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Russian Organized Crime And The National Security Of The United States, Jessica Nelson

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

This thesis examines the impact of Russian organized crime on the national security of the United States. It begins by defining why Russian organized crime should be of concern to U.S. policymakers addressing the effects of Russian organized crime on the U.S. economy, national security, and domestic law enforcement. The thesis then analyzes the evolution of Russian organized crime from its emergence during the Soviet Union, through its growth during privatization, to its structural transformation in the modern era. This analysis establishes the fundamental principles of any potential U.S. policy on Russian organized crime and prompts several policy recommendations for …

Maroon Societies In Brazil, Jamaica And Mexico, Amanda Moore

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

While many scholars concentrate their research on the enslavement of Africans, there are other stories to tell of Africans peoples in theWestern Hemisphere. The Maroons were fugitive slaves who developed their own communities throughout theAmericas. They were diverse peoples unified by their goal of freedom and self-determination.

This Honors Thesis Project explores the historical situation of the Brazilian, Jamaican and Mexican Maroons and elucidates the similarities and differences between them. The aspects of Maroon life explored here are: lifestyle, leadership and politics. These three countries were selected to illustrate the diversity within the experiences of enslaved Africans throughout the Americas. …

Pakistan: Teetering On The Brink Of Islamic Revolution?, Muhammad Ahmad Yunas

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Predictors Of Earnings For Mexican Americans In The Midwest, Rosalie Torres Stone, Bandana Purkayastha

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Much of the research on Mexican Americans and earnings has focused on either national samples or on states such as California and Texas. Even though Mexican Americans have become more visible in the Midwest, we know very little about their earnings in the Midwest. Using an individual level sample consisting of data on 1,807 Mexican Americans from the 2000 Integrated 1% Public Use Microdata Series, we examine the extent to which human capital, family status and industry concentration predict earnings. Multivariate analyses reveal that education and years in the U.S. are positively associated with earnings. However, Mexican American women yield …

Review Of Caddo Verb Morphology By Lynette R. Melnar, David Rood

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

When I was a graduate student on the West Coast, we used to playa little game to make fun of East Coast formal linguistics by asking each other, "What would transformational grammar look like if Chomsky spoke X instead of English?" Obviously, if Caddo were X, the answer would not involve tree diagrams, phrase structures, or transformations. Things haven't changed very much. Faced with describing a language like Caddo, a linguist receives virtually no help from the massive literature on syntactic and morphological theory from the last forty or fifty years.

Review Of Circle Of Goods: Women, Work, And Welfare In A Reservation Community By Tressa Herman, Alice Littlefield

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This slim volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary reservation economies in the Northern Plains, a subject that has received insufficient attention from anthropologists. Berman's narration demonstrates the intersection of kinship, the informal economy, ceremonial exchanges or goods, government assistance programs, and the cash economy on the reservation, home to the affiliated Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes who were settled there in the 1860s. Her analysis addresses several themes: the circulation of goods within a symbolic system of social and power relations; the centrality of women in kinship and community relations: and the reorganization of reservation economy …

Review Of The Hell Creek Formation And The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary In The Northern Great Plains: An Integrated Continental Record Of The End Of The Cretaceous Edited By Joseph H. Hartman, Kirk R. Johnson, And Douglas J. Nichols, Russell Jacobson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Hell Creek Formation (especially near the Fork Peck Reservoir and the Cedar Creek Anticline in east-central Montana) has been extensively studied over the years to evaluate changes in terrestrial floras and faunas across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary. The research round in this volume, however, contains important new data from the lesser studied eastern outcrop area of western North Dakota, South Dakota, and nearby areas, along with new analyses of data from the well-studied areas around Fort Peck Reservoir. The compilation or new research is based on years of field studies that, for the most part, have not been published. …

Review Of Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties And Contemporary Controversies Edited By Bruce E. Johansen, Taiawagi Helton

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Even casual observers know of disputes between Natives and non-Natives over governmental authority or natural resources. In the nearly forty years since tribes gained direct access to federal courts, they have been pursuing their rights with increasing fervor. With rare exceptions, those rights are declined in a treaty. Indeed. treaties provide the foundation for the hulk or the relationship between Tribal Nations and the United States and remain a vibrant source of tribal, international, and federal law. Nevertheless only a small fraction of the general public understands the text of these documents. Interpreting treaty language requires an understanding of the …

Review Of Farm Communities At The Crossroads: Challenge And Resistance Edited By Harry P. Diaz, Joann Jaffe, And Robert Stirling, Kenneth Bessant

