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Book Review: Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Accounts Of Swiss Immigrants To The United States., Jeffrey L. Burkhart

Swiss American Historical Society Review

This fascinating anthology of letters written by immigrants to the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a thoroughly engrossing text. What emerges from the various groupings of correspondence is a picture of a hum~ odyssey that is often of heroic proportions. The immense courage to uproot oneself and voyage to an unknown and in some instances unfriendly environment is amply demonstrated as one reads through the sixty-three letters that comprise this collection.

Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Switzerland: 2050, Natalie Jomini

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Today, in the year 2050, Switzerland has changed immensely over the past fifty years. From watches to robots, Switzerland has redefined technology. Advances and difficulties overcome have propelled the Swiss to world leadership in many areas. Swiss industry, although maintaining past trends, has championed and led the world into an era of Artificial Humanoidal Intelligence (AHi). This robotics movement has changed the world's standard of living. Swiss hero, Maggie Meier, developed one of the first artificial humanoids, and the industry has taken off since then. In addition, Swiss continue their supremacy in pharmaceutical production. The country has pursued a vigorous …

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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Mari Sandoz: Portrait Of A Swiss American Author, Laura Villiger

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Land of Promise, where the gold flows, where buffaloes roam in big herds attracting adventurous hunters, where Redskins are chased and defeated by cowboy heroes-these are some of the ideas people in the 19th century commonly held about the American West. Even today, the Old West is often associated with the same pictures. But we also know today that these pictures largely belonged to a myth--a myth propagated in Europe as well as in the so-called 'civilized' East of the American continent. It helped to take hold of the Western territory not only in people's minds, but also in reality.

Book Review: The New Switzerland Problems And Policies, Nicole Butz

Swiss American Historical Society Review

This volume, edited by Rolf Kieser and Kurt R. Spillmann, consists of twentyeight essays written by a group of Swiss scholars and officials. Originally intended as a new edition of the 1978 volume Modern Switzerland (edited by J. Murray Luck, Lukas F. Burckhardt, and Hans Haug), The New Switzerland nonetheless differs significantly in content and perspective from its earlier counterpart. As noted by the editors in the preface, the book does not attempt to provide its readers with a comprehensive account of Switzerland; rather, it seeks to inform a broad international audience through "a discussion of the present and future …

Book Review: Exploring My Life: The Memoirs Of Felix P. Bentz, Chalice Wilkerson

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In his foreword, Felix P. Bentz explains that the impetus for writing his memoirs came from the receipt of a similar effort by a colleague in the oil business. As an international oil geologist, Bentz had the opportunity to realize his dream of traveling the world. Added as a postscript but perhaps more effective as a prologue is his credo written at the age of 30 and the beginning of his career. Bentz states his goal to live a full life roaming the globe and using his gifts to reproduce his thoughts, impressions and experiences while avoiding ignorance, intolerance and …

Nichts Vergessen Nur Verschwiegen. Das Massaker Von Gröden 1945 Und Die Oss-Mission "Tacoma", Gerald Steinacher

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Am 15. Mai 1985, genau 40 Jahre nach dem Auftakt zum sogenannten "Massaker von Gräden", erschien unter dem Titel ,,Auch das geschah vor vierzig Jahren" folgende Anzeige in der Bozner Tageszeitung Dolomiten:

"Nach Kriegsende, am 15. Mai 1945, der Morgen war gerade angebrochen, wurden jUnf unbescholtene, ehrenwerte Männer - Vater Adolf Senoner- Vastlt, Bürgermeister und Kaufmann, Lehrer Engelbert Ploner, Kau.fmann Gabriel Rijfeser, Lehrer Pepi Pitscheider und der Angestellte Kosmas Demetz - aus dem Schlaf gerissen und von den Partisanen der Provinz Belluno entfUhrt: sie wurden auf brutalste Weise im Wald von Pescul an der Forcella Staulanza gefoltert und ermordet. …

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Bullington, Brittany. A History of the Piano Girl and Her Accomplishments: Women and Music in Nineteenth-Century England
• Ellis, Joseph. The Howl of the Mob: Adapting to Violence in Somalia
• Farrar, Mary. Expectations of Family Physicians: Perceptions of the Doctor and Patient
• Freeman, Tracy. Martha Gellhorn: The Hemingway Years
• Guillory, Anne. The Flemish Mare: Anne of Cleves
• Jordan, Pat. Marketing a Deadly Addiction to Youths
• Marx, Sarah. Comic Books: Carnage in Living Color
• May, …

New Wine In Old Kings: British Wine Bottle Names And The Old Testament, Steven W. Holloway

Libraries

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Pratiques Funéraires Et Mentalités Paiennes, Bailey Young

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

A l'occasion de ce colloque de commemoration du bapteme de Clovis etde reflexion sur son contexte, ses causes et ses consequences, j' ai choisi derevenir, suivant !'invitation de Michel Rouche, aux terres de chasse de mathese. Elles sont en fait des terres de cimetiere, et aussi des terres d' affrontement- aux yeux de bien des archeologues merovingiens - entre traditionsfuneraires pa·iennes, enracinees dans un passe plus ou moins profond, et nouvellespratiques chretiennes, qui avaient l'avenir devant elles. Permettez-moi,en guise d'introduction, de vous faire remonter aux premiers jours de l'etudescientifique des sepultures de l'Antiquite tardive et du haut Moyen Age.

