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The Tây Sơn uprising: society and rebellion in late eighteenth-century Việt Nam, 1771-1802
(2001)This project is an examination of the Tây So,n movement and regime of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Viẹt Nam. I argue that the nature of this movement and its transformation into a series of ... -
The Promise and the Price of Contact: Puyallup Indian Acculturation, Federal Indian Policy and the City of Tacoma, 1832-1909
History shows that Native American contact with Euro-Americans led to many Indians’ loss of land, resources, and independence. Between 1832 and 1909, numerous Puyallup Indians of the south Puget Sound suffered this fate ... -
Theology, ritual, and confessionalization: the making and meaning of Lutheran baptism in reformation Germany, 1520-1618
(2001)How should the identity and religious behavior of 16 th century Protestants be investigated and understood? This dissertation uses Lutheran baptism as a vehicle for assessing the religious, political, and cultural values ... -
Toward a Sacred Topography of Central Asia: Shrines, Pilgrimage, and Gender in Kyrgyzstan
This dissertation explores the complex relationship that people have with shrines in southern Kyrgyzstan from the 1950s to the present. In particular, I look at how people, especially women, identify themselves as Muslims ... -
Transforming the Central Valley: body, identity, and environment in California, 1850-1970
(2000)In this dissertation, I provide a cultural history of environmental change in California's Central Valley. Complicating the assumption that projects of environmental transformation have proceeded from the belief on the ... -
Translation Of De Pignoribus Sanctorum Of Guibert Of Nogent : With Notes And Comments
(1941)Relics are the bodies of the saints or objects directly connected with them or with our Lord. The council of Trent, 1545-1563, sums up the doctrine of the Catholic Church concerning relics, stating in Session XXV that the ... -
Traveling Stories and Untold Desires: Female Sexuality in Song China, 10th-13th Centuries
(2012-09-13)This dissertation examines the historicity of female sexuality during the Song dynasty (960-1279), a time period when print technology, popular culture, and commercial activities had begun to boom yet prior to the emergence ... -
"Turn on the Sunshine": A History of the Solar Future
This dissertation examines the history of solar energy technology alongside broad changes in the politics and geography of energy since the nineteenth century. I argue that solar technologies evolved as expressions of the ... -
U.S. Forestry in the Philippines: Environment, Nationhood, and Empire, 1900-1937
(2014-04-30)Abstract U.S. Forestry in the Philippines: Environment, Nationhood, and Empire, 1900-1937 Nathan E Roberts Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Linda Nash Department of History During the early twentieth century, ... -
Unemployed citizens of Seattle, 1900-1939: Hulet Wells, Seattle labor, and the struggle for economic security
(1997)Jobless workers in Seattle, Washington, in 1931 started a remarkable experiment in self-help and political action. Although the Unemployed Citizens' League appeared to emerge spontaneously, it actually evolved from three ... -
United States Treaties And Special Legislation Relating To Chinese Immigration, 1844-1943.
(1952)Among the essential and permanent rights inherent in the sovereignty of nations is that of self-preservation. It is an established rule of international law that sovereign nations have the power as essential to self-[reservation, ... -
Upstream Influence: The Economy, the State, and Oregon's Landscape, 1860-2000
(2014-02-24)This dissertation examines the ways that people in Oregon mobilized the state apparatus linked to federal, state, and city governments. It traces their efforts at state mobilization across nearly a century and a half of ... -
Vesuvius and Naples: nature and the city, 1500-1700
(2004)How do nature and culture influence one another? This dissertation considers the stature of Vesuvius in the religious and political life of early modern Naples, and also the volcano's place in European humanism and science. ... -
"War for Peace": Race, Empire, and the Korean War
The Korean War (1950-1953) offers an apparent paradox in U.S. historical memory. Termed a "war for peace" by President Harry S. Truman and a "forgotten war" by historians, there was not much limited about the Korean War, ... -
War, Women, Vietnam: The Mobilization of Female Images, 1954-1978
(2013-07-25)This dissertation proceeds with two profoundly interwoven goals in mind: mapping the experience of women in the Vietnam War and evaluating the ways that ideas about women and gender influenced the course of American ... -
Warren G. Magnuson and consumer protection
(1994)Senator Warren G. Magnuson, a Democrat from Washington, contributed to the passage of virtually every major piece of federal consumer protection legislation enacted in the United States between 1960 and 1975. Before this ... -
Western knowledge and intellectual groups in Japan and Thailand in the nineteenth century: the Meirokusha and Young Siam
(1990)In the nineteenth century Japan and Thailand were confronted by serious challenges from the West as well as the threat of imperialism. The Meirokusha and the Young Siam were intellectual groups who introduced Western ideas ... -
White Power, Yellow Gold: Colonialism and Identity in the California and British Columbia Gold Rushes, 1848 - 1871
(2012-08-10)The gold rushes of California (1849-1858) and British Columbia (1858-1871) were watershed moments in the history of colonialism on the Pacific Coast of North America. By reconstructing the Victorian worldview of the men ... -
Within Patriarchy: Gender and Power in Massachusetts's Congregational Churches, 1630-1730
(2013-07-25)This dissertation explores the relationship between gender and power in the religious culture of Massachusetts's Congregational churches during the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. It contributes to the fields ...