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Judge Pierre Crabitès was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, 17 February 1877. Like so many in New Orleans, Pierre Crabitès was a Creole. His father was a wealthy French immigrant, and his mother was a Virginian....
"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 study of interfaith interactions in medieval Spain often follows one of two sweeping schemes of historical explanation. One usually either subscribes to the idea of an antagonistic Clash of Cultures in the vein of Samuel Huntington...
Pearling provided the basis for economic prosperity for the port cities in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today. However, in the light of oil wealth, pearling has been relegated to the distant past. It...
Between the years 1900 and 1923, women in Ireland played an integral role in the nationalist movement. While several nationalist groups had female members, the women also founded their own nationalist organizations, Inghindhe na hEireann...
Perspectives on Infantry: Quality and Cohesion- Comparison of American, British, and German Army Manpower Policies and Effects on the Infantry Small Unit during the Second World War, 1939-1945
The outcomes of the military manpower policies of the major Western Powers of the Second World War, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the Second World War, form the basis for this study. Through an examination of...
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 period from the early 17th century to the late 19th century was an era of protracted Christological controversy in the long history of the Ethiopian Church. The main subject of the debate was the meaning and relevance of the...
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...
This dissertation examines the justification for using armed force throughout Islam's history. Special emphasis will be made to the following three terms, harb, jihad, and qital. These three words translate into war, struggle, and fight...
The purpose of this dissertation is to use a Foucauldian lens to examine the nature and scope of the many challenges the British faced in southwest Arabia in the wake of the retreating Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War....
This thesis explores the effectiveness of the French navy during the Old Regime. The maritime strategies and policies of the French navy are evaluated in an effort to determine if the French navy of the Old Regime was successful in...
Louis-Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse was one of the most important admirals of the French Republic and an important colonial administrator under Napoléon Bonaparte. Born in 1747 in Auch, he entered the navy in 1765. Slowly rising through the...
A Swiss of the French extraction, Antoine-Henri Baron de Jomini (1779-1869) received first-hand experience in the Napoleonic Wars by serving in various capcities as a staff officer beginning in 1805. He was quckly promoted, and by the...
The French Revolution had a tremendous impact on the social, political, and cultural development of the western world. Similarly, it had a revolutionary impact on warfare in both Europe and the United States. Although the U.S. had a...
From 1720 until 1722, the French region of Provence suffered an epidemic of plague, caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, that arrived from the Levant at the port of Marseille in May 1720. During this time, it may have claimed as many...
This study engages historical memory and examines racial violence in Taylor County, Florida, in order to explore how memories concerning racial violence and southern identity are created and maintained. Special attention is paid to the...
The Cliveden Set was a 1930s right-wing, upper class group of prominent individuals who were politically influential in Britain during the interwar period. The group's members included notable politicians, journalist, and aristocrats...
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...
The following study utilizes a 1981 reproduction of a ca.1525, Safavid version of the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh, to investigate the manuscript's numerous illustrations of painted interior design. Initial research focuses on...
Europe's dominance in the study of the Revolutionary Era obscures the era's many important non-European effects. Equally, scholars of India neglect the important role European imperial rivalry had on the British conquest of India in...
War features prominently in history, that is, in the records of literate societies. This paper addresses the issue of prehistoric warfare, whether human societies without writing fight wars, and if so how often, under what...
Napoleon Bonaparte's foreign policy was perhaps the crucial weakness in the First Empire's fate. Through strength of arms on the battlefields of Europe, Napoleon was able to subdue and dominate Europe, yet it was this very strength which...
The American Army's first encounter during World War II with the German Army in North Africa at the Battle of Kasserine Pass resulted in a tactical defeat. Lloyd Fredendall, the II Corps commander, did not lead from the front and instead...
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...
Ireland was England's first subject, its breeding ground for colonization and imperialism that would span the world over. Ireland underwent eight hundred years of more of various forms of encroachment by the British, yet the period...
My thesis starts by looking at Lenin's interpretation of Marxism. The Leninist ideas of a tangible reality, the rejection of social democratic compromise and the importance of social responsibility as well as personal responsibility for...
This work examines memory of the Battle of Waterloo. There have been hundreds of works on the Battle of Waterloo but what this work does is to examine how works in several genres change over time. The memory of Waterloo was not static...
Glorious, creative, contentious and optimistic are all words that have been used to describe England in the second half of the Sixteenth-century. The Tudor age was one of great literature, military victory, religious tension, and, it was...
This thesis discusses an area of key interest in modern-day Iraq â the Kurdish military, or peshmerga. Translated as "those who face death", the peshmerga have become a staple of Kurdish culture in the last 100 years. Officially...
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, ...
In seeking to build the Thousand Year Reich, the German government under the administration of the National Socialist party constructed many different ideologies to create the foundation for its new community. Although not as highly...
This dissertation considers the transformation of the United States Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense navy during the first century of this nation's history into an offensive-mindset, risk taking navy in the very early stages...
This dissertation examines the military and diplomatic career of Jacques Etienne Macdonald. It is based on archival research at the Archives de la Guerre, located at the Chateau de Vincennes, the Archives National, and the Archives...
Historians have studied Napoleon's Peninsular War for nearly 200 years, focusing in great detail on its military aspect. While many studies are devoted to the Duke of Wellington, Marshal Andre Massena, or other French marshals, there are...
The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the utilization and effectiveness of the British cavalry during the Peninsular War. The accomplishments and reputation of the mounted arm has been in dispute since the end of the Napoleonic...
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...
This thesis is a micro-history of how the 2nd Ranger Battalion, during World War II evolved their military doctrine. This work focuses on their training for operation Pointe du Hoc and the ensuing battle. After the fight for Pointe du...
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...
Prior to 1967, the liberation of the Palestinian people meant a coordinated attack by the Arab armies on Israel. After 1967, the liberation of the Palestinians fell to the people who inhabited the Territories-West Bank and Gaza and the...
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...
As the largest empire in history, the British Empire has established relations with countries and peoples across the globe. Imperialism has formed the basis of many of these connections and shaped the ways in which areas under British...
This thesis examines the military career of general of division Jean Boudet. Born in Bordeaux, France in February 1769, and he joined the French army in 1785. Boudet was released three years later. He volunteered for the army in 1792 and...
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...
This study explores the role of the assassination of President James Abram Garfield and the midterm election of 1882 in compelling the 47th Congress to pass the Pendleton Civil Service Act in January 1883. Relying on the manuscript...
Over the last thirty years, there has been a significant shift in scholarly focus from leader-centered foreign relations to analyses of the interactions between a much broader range of participants in the foreign policymaking process....
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...
Between 1933-1945, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise did more than any other American Jewish leader to fight against Hitlerism. Wise was one of the earliest outspoken critics of Adolf Hitler, speaking out against him and the National Socialist...
Gibraltar has been one of Great Britain's most legendary fortresses since its capture from Spain in 1704 and its strategic position as the gatekeeper of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean gives it a commanding influence over...
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