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"A Society in Flux: Female Education and Societal Transition in Early Nineteenth Century France, 1830" examines the identity and social constructs of women educated during the Napoleonic period and how their state-sponsored education...
The ascent and downfall of Napoleon had a major impact in Europe, but it also affected the new democracy across the Atlantic Ocean, the United States of America. From 1804-1815, the American republic was caught in a diplomatic dilemma, ...
The Palestine Mandate remains one of the most controversial topics in the historiography of twentieth-century British foreign policy. With the publication of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Britain committed itself to the Jewish...
Nationalism has been a driving force in both nation building and in spurring high levels of violence. As nations have become the norm in modern day society, nationalism has become detrimental to international law, which protects the...
Ritual healing has fascinated ethnographers and historians for several decades. Over the last twenty-five years, ethnomusicologists have begun to examine the cognitive, performative, and phenomenological aspects of ritual and trance....
This study situates African women's fertility at the crossroads of historical trends and current politico-economic realities of gender and migration from developing to developed nations since 1991. It examines fertility as a site of...
This dissertation is a comparative study of the leadership of two Confederate governors, John Milton of Florida and Joseph E. Brown of Georgia. It examines their relations with the Confederate government as well as relations between the...
This thesis is a comprehensive study of the negotiations on the Palestinian refugees in the Middle East peace process from 1948 to the present. The Palestinian refugees are an integral part of the Middle East peace process and, according...
On March 11, 2004 thirteen terrorists attacked the Madrid commuter rail system, killing 191 people and wounding 1, 741 just three days before Spanish elections. The ruling Popular Party led by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar...
This dissertation study is a baseline investigation into Iraqi insurgents' use of YouTube as a strategic communication tool. The study utilized a content analysis of videos from October 28, 2008 to December 1, 2008 for the search term ...
Reconquista and Convivencia: Post-Conquest Valencia during the Reign of Jaime I, El Conquistador: Interaction Between Christians and Muslims (1238-1276)
The Reconquista in Valencia has traditionally been viewed as an attack on Islam by the Christians of Muslim Spain. However, while there was certainly a religious component to the Reconquista, this was not the sole, or even the most...
Muslims in the West African state of Mali use the concept of baraji--which translates from the vernacular as "divine reward" or "recompense"--as a framework for understanding proper religious practice and the role of Islam in daily...
Following the devastation of the First World War, the British utterly rejected the idea of fighting another major war in their near future. As a result, the country's interwar policies were not geared towards maintaining a powerful...
How the Common Grunt and Prostitute Changed Military Policy argues that the promiscuity of the American servicemen and the women they encountered, forced the military to abandon its policy of endorsing abstinence during the Second...
When an immigrant came to early twentieth-century America, his or her ability to naturalize was dependent on the artificial color designation assigned to his or her group. Armenian and Syrian-Lebanese immigrants, however, entered the...
Dwight Eisenhower once warned of an insidious collusion between industry and government that threatened to become master of United States domestic and foreign policy. His warning came too late, of course, for the threat had already...
Gordon's Ghosts: British Major-General Charles George Gordon and His Legacies, 1885-1960, examines the various ways that Gordon and his memory have been used in the British Empire following his death in Sudan in 1885. After his death, ...
Out of the chaos of World War I grew a unified Jewish military group committed to championing Zionist goals. When Vladimir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky first conceived the idea of the Jewish Legion, he envisioned it as the nucleus of a Jewish army...
This dissertation examines American-Egyptian relations from 1962 to 1967 during the Yemeni civil war. The central question that is raised here is: how did Nasser's security and political dilemma cause a breakdown in American-Egyptian...
Between 1861 and 1862, Floridians flocked to join the six regiments that eventually constituted the Florida Brigade of the West. As the fragile remains of the 1st and 3rd Florida's Battle Flag attests, portions of the brigade saw action...
Paul Thiébault (1769-1846) rose to the rank of général de division in the Napoleonic armies of France. He was also the author of military histories, studies of the operations of staff organizations, and a controversial set of memoirs...
In American History Reconstruction was a period of great change. The abolition of slavery forced the South to create a free labor system. How did this new focus affect African-Americans? Were they to become equal participants in a free...
This dissertation analyzes the career of Henry Howard, Elizabethan courtier, and his principle intellectual work, A Dutifull Defence of the Lawful Regiment of Women, in order to better understand the politics of Elizabethan court...
Afghanistan was both the site of an experiment in traditional imperialism, as well as the first area where the concept of Liberal imperialism was introduced. The end of the Second Afghan War was a catalyst for British foreign policy. The...
In his ground-breaking Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson declared that the census, map and museum shaped the manner in which the colony imagined its dominion, the nature of the colonized, the geography of the colony and the...
Before 1789, France lacked a well-defined external boundary. At the same time, the kingdom was dissected by internal frontiers (customs lines, provincial borders, ecclesiastical jurisdictions, judicial districts, etc.) and pock-marked by...
This study explores the life and military career of General Peter Bagration. A scion of the Georgian royal dynasty, he was reared in the exiled family in a small town in the periphery of the Russian Empire and rose from obscurity to the...
Ritual healing has fascinated ethnographers and historians for several decades. Over the last twenty-five years, ethnomusicologists have begun to examine the cognitive, performative, and phenomenological aspects of ritual and trance....
The heresiography portion found in the Kitb̄ al-shajara by the fourth/tenth century Ismā'īlī dā'ī Abū Tammām presents an interesting opportunity for scholars of religion. Not just an unique heresiographical work written from a non...
1821 Guadalajara, Mexico exhibited surprising mobility within its population. Using a set of data from the back-to-back censuses of 1821 and 1822, this study argues that mobility affected almost every individual who lived in Guadalajara...
This thesis examines and analyzes Russian and Austro-Hungarian foreign policy and the rivalry between them between 1904-1914. It asserts the centrality of prestige-garnering as a motivator of their Balkan diplomacy, not only to project...
In the American political context African Americans have the greatest legacy because of their crusade for freedom and civil rights. Unlike Anglo-Americans, African Americans were barred from society for no other reason than their skin...
This thesis examines and analyzes the Soviet Union's religious policies through a comparison of policy toward the Russian Orthodox Church and that toward Islam. It explains the differences in religious policy between each Soviet leader, ...
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