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Landscapes of Solidarity: Timber Workers and the Making of Place in the Pacific Northwest, 1900-1964
This dissertation is an environmental history of Northwest timber workers. Looking at rural logging communities in Washington, Oregon, northern California, Idaho, and British Columbia between 1900 and 1964, it examines ... -
The last great awakening: the revival of 1905 and progressivism
(1991)A major impulse within the Progressive movement was the desire to revitalize core values based on evangelical Christianity. For an important cross-section of Progressive leaders and evangelical clergymen, new patterns of ... -
Learning Liberalism: Seattle Schools and the Changing Face of American Racial Politics, 1960-1980
This dissertation compares and contrasts the two major anti-busing movements in Seattle, Washington, the first in the early 1970s and the second in the late 1970s. Opposition to busing was fierce and unrelenting, excepting ... -
Maccabees on the Baltic: the Biblical apologia of the Teutonic Order
(1989)This study examines the religious and historical literature of the Teutonic Order, the brotherhood of warrior-monks whose northern crusade subdued and converted the eastern Baltic region during the late Middle Ages.Chapter ... -
Macedonian Succession: A Game of Diadem
In this dissertation, I explore royal succession in Macedonia from the early Argead period until the fall of Macedonia to the Romans in 168 BCE. Particular attention is paid to the transition from the unstable, violent ... -
The Making of John B. Gough (1817-1886): Temperance Celebrity, Evangelical Pageantry, and the Conservatism of Popular Reform in Victorian Society
(2014-02-24)The dissertation is partly a biography of John Bartholomew Gough, a transatlantic temperance celebrity and one of the most popular itinerant lecturers of the Victorian era. It is also a social history of Gough's supporters ... -
Mark Twain's western years
(1950)The purpose of this thesis is to make a study of the life and writings of Mark Twain in Nevada and California between l86l and 1865 in the light of the considerable amount of new information and republished writings which ... -
McCarthyism and Eisenhower's State Department, 1953-1961
(2000)The public anti-communist campaign of Senator Joseph McCarthy had a lasting impact on the conduct of U.S. foreign relations, particularly among professional diplomatic institutions like the State Department and its Foreign ... -
Mobilizing Empire: Race, Sugar, and U.S. Colonialism across the Pacific, 1898-1934
This dissertation brings together histories of the colonization of the American West, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines to explore the historical development of race and capitalism in the formation of the U.S. empire. Focusing ... -
Modern Antiquities: Arthur Evans, the Balkans, and the Discovery of a Lost European Civilization
This dissertation employs the career of British archaeologist Arthur Evans as the fulcrum to examine the concept of “modern antiquities,” which Evans defined as the study of ancient customs and societies best represented ... -
Monetary Authorities: Market Knowledge and Imperial Government in the Colonial Philippines, 1892 - 1942
(2013-07-25)This dissertation argues that, from the twilight of the Spanish colonial era through the entire official American colonial insular period, the history of authority over money in the colonial Philippines reveals the emerging ... -
Mosul's Hinterland: Village and Monastery in Early Islamic Iraq
This dissertation offers a social history of monasteries and villages in the hinterland of Mosul during the early Islamic period. Modern historians of the medieval Islamic world often mention the large Christian populations ... -
The nature of gold: an environmental history of the Alaska/Yukon gold rush
(1997)Between 1897 and 1900 thousands of miners flocked to the Yukon interior of Canada and Alaska in search of placer gold on the Klondike, Stewart, Manook, Fortymile, and other tributaries of the Yukon River. Through a close ... -
Negotiating Community and Nation in Chợ Lớn: Nation-building, Community-building and Transnationalism in Everyday Life during the Republic of Việt Nam, 1955-1975
My dissertation examines everyday life of Chinese communities during the Republic of Việt Nam based on a variety of sources in Vietnamese, Chinese, French and English, most notably rare and rarely-used Chinese-language ... -
The Ocean Laboratory: Exploration, Fieldwork, and Science at Sea
In framing the history of field sciences most historians emphasize terrestrial sites rather than marine ones. But, to ignore marine spaces is to omit an extensive geography to which the abstract notion of "the field" has ... -
Origin of the constitution of the state of Washington
(1910)The Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Washington met at Olympia, on July 4, 1889, pursuant to the Enabling Act of Congress and the election therein authorized to form a Constitution for the proposed new state. ... -
"Our Dear Kazan": Urban Initiatives and Imperial Legacies, 1774-1860
This dissertation offers an early-nineteenth-century urban history of Kazan, a provincial capital located on the Volga River in the Russian heartland. Kazan was a city that encapsulated the Russian Empire in microcosm. Its ...