Roussel: The Flute And Extramusical Reference, Wendell Dobbs

Music Faculty Research

The article Roussel: The Flute and Extramusical Reference reveals the literary side of Roussel's flute music.

Britain And The French Resistance 1940-1942 : A False Start, Laurie West Van Hook

Master's Theses

During the Second World War, the French Resistance failed to unify or work effectively with Charles de Gaulle, the movement's symbolic leader. The Resistance maintained a troublesome relations with Great Britain. Neither side overcame a series of conflicts, battling egos, and internal confusion. As a result, Britain and the Resistance never developed a mature relationship that could aid the Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 (Torch) and Normandy in June 1955 (Overlord). The British lacked a unified policy toward the French Resistance. Acting out a sense of desperation and isolation, the British clung …

M.J. Daunton, Ed., Charity, Welfare And Self-Interest In The English Past, John D. Ramsbottom

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Charity, Welfare and Self-Interest in the English Past"

'Judith' And The Rhetoric Of Heroism In Anglo‐Saxon England, Christopher R. Fee

English Faculty Publications

The Old English Judith differs from the Liber Judith of the Vulgate at several crucial points, and in one particularly important way. In the Vulgate version of the story, Judith is a heroine in every sense of the word: she is a tropological symbol of Chastity at battle with Licentiousness, an allegorical symbol of the Church in its constant and eventually triumphant battle with Satan, and an inspirational figure who infuses her warriors with much needed courage and confidence; but the Vulgate Judith is also, in a very real sense, the agent by which God's will is executed and the …

Nutrition And The Early-Medieval Diet, Kathy L. Pearson

History Faculty Publications

The food supply of the temperate lands of early-medieval western Europe, and the ways in which its peoples dealt with the central problem of feeding themselves, has been subjected to a variety of interpretations in recent years. Vern Bullough and Cameron Campbell's study of the medieval diet and female longevity concluded that early-medieval women suffered from iron deficiencies triggered jointly by poor nutrition and frequent childbearing and that these deficiencies contributed substantially to their average early age of death. Ann Hagen's overview of Anglo-Saxon patterns of food production and consumption suggested that most of the early English population routinely lived …

The Autumn Celebrations Of The Ritual Calendar Year In The Later-Stuart Period, Alexander James Dove

Masters Theses

This thesis discusses the patterns in the celebrations of the autumn ritual calendar of the later-Stuart period. It focuses on the annual celebrations of the Gunpowder Treason and Plot (5th of November) and the Anniversary of the Accession of Queen Elizabeth (17th of November). For comparison, the Lord Mayor's Show (29th of October) is studied. The central theme of this thesis is to distinguish between the customs and traditions of the two dominant cultures of the later-Stuart period: elite and non-elite.

This thesis is broken down into three chapters. The first chapter discusses the November celebrations of the later-Stuart period. …

James Tyrrell, John Locke, And Robert Filmer: Ideas On Property In Late Seventeenth Century England, Christopher Chatlos Strangeman

Masters Theses

In this thesis, I examine the political theories of Sir Robert Filmer, John Locke, and James Tyrrell and, in turn, compare their respective conceptions of property which are at the foundation of their political theories. This political debate about property must be set amongst the political circumstances of the exclusion crisis. Arising from the Whig-Tory division, which arose in part from the Popish Plot, Filmer, Locke, and Tyrrell reveal the ideas of the parties they represented. Locke and Tyrrell, as Whig representatives, refuted the patriarchal theory of Filmer's Patriarcha, representative of the Tory party. In refuting Filmer, Locke and …

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Julius Strandberg And "The Almost White Child", Hans J. Strandberg

The Bridge

Why did more than 50 million people leave Europe for the United States in the second part of the 19th century? To understand the largest migration in history you have to look to the hopelessly poor living conditions which many people in the Old World lived under. To people living in an overpopulated and underpaid. Europe the idea of going to America where nothing was impossible but where "everything" was possible was immensely attractive.

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Christian Madsen- A Dane In The "Wild West", Sybil D. Needham

The Bridge

I never tire of hearing stories about Danish immigrants coming to America in the 1800' s. Their courage fills me with admiration because few of them would ever see their homeland or families again. My own great-grandparents Jens and Kristine Bagge arrived in June of 1863. Kristine died a few years later leaving five small children behind. We know she was lonely for Denmark.

Book Review, Rit S. Wengel

The Bridge

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As You Bend The Twig, So Grows The Tree, Borge M. Christensen

The Bridge

"Left to go to America," teacher Johannes Frederik

Christensen wrote opposite Sophie Pauline Christine

Pedersen in the June, 1884 Kindertofte village school's attendance

and examination class register. For Sophie, daughter of

laborer P. Christian Pedersen, as for the other 1,261 emigrants

under sixteen that left Denmark in 1884 with their families,1

her first meeting with education would greatly contribute to

any success in the new country. The Danish school system

and the village teacher would cast long shadows.