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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Women in the Period of Disunion (A.D. 220-581) enjoyed more social and familial freedom than their counterparts in late imperial China. Like her Han (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) predecessor, she was, to certain extent, free to ...