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History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The five constitutions of the Republic of Mexico
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Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
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Freedom of speech and press during the great war
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The purchase of Alaska
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Imperial Pubs: British American Taverns as Spaces of Empire, 1700-1783
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)Imperial Pubs: British American Taverns as Spaces of Empire, 1700-1783 employs the North American tavern space to investigate how colonists connected with the British Empire, and in turn, understood their position(s) in ... -
Miscommunication and Misunderstanding: Eisenhower, IRBMs, and Nuclear Weapons in the NATO Alliance
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)President Dwight D. Eisenhower's New Look security policy put nuclear weapons at the forefront of U.S. defense efforts. Due to the lack of an effective Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in the mid-1950s, the U.S. required ... -
Logistics Matters: the Growth of Little Americas in Occupied Germany
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)The U. S. Army's presence in Germany after the Nazi regime's capitulation in May 1945, required pursuit of two stated missions: (1) to secure German borders, and (2) to establish an occupation government within the U. S. ... -
WORKING FOR EQUALITY: ACTIVISM AND ADVOCACY BY BLIND INTELLECTUALS IN JAPAN, 1912-1995
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This dissertation examines advocacy by blind activists as the primary catalysts in fighting for equal access to education and employment for blind people in Japan from 1912-1995. Highlighting profiles of prominent blind ... -
Invading Sexuality: Perception and Response in Postwar Japan, 1945-1957
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation examines Japan during the Allied Occupation and the intersection of Occupation goals for remaking Japan into a peaceful, democratic nation with domestic constructs of sexuality. This study demonstrates ... -
Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague: Nature-induced Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age, 1672-1764
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic was waning by the end of the seventeenth century. The dramatic economic growth and cultural efflorescence that had defined this era was stagnant. The catastrophic "disaster year" of ... -
Soil, Water, and the State: The Conservation-Industrial Complex and American Agriculture since 1920
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)“Soil, Water, and the State” examines the history of soil and water conservation in the United States since 1920 through the lens of the conservation-industrial complex: a vast network of parties who shared economic, ... -
A history of the Church of the Brethren in Kansas
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Confronting the Environmental Crisis: Anti-Environmentalism and the Transformation of Conservative Thought in the 1970s
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)“Confronting the Environmental Crisis” examines the role anti-environmentalism played in the unification of conservative thought in the 1960s and 1970s. American conservatism during these decades was no monolith. Rather, ... -
The Kansas Pacific
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The British Peace Commission of 1778
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Rutland, Vermont, 1770-1791
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Women at Work: SS Aufseherinnen and the Gendered Perpetration of the Holocaust
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)Grossly outnumbered by their male colleagues and largely forgotten by history, SS women experienced and implemented the Holocaust in gendered ways. SS Aufseherinnen guarded women imprisoned within the Nazi concentration ... -
Nature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Mexico:The Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural (1868-1914)
(University of Kansas, 2014-12-31)This dissertation centers on the place natural history occupied in Mexican science and the ideas of the members of the Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural (SMHN). I propose that between 1865 and 1914, Mexican intellectuals ... -
Between slavery and wage labor : a study in the changing forms of labor in pre-colonial and Colonial Ghana
(University of Kansas, 1983) -
Religious Controversy and Enlightenment: A Study of French Biblical and Ecclesiastical Scholarship in the Age of Louis XIV
(University of Kansas, 1984)