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This thesis examines the material and interpretive relations imbricated in the Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) forest as a cultural landscape. Approaching this landscape, I outline and demonstrate the utility of a neo-Sauerian...
This is a study of the strategic and tactical use of ironclad warships during the American Civil War. The project seeks to examine why the naval administration on both sides (led by Gideon Welles for the Union and Stephen Mallory for the...
This dissertation examines the relationship between queer geography and gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. This relationship is intrinsically tied to issues of urban land valuation, sexuality, race, and the material reality of a...
At the end of the twentieth century, southern states boasted the largest number of private schools of any region within the United States, accounting for thirty percent of the nation’s independent elementary and secondary institutions.[1...
Using the Antarctic expeditions of Richard E. Byrd as a frame of reference, this dissertation places Antarctica in a more central role in our understanding of the United States in the mid-twentieth century. Scholarship on American...
My dissertation explores the Comité Pro Santa Cruz, a Bolivian rightwing social movement which developed to promote the political and economic interests of the eastern lowland department of Santa Cruz’s white and mestizo “elite” social...
The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps held up to nine miles the British First Army's front in northern France between April 1917 and April 1918. On 9 April 1918, the sledgehammer blow of the German operation Georgette fell upon First Army's...
In my dissertation I evaluate perspectives of development participation in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. Using semi-structured interviews and Q methodology, I assess what priorities exist in Foz economic strategies, what groups are perceived to...
The Allied war in the Southwest Pacific Area, and in Papua New Guinea, more specifically, is most often characterized in relation to General Douglas MacArthur, with little regard for the dynamic collection of servicemembers and civilians...
Charles Stuart returned to his native country after fourteen years in exile. His subjects had just endured eleven years of military dictatorship under Oliver Cromwell and wanted a return to the days of monarchy. On 25 May 1660, Charles...
Sonic experiences of a place are both personal and collective. They are derived from affectual encounters in that place in the everyday. The sounds of a place provide detail on the culture, development, and environment. Geographers have...
Embedded in the history of the arid Western U.S., water conflict seems out of place in the Southeast's oozing landscape of humidity, swamps, and Spanish moss (Manganiello, 2015). Yet throughout Georgia, Alabama, and Florida's shared...
This dissertation examines how the implementation of Enlightenment ideas in the French Revolution gave birth to a new secular conception of the state and the invention of a new religion. I argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, representing...
The Tortoise and the Expressway: The Governance of Circulation and the Conflict over the Appropriation of Residential and Conservation Properties by the Osceola Parkway Extension
Using the case of the Osceola Parkway Extension in Orange and Osceola Counties, this research examines how the legal geographies of expressway development and property rights claims intersect with gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)...
This thesis studies the causal factors of US slavery prior to the Civil War. My main data set is the 1860 census from the National Historical GIS (nhgis.org), which is aggregated to the county level. Historians have traditionally broken...
What explains why and how America fought the civil war? This thesis argues that industrial modernization can be a useful analytical tool for understanding the causes of the American Civil War. The argument is developed by analyzing the...
Gold Rush Cherokees looks at the centrality of gold rushes to Cherokee history and the importance of Cherokees to the history of American gold rushes. More specifically, these chapters investigate Cherokees' lived experiences in the...
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