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Farm Communities at the Crossroads is a collection of works by twenty-nine authors dealing with the "transformations in farming and farm communities." The metaphor of a "crossroads" is aptly invoked to draw attention to the complex overlay of social, economic, political, and knowledge processes affecting rural society. The two themes of "challenge" and "resistance" are central to the conceptual organization of the hook, which incorporates issues such as the changing nature of farm work, rural restructuring, community development, the farm crisis, technological change, and agricultural policy development. The volume contains twenty-six articles organized into seven sections, the first of which …

Review Of Faces Of The Great Plains: Prairie Wildlife Photographs And Field Notes By Bob Gress, Text By Paul A. Johnsgard, James H. Shaw

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Bob Gress, director or the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita, provides, an extraordinary set or photographs for this coffee-table book. The text is by Paul Johnsgard, emeritus professor or biology and the author or more than forty books. A color map on page xiv showing the distributions or grassland types follows the recent trend toward limiting the shortgrass prairies to regions south or the Nebraska-South Dakota state line. The opening sentence defies the common perception or the Great Plains as simply "flyover" country and sets the tone for the text: "Few geographic regions or North America offer a greater …

Review Of The Tos Hand Hook Of Texas Birds By Mark W. Lockwood And Brush Freeman, Kent Rylander

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Several authoritative checklists of Texas birds have been published since the first one in 1912. As is typical of most checklists, all appeared in the conventional narrative format--a tradition for checklists that seems impossible to give up, even though range maps have long been used effectively in bird books. Now, with the publication of Lockwood and Freeman's Texas Ornithological Society volume, we have at last a Texas checklist that allows us the convenience of referring to shaded distribution maps.
Maybe narratives are more "scientific" than maps. But are they really? Listing the counties that border the range of a species …

Review Of Remington Schuyler's West: Artistic Visions Of Cowboys And Indians Compiled And With Preface And Introduction By Henry W. Hamilton And Jean Tyree Hamilton, Marie Watkins

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Henry W. Hamilton and Jean Tyree Hamilton's Remington Schuyler's West establishes their friend Remington Schuyler (1884-1955) in the annals of American illustration and introduces his long forgotten work to a new public. This amply illustrated book is a pleasant read for anyone who appreciates popular culture, particularly regarding Western subjects.

Organized into three parts, the book opens with the Hamiltons' brief biography of Schuyler (illustrator, writer, associate of the Boy Scout movement, and instructor of illustration). Although written for a general audience, more could have been added here since biographical details round out the picture of Schuyler in the context …

Review Of Not Just Any Land: A Personal And Literary Journey Into The American Grasslands By John Price, Walter Isle

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Price reads and travels his way into the grasslands, the prairies, in his fine new book. He reads four landscape writers-Dan O'Brien, Linda Hasselstrom, William Least Heat-Moon, and Mary Swander-who "commit to a place in such social and ecological peril" as the grasslands. Price also travels to each writer's "place" to talk and try to get a better sense of the ways each has "become native" to a particular geography. Those journeys are also Price's own immersion in the grasslands in hopes of discovering how he himself can be native.

In South Dakota, he reads Dan O'Brien's Equinox (1997) …

"Vanishing" Indians? Cultural Persistence On Display At The Omaha World's Fair Of 1898, Josh Clough

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nebraska's Indian population exploded in the summer of 1898, but it was not due to natural increase. More than 500 Indians representing twenty-three tribes came to Omaha as part of the United States Indian Bureau's exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During their three-month stay at the world's fair, Indians engaged in dancing, feasting, visiting, and earned money performing sham battles. In doing so they demonstrated not only the vibrancy and resilience of Native American cultures, but also the ineffectiveness of the government's assimilation policy. The Indian Bureau spent $40,000 for the Indian Congress (as this gathering of Native peoples came …

Review Of Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story Of Survival By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Norma C. Wilson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Allison Hedge Coke's intimate narrative details her journey through suffering to wholeness. Her story will inspire anyone who has faced adversity. Hedge Coke was the "extra girl" whom her schizophrenic mother said she had "hated since the day she was born." The author suffered depression and suicide attempts, drug and alcohol addiction, rape and physical assaults, discrimination and poverty.

