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Gateway Cities: Seattle and Vancouver on the Pacific, 1896-1939
“Gateway Cities” explores the cultural and material production of settler colonialism in the urban waterfronts of Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, between the 1890s and 1930s. It charts the making of ... -
Germany's Catholic fraternities and the Weimar Republic
(2007)This project examines the relationship of Catholic fraternities to the politics and culture of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). Through the last century, Catholic fraternity alumni have served as German chancellors, ... -
Gift Exchange among States in East Asia during the Eleventh Century
(2013-11-14)In the year of 1005 the Liao and the Song concluded the Shanyuan treaty and it initiated the peace between these two states, which was conditioned to exchange biannual envoy missions: on New Year's day and imperial birthdays. ... -
"Graunted of the Bysshop Honde": the meaning and uses of the sacrament of confirmation from its inception through the Middle Ages
(2003)This dissertation is a social history of the sacrament of confirmation in western Christianity from its beginnings in the early third century through the Middle Ages. It is an exploration of the meanings attached to the ... -
Growing Up Soviet? The Orphans of Stalin's Revolution and Understanding the Soviet Self
(2013-02-25)This dissertation explores the history of the "orphans of Stalin's revolution": the hundreds of thousands of children who grew up under the care (or neglect) of the Soviet state after losing their parents to Stalin's harsh ... -
A history of the Washington State labor movement, 1885-1935
(1978)Over the years, historians have produced a number of fine works on various aspects of the Washington State labor movement. Unfortunately, they have tended to concentrate their attentions on a few incidents, organizations, ... -
A history of women faculty at the University of Washington, 1896-1970
(1984)In 1896 the University of Washington set out to become an institution committed to research and the furthering of knowledge, not merely to its transmission as was the case in the first thirty years of its existence. In its ... -
History writing and late Muscovite court culture: a study of Andrei Lyzlov's History of the Scythians
(1991)This dissertation studies Andrei Lyzlov's History of the Scythians, a work composed in 1692 by a Muscovite nobleman that is part of the late seventeenth century polemical campaign urging war against the Crimean Khanate and ... -
The Horse: Conspicuous Consumption of Embodied Masculinity in South Asia, 1600-1850
(2014-02-24)In this dissertation, I analyze the role the horse and horse culture played in early modern South Asia through the lens of the genre of horse treatises (<italic>farasnama</italic>) produced in the Subcontinent in Persian. ... -
Horsemen from the Edge of Empire: The Rise of the Jurchen Coalition
(2012-09-13)This dissertation examines the formation and rise of the Jurchen Coalition under the leadership of the Anchuhu Wanyan clan during the late 11th and early 12th centuries. The Anchuhu Wanyan utilized their political and ... -
In and Out: Food, the Body, and Social Hierarchies in Roman Household
Providing a distinct window into the social and political developments of the early Principate, my dissertation takes up various lived experiences in domestic settings to probe Roman notions of embodiment. It offers a ... -
In the end the land: settlement of the Columbia Basin Project
(2004)Federal reclamation of the nation's acid west was rooted in part in its potential to further the spread of the family-owned and family-operated farm. The Columbia Basin Project (CBP) in central Washington is the single ... -
Industrializing American culture: heartland radicals, Midwestern migration, and the Chicago Renaissance
(2007)"Industrializing American Culture" uses the Chicago Renaissance, a literary movement whose importance is rarely appreciated today, to show industrialization's powerful influence on the development of twentieth-century ... -
An Inquiry Into The Maine Disaster, And Other Incidents Which Were Factors In Bringing About The Spanish-American War
(1932)One of the most striking phases of the last quarter of the nineteenth century has been the rise of the new national imperialism. By this is meant the development of European or American control over the territory or the ... -
Instrumental or experimental: a history of U.S. naval air stations in Europe during World War I
(1996)At the turn of the century, the United States Navy found itself participating in an explosive naval armaments race. Germany and England were its strongest rivals. Greater emphasis on emerging technologies was transforming ... -
"It is a question of tactics": cooperation among Czech and Sudeten German Social Democrats in interwar Czechoslovakia
(1997)This study explores how and why the leadership of two working-class parties defused long-standing national enmities in order to forge a program that promoted solidarity at all levels of the Social Democratic movement, from ... -
"Josephism" reconsidered: the monks of the Iosifo-Volokolamsk Monastery
(2004)Historians have long recognized that Iosif of Volokolamsk and the monastery he founded in 1479 had a profound influence on the Russian church and state. "Josephites" are generally considered to have been predominantly a ... -
José María de Pereda's concepts of politics, religion and the ideal life of the peasant as shown in his thesis novels
(1950)All of la Montana may be found in the novels of Jose Maria de Pereda. The countryside, the lofty mountains, the valleys, the rivers, and the sea itself comprise the setting against which he places his characters and against ...