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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Palembang in the 1950s: The Making and Unmaking of a Region
(2013-02-25)My dissertation examines complex socioeconomic issues surrounding the postcolonial transition in Indonesia by focusing on the history of Palembang and the discourse of the "region" in 1950s' Indonesia. By examining these ... -
Photos and captions: the political uses of photography in the Third French Republic, 1871-1914
(1981)This dissertation examines the political uses of photography in the Third French Republic from 1870 to 1914. It focuses particularly on photography dealing with the Paris Commune of 1871, and on the use of photography by ... -
A Place for Every Barbarian, A Road for Every Roman: Imperium, Movement, and Roman Identity from Pompey to Hadrian
(2013-07-23)In a purely territorial sense, a Roman empire, defined as Rome's hegemonic domination of the Mediterranean basin, is an inescapable fact beginning at least in the third century BCE with the Punic Wars and the subsequent ... -
Playing with the past: heritage and public identity in the American West
(1999)This study investigates the development of public identity and heritage in Red Lodge, Montana between 1889 and the 1990s. Like many western towns, Red Lodge is the creation of a variety of forces and its public identity ... -
Politics and morality in northern Sung China: early Neo-Confucian views on obedience to authority
(1981)Throughout the history of Chinese political thought the need for obedience to authority has been a constant refrain. This respect for hierarchical authority was given further support by the philosophical system of ... -
Rashīd al-Dīn and the making of history in Mongol Iran
(2013-07-25)The <italic>Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh</italic> (Collected histories) of Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (d. 1318) has long been considered the single richest witness to the history of the early Mongol Empire in general and its Middle Eastern ... -
Reconstructing Humanity: Philosophies of the Human in the German Cold War
(2012-08-10)This dissertation examines the role played by conceptions of human being in the intellectual and cultural life of the two German states in the early decades of the Cold War. In the wake of the crimes of the National Socialist ... -
The rise of the southwestern frontier under the Qing, 1640-1800
(1996)This dissertation is a study of the domestic impact of the Qing dynasty's frontier strategies during the first half of the dynasty (1640-1800). It examines how the vigorous Qing frontier undertakings during this period ...