At the same time, Hedge Coke's insight is luminous: "congenital memory that of belonging by nature to landscapes runs the deepest of all the rivers of the earth." Her book remembers many landscapes-from North Carolina, the Tsalagi (Cherokee) homeland, to Texas, …

Review Of Before Lewis And Clark: The Story Of The Chouteaus, The French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier By Shirley Christian, C. David Rice

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Shirley Christian's account of the St. Louis Chouteau family's activities and contributions on the trans-Mississippi frontier in the century between 1763 and 1865 breaks little new ground, but its publication does coincide nicely with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Historians will find much that is familiar combined with a sympathetic presentation of the principal figures of the Chouteau clan: Pierre Laclede; his successors, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau Sr.; and Pierre Chouteau Jr. and A. P. Chouteau of the third generation. The general reader will encounter a condensed version of the scholarly work of many decades and glimpse …

Table Of Contents- Spring 2005

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 25 / Number 2 / Spring 2005

CONTENTS

"VANISHING" INDIANS?: CULTURAL PERSISTENCE ON DISPLAY AT THE OMAHA WORLD'S FAIR OF 1898

ADVERSARIES AND ALLIES: RIVAL NATIONAL SUFFRAGE GROUPS AND THE 1882 NEBRASKA WOMAN SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN

WITHER THE FRUITED PLAIN: THE LONG EXPEDITION AND THE DESCRIPTION OF THE "GREAT AMERICAN DESERT"

REVIEW ESSAY: DIFFERENT WAYS OF VIEWING A MONUMENT

BOOK REVIEWS

BOOK NOTES

NOTES AND NEWS

Review Of The Great Sioux Uprising: Rebellion On The Plains, August-September 1862 By Jerry Keenan, Paul N. Beck

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With only eighty-nine pages of text, Jerry Keenan's The Great Sioux Uprising was not meant to be the definitive work on the Minnesota's Dakota War of 1862, but rather an overview of the conflict for the general public. As such, the book is a worthy effort. Keenan, the author of several volumes dealing with the Indian wars in the West, adequately covers the issues and events of the war.

Keenan, writing in an easy, reader-friendly style, first gives brief biographical sketches of the various individuals involved in the conflict, followed by a good general overview of the various reasons for …

Review Of High River And The Times: An Alberta Community And Its Weekly Newspaper, 1905-1966 By Paul Voisey, Bert Deyell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Paul Voisey investigates the town's storyteller rather than the story of High River. Dismissing postmodernist media theories of communication as too abstract, Voisey opts for informal textual analysis: his personal interpretation. The pages of the High River Times, supplemented with personal papers of the proprietors and archives at the Glenbow Museum, evidence a cycle common to small town prairie history: boosterism, economic hardship, reappraisal, and reactionary rural idealism.

The Times initially declares the potential of High River in term of progress, says Voisey; the local weekly newspaper becomes a publicity agent for speculators, governments, and railways. But economic and …

Book Notes- Spring 2005

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Book Notes

The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush Popping Cow Waddy

Jim Courtright of Fort Worth: His Life and Legend

Native American Literatures: An Introduction

Charles Fritz: An Artist with the Corps of Discovery

Saskatchewan Writers: Lives Past and Present

The Art of American Arms Makers: Marketing Guns, Ammunition and Western Adventure during the Golden Age of Illustration

Nebraska Simply Beautiful

Adversaries And Allies Rival National Suffrage Groups And The 1882 Nebraska Woman Suffrage Campaign, Carmen Heider

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In September 1882, Nebraska was the setting for a significant moment in the history of the United States women's rights movement: the two rival suffrage organizations, the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) and the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), both held their annual conventions in Omaha, an event Sally Roesch Wagner describes as "an unprecedented move." Furthermore, the AWSA and NWSA "act[ed] in conjunction with the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association" to schedule speakers during the 1882 campaign. Susan B. Anthony even participated in the AWSA thirteenth annual meeting held in Omaha in 1882. "I feel at home," she said, "on …

Review Of The Texas Indians By David La Vere, Thomas R. Hester

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This volume is an overview of Texas Indian cultures from a historian's perspective. It suffers, in places, from both technical and interpretative errors often made by non-specialists trying to synthesize broad topics in anthropology and archaeology. For example, the author states that some Texas Paleo Indians used spear points with "blood gutters," a theory of the fluting on Folsom points that has not been seriously considered in the last sixty years. At the other end of the time scale, the author opines that miss ionized Texas Indians gave up stone tool use manufacture when they had access to (with "amazement …

