminates law enforcement tactics that were honed during this era through the interactions that agents had with women who worked in vice industries. I also argue that women in this industry demonstrated knowledge, agency, and resistance. In addition, it created avenues of work for women, particularly in South Texas. However, studies examining …

Indigenous Masculinities And The Tarascan Borderlands In Sixteenth-Century Michoacán, Daniel Santana

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This Dissertation studies the hypermasculine narratives related to the expansion of the Tarascan state and its borderlands in early colonial Michoacán. Colonial texts such as the Relación de Michoacán and the relaciones geográficas depict the ascendance of the powerful Uacúsecha dynasty whose solar deity and male rulers oversaw the conquest of the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin and succeeded in holding back the Mexica (Aztecs) from penetrating their territories. The Dissertation pays particular attention to how contemporary political events, namely the Spanish conquest of Michoacán, endemic warfare in center-west Mexico, and political rivalries amongst Indigenous elites, influenced these accounts. Consequently, these narratives …

What Do Unions Want? When New York State’S Public Employee Unions Turned Down The Right To Strike, Marc Kagan

Publications and Research

In a 1977 package of proposed revisions of New York State’s “Taylor Law,” which governs public employee labor-management relations and prohibits work stoppages, unions were offered the right to strike, while managers would have gained the right to unilaterally change contract terms at expiration. In effect, this deal would have made state labor relations more similar to bargaining in private industry. Offered an expanded ability to strike, the municipal unions instead opted for defensive stability.

Paper Presented At The National Council Of Preservation Education Conference, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Historic preservation’s principles and practices directly correlate and support the charge of librarians and archivists to provide resources for the public and contribute to scholarship and community building. This paper, presented at the National Council of Preservation Education conference in Denver, Colorado (Oct. 10-12, 2019), will discuss the research methodologies, historical context and preservation issues of a recovery project of an historic site in New Mexico.

Belén Plaza Vieja And Colonial Church Preservation And Interpretive Plan, Samuel Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The vision and mission of the Belén Plaza Vieja Preservation Committee is to recover the buried and forgotten history of the town of Belén’s first church and plaza and recreate to some extent the “Plaza Vieja” site to be a vibrant social and educational destination so that local community members and visitors can discover and reclaim this important historical treasure as a vibrant social and spiritual space. It is hoped that this preservation and interpretive plan serves to inform the Belén Plaza Vieja Colonial Church site property owners and stakeholders of possible options and strategies towards a coordinated effort to …

The Evolution Of Sunset Magazine's Cooking Department: The Accommodation Of Men's And Women's Cooking In The 1930s, Jennifer Hoolhorst Pagano

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The Western regional magazine Sunset has been published under a series of owners and publishers since 1898. In 1928, Sunset was purchased by Lawrence Lane, a Midwestern magazine executive who transformed it from a failing turn-of-the-century, general interest publication about the West, into a successful magazine about living in the West for the Western middle-class. Sunset had always been a magazine for men and women, and one that appealed to both male and female intellectuals at the time Lane purchased it. Lane and his editors attempted to interject more rigid middle-class ideals into a magazine that had espoused ideas that …