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"Ordinary Talents And Extraordinary Perseverance": The Life Of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, David Bruce

Dissertations (1934 -)

Born into a gentry family with roots in the Society of Friends, the evangelical social conscience of Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) was developed as he operated a brewery in Spitalfields, perhaps London's poorest parish. He was instrumental in raising funds for poor relief and establishing soup and bread kitchens there during the winter of 1816-1817. His interest and research on penal discipline brought him national prominence and led to a parliamentary seat which he held for nearly two decades. Buxton's association with noted activist William Wilberforce (1759-1833) led to his own involvement in the anti-slavery movement, a cause he fiercely …

A Window Into Their Lives: The Women Of The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, 1725-1765, Julie Elizabeth Leonard

Dissertations (1934 -)

This study is an examination of laboring class women of Paris during the early eighteenth century. These women did not leave written records of their lives, so information about them comes from legal and judicial records, specifically the papers of the commissaires de police and the records of criminal cases that went before the Châtelet, one of the royal courts of Paris. By examining the challenges and conflicts that individual women faced, we can better understand how laboring-class women of eighteenth-century Paris successfully navigated the legal and customary restrictions that were part of the patriarchal system under which they lived. …

Race And Redemption: Racial And Ethnic Evolution In Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

With its origins in modern Theosophy, Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy is built around a racial view of human nature arranged in a hierarchical framework. This article examines the details of the Anthroposophical theory of cosmic and individual redemption and draws out the characteristic assumptions about racial and ethnic difference that underlie it. Particular attention is given to textual sources unavailable in English, which reveal the specific features of Steiner’s account of “race evolution” and “soul evolution.” Placing Steiner’s worldview in its historical and ideological context, the article highlights the contours of racial thinking within a prominent alternative spiritual movement and delineates …

Rudolf Steiner And The Jewish Question, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

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International Armament As A Threat To World Peace, David Quabius

Bachelors’ Theses

In this thesis I will try to prove that International Armaments are a threat to world peace. When· a nation prepares for war the men who manufacture guns and munitions do a great business. And when war breaks out they really make money. They are willing to sell arms to anybody that is willing to buy. Therefore, they often encourage war so as to sell their implements of destruction.

Events Which Led To The Conquest Of Ethiopia By Italy, Raymond Adam Mazalewski

Bachelors’ Theses

It is a tremendous task trying to read through all the matter which has been published on the Italo-Ethiopian conflict. One must be careful in his reading so that he will be able to separate the material into the different catagories. Because the available information is tinged with onesided view points, fanatical view points, not to mention propaganda from both sides. As the result, it becomes difficult at times to discriminate between bias and true facts.

Napoleon's Real "Waterloo" Was Moscow, Inez Fuller

Bachelors’ Theses

To begin with, before setting out upon a particular scholarly duty, it is well to clarify, in as concrete a manner as it is possible the problem confronting one, and the objective which is to be the desired end of the re­ search. Applying this :principle to the present work the problem to be solved is that of the real "Waterloo" in Napoleon's career.

Richard Ii And History, Gertrude Mulaney

Bachelors’ Theses

In the fourteenth century Edward the Third of England,

and his Queen Philippa of Hainault became the parents of

children who were to stir England and the Continent into a

hot box for centuries to come. Although an able leader on

the battlefield, and a great promoter of England’s welfare

at home and abroad, Edward’s personal life was not exemplary.

He associated with corrupt men and women; he indulged in great extravagances, and carried them to impossible excesses. Near the end of his life his government fell into disorder and unfortunately Edward was incapable physically and mentally of correcting any …

The Age Of Louis Xiv, Floyd Ronzani

Bachelors’ Theses

The illustrious age of Louis XIV has always been a source of vast material for those historians who take interest in dealing with it. Voluminous works have attempted to portray the many phases of human activity that is identified with the period of the Grand Monarch. From the French Court, at the time the Absolute Monarch was destined to supremacy, there came progressive measures, especially in the humanitarian spheres of Politics, Art and Literature, all of which contributed to the adventure of releasing creative ideas from the great minds of the Age. With evidence of brilliancy in the period, the …

The Fall And Rise Of Poland (1772-1918), Jerome Joseph Pelkowski

Bachelors’ Theses

Poland's impatience during the period of her decline had made her the tool of foreign powers, a pawn in the game of European diplomacy. The part that Russia played in the Seven Years Nar and the War of the Polish Succession made her the predominant power in Poland. Empress Catherine the Second of Russia knew how to make the most of that position. Of great ability and boundless ambition, it was her dream, by the conquest of Poland, Sweden and Turkey, to make of the Baltic and Black Seas Russian lakes. The Seven Years War, she thought, had put the …

The French Revolution And Its Effect On 18th Century Europe, Ralph Renzel

Bachelors’ Theses

The France of the old regime was a very great and ancient structure -in building which fifty generations had been engaged for more than fifteen centuries. Each of these generations had left its mark upon it, always adding to the work of the past and hardly ever pulling down or removing anything. Moreover, its plan was confused, its styles were incongruous, and its parts lacked proportion. Some portions had been abandoned and threatened to fall into ruin; others were inconvenient; others were too luxurious. But, taking it all in all, the total effect was rich, the facade was imposing, and …

The Black Prince In France, Walter Charles Kitzerow

Bachelors’ Theses

When in 1337 the One Hundred Years' War no longer contented itself with casting dark shadows before, but actually reached its inception, he who was to become the most prominent figure in the conflict was, as yet, a lad of only eight years. Very likely no one but the boy himself, later to become known as the Black Prince, entertained the thought that he would play a conspicuous part in the struggle.

Irish Learning And Its Effect On The Carolingian Renaissance, Jane Donald

Bachelors’ Theses

When the Roman Empire disintegrated and its learning was, for the time, buried by an avalanche of barbarism, Ireland alone of the many provinces which had shared in its commerce and learning, was undisturbed. Ireland had a mission; it was to be the haven in which classical learning was kept alive and it was to be the means, when the time was ripe, of carrying this culture throughout Europe.

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 …

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 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.

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.”

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 …

Emperor Worship Among The Romans, John Orth Riedl

Bachelors’ Theses

Rome was always a cosmopolitan city. She as conceived through a mingling of peoples and was nurtured in her cradle of seven hills on the cream of the surrounding tribes. She speedily outgrew her infant world, and thriving on the food of other races, soon stretched her aged length across the Tiber Riverbed with arms extending east far inland and west for miles along the road to Ostia.

The Triple Entente, Richard J. Plucinski

Bachelors’ Theses

There is a philosophical axiom which asserts, that all things must have their physical, adequate proportional cause. This wonderful world of ours with its wonderful beauty, with its physical laws, with its chemical properties has also its cause. Today's and yesterday's pseudo-scientists were striving to prove that this wonderful universe came into existence without a proportionate, physical and adequate cause, assuming that evolution or chance was its cause. They have met obstinate opposition, their theories were considered as imaginations and today they are covered with oblivion. And as all things have their causes in the physical world, so too in …