Review Of Writing Her Own Life: Imogene Welch, Western Rural Schoolteacher By Mary Clearman Blew, Linda Karell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the concluding pages of Mary Clearman Blew's newest contribution to western literature, she describes driving with her daughter to Tenino, Washington, where her Aunt Imogene taught school during World War II. The road they travel makes Blew feel "unsettled," perhaps because "it's not taking me where I expected to be." Readers familiar with Blew's earlier memoirs, All But the Waltz (1991) and Balsamroot (1994), are likely to find themselves similarly unsettled as they traverse territory both eerily familiar and strangely unexpected. While All But the Waltz and Balsamroot are haunting and sometimes starkly painful explorations of family resentments and …

Review Of Wilderness Journey: The Life Of William Clark By William E. Foley & William Clark And The Shaping Of The West By Landon Y. Jones, Jay H. Buckley

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Following the Lewis and Clark expedition's return in 1806, almost a decade passed before the first official record of their journey was published by Nicholas Biddle and James Allen in 1814. Two hundred years later Gary E. Moulton's definitive thirteen-volume editing of the journals was completed. In the past two centuries dozens of books and thousands of articles have explored various aspects of the Corps of Discovery and its participants. Dozens of biographies have chronicled the lives of Meriwether Lewis, George Drouillard, York, and, especially, Sacagawea. Amazingly, William Clark has received little notice. One important exception was Jerome O. Steffen's …

Review Of Myths America Lives By By Richard T. Hughes, Kris Fresonke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Scholars of American culture can resist anything except temptation, and the ultimate temptation is to write a jeremiad. Like New England divines, suckled in a creed outworn, calling for reform from pulpits tenured and unnoticed, the contemporary academic observer of American life, as a matter of professional privilege, redrafts his raw material into a social gospel. Its formal features are fundamentalism and selective evidence. Its mood is unironic. It has one ending: decline and fall.

Richard T. Hughes's Myths America Lives By suggests that the United States has both created and been created by six national, and in some cases …

Review Of Karl Bodmer's North American Prints Edited By Brandon K. Ruud, David C. Hunt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The most authoritative study of Swiss artist Karl Bodmer's American prints to have been issued to date, this profusely illustrated volume represents the culmination of several years of exhaustive research by curators and others associated with the Margre H. Durham Center for Western Studies at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. A veritable catalogue raisonne of the eighty-one aquatints that comprise the artist's North American atlas (1839- 43), it does for the Bodmer series what previous compilations of this kind have done for the published works of John James Audubon and George Catlin.

The text for Karl Bodmer's …

Review Of Geology Of The Lewis & Clark Trail In North Dakota By John W. Hoganson And Edward C. Murphy, Richard Josephs

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Stephen Ambrose would he proud! During this bicentennial commemoration of the most intrepid expedition in American history, a plethora of hooks on a broad range of topics dealing with the "Journey or Lewis and Clark" have made their appearance. Hoganson and Murphy have taken an intriguing look at one segment or the journey-the physical environment or North Dakota where the expedition spent more time (213 days) than in any other area that would become a state during its two-and-a-half-year-long journey from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean. As mandated by Thomas Jefferson, a major goal or the expedition was to …

Impacts Of Business Development In Rural Communities, Cheryl Devuyst, F. Larry Leistritz, Angela Schepp

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The purpose of this study was to examine the local socioeconomic impacts of new economic development initiatives in North Dakota’s rural (nonmetropolitan) communities. The analysis utilized interview, survey, and secondary data from four communities with recently developed agricultural processing plants, three with manufacturing and/or explored services facilities, and two control communities (i.e., towns that had not experienced the advent of a major new employer during the 1990s). Information from the two groups of development communities and the control communities is compared and contrasted to discern similarities and differences in the effects of the different types of development initiatives and to …

Review Of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals And The Transformation Of The Rural Landscape By Terence J Centner, Laura L. Jackson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The shift from integrated crop and livestock farms to confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the last thirty years requires better regulatory policies, better enforcement, greater incentives for farmers to prevent pollution, and modification of some “right to farm” legislation. This is the thesis of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape by Terence Centner, a professor of agricultural law and economics at the University of Georgia.

Review Of Conserving Biodiversity In Agricultural Landscapes: Model-Based Planning Tools Edited By Robert K. Swihart And Jeffrey E. Moore, Robert Sopuck

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Despite its title, this book is more about advice to Public sector authorities on how to plan housing and industrial developments in agricultural regions than about "conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes." The hook presents models of "nature-based planning" and assumes that in jurisdictions where legislated planning mechanisms are absent, biodiversity is automatically threatened. It is a book for those who see land use planning as the only answer to difficult landscape issues.
There is little appreciation that most agricultural lands are privately owned and inhabited by people who subscribe to the values and cultural norms or agrarian societies. These societies …