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United States economic and military assistance policy toward China during World War II and its immediate aftermath
(University of Kansas, 1988-05-31)This study traces the background and development of the U.S. assistance policy toward China in the late 1930's and throughout the 1940's. This aid took place in numerous forms but mostly via U.S. government programs. ... -
Inventamus Si Progressimus: “We Made It Up as We Went Along” The Evolution of the American Advisory Effort in South Vietnam
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Abstract This dissertation examines the efforts of the South Vietnamese government along with their American military and civilian advisors to devise and implement programs to combat the Viet Cong Infrastructure in South ... -
Imperial Entrepreneur: Masculinity, Race, and the Memory of Frederick Funston
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)This work examines Major General Frederick Funston’s life and subsequent memory. It seeks to answer two questions: first, how and why individuals/media makers constructed various identities of Funston during his life? ... -
The process of civilization on the Kansas frontier, Newton, Kansas, 1871-1873
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A history of the establishment of the Kansas state government
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Marsupials and monotremes in pre-Darwinian theory
(University of Kansas, 1980-05-31)Pre-Darwinian biologists encountered considerable difficulty in understanding the marsupials and monotremes because contemporary theoretical explanations had developed largely without reference to these peculiar creatures. ... -
The movement to create a national gallery of art in eighteenth-century France
(University of Kansas, 1962-12-31)This study will attempt to assess the content, nature, and accessibility of the royal collections during the eighteenth century prior to the Revolution and to trace and to analyze the ever-growing movement for a national ... -
The turbulent years : the University of Kansas, 1960-1975, a history
(University of Kansas, 1979)This study examines The University of Kansas during the years from 1960 to 1975. It in no way represents a definitive history of the university during that time. But through the combination of chronological and subject ... -
Individualism and the role of the individual in British and French socialism : the early years, 1800-1848
(University of Kansas, 1969-05-31)Individualism is a topic which·has received but scant treatment by modern scholars, although it is a subject which has prompted a great deal of commentary within the socialist movement itself. There has not been thus far ... -
American public opinion of Denmark during the German occupation, 1940-1945
(University of Kansas, 1957-05-31)The purpose of this thesis is to study American public-opinion of Denmark during the German occupation from April 9, 1940, to May 5, 1945. -
Good Catholics, Bad Acts: Sacrilege, Blasphemy and Lived Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Histories of the Spanish Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often view it as a militant champion of Catholic orthodoxy, where the Spanish Inquisition eradicated all erroneous behaviors and beliefs. Thousands ... -
The Persistence of Advertising Culture: Commerce and Consumers in Multi-Ethnic Galicia, 1911-1921
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)Despite tremendous change and instability during the second decade of the twentieth century due to modernization, war, and political reconfiguration, some elements of everyday life in Cracow and Lemberg maintained a ... -
Bodies for Battle: Systematic Training in the U.S. Army’s Physical Culture, 1885-1958
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)This study investigates the creation and evolution of an official U.S. Army physical culture between 1885 and 1958 built around systematic physical training. Facing “empty battlefields” wrought by new and improved weapons ... -
Spiritual Motherhood: Gendered Interpretations of the Spanish Laity's Religious Authority (1580-1730)
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)This research project delves into the question of the role of women in cities and towns across Spain and its empire in the early modern period. It focuses on women who gained prominence as visionaries and thus became targets ... -
Littoral Limits: Flood Insurance and the Quantification of Risk in the United States, 1914-2018
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Littoral Limits has three related concerns: how flood risk came to be quantified, how such information was used and contested once quantified, and how this information has shaped our relationships with the natural world. ... -
The Bombing of the USS Cole: How U.S. Foreign and Military Policy Led to 9/11
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)On October 12, 2000, al-Qaeda suicide bombers attempted to sink the USS Cole, an Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyer that was refueling in Aden, Yemen. They almost succeeded, and seventeen sailors lost their lives. Less ... -
FROM DEPENDENTS TO INTERDEPENDENCE: THE ARMY WIFE IDEAL AND THE MAKING OF ARMY FAMILY POLICY, 1942-1983
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)This dissertation examines the cultural concept of the Army wife ideal as it appeared and was negotiated in prescriptive literature, periodicals, and lived experiences from 1942 to 1983. Codified in response to the massive ... -
Encountering the Enlightenment: Science, Religion, and Catholic Epistemologies Across the Spanish Atlantic, 1687-1813
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)During the eighteenth century, a wave of thought inundated the Spanish empire, introducing new knowledge in the natural sciences, religion, and philosophy, and importantly, questioning the very modes of perceiving and ... -
"Many Paths in This Road of the Spirit": The Flexibility of Women's Religiosity in Early Modern Spain
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation examines women’s religiosity in early modern Spain, and it addresses the possibilities and limits of women’s religious expression. The overarching argument is that because the Catholic Church faced the ... -
The Deterioration of Chinese Influence in the Monoglian People's Republic, May, 1957 to December, 1960
(The University of Kansas, 1968)This paper will attempt to show that in three years from 1957 to 1960 the influence of the People’s Republic of China in the Mongolian People’s Republic was steadily waning, and to follow the events of this deterioration ...