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History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Origin of the South Sea Company, 1710-1714
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Some aspects of the relations of the English lower classes to the criminal system, 1815-1830
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'What's a Heaven For?' National Public Culture's Role in Shaping US Space Policy, 1957-61
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)While cultural tenets exert strong impact on defense policy and doctrine, these ideas are crucially distilled and adjusted by people and institutions, and other opinion seek to influence the minds and actions of these ... -
East German Protestantism Under Communist Rule, 1945 - 1961
(The University of Kansas, 1966) -
Southeastern Kansas Cow Towns
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A Case Study of Press Censorship in Vichy France
(The University of Kansas, 1980) -
Splitting Atoms, Fracturing Landscapes: Policymaking, Environmental Science, and the Nuclear Complex, 1945-1960
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)"Splitting Atoms, Fracturing Landscapes: Policymaking, Environmental Science, and the Nuclear Complex, 1945-1960" examines the implications of an expansive nuclear culture in the postwar United States. This dissertation ... -
Tory Opposition to the Reform Bill of 1832
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Relief work in Kansas, 1856-1857
(University of Kansas, 1928) -
The Cold War and American Education
(The University of Kansas, 1975-10)American historians who have studied the Cold War have usually focused upon either the events on the international scene which gave rise to tensions or on the policies and rhetoric of national political leaders such as ... -
The Harmony of Yin and Yank: The American Military Advisory Effort in China, 1941-1951
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)THE HARMOMY OF YIN AND YANK: The American Military Advisory Effort in China, 1941-1951 By Joseph G. D. Babb Professor J. Megan Greene, Advisor The American military personnel assigned to advise and assist China's armed ... -
A History of Irrigation in the Arkansas River Valley in Western Kansas, 1880-1910
(University of Kansas, 1968)One of the important adjustments made by the settlers of the High Plains to their new environment was the introduction of irrigation agriculture. Among the earliest and most important centers of this development was the ... -
ARRIVING AT A COMMON GROUND: JOHN REED SWANTON AND AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This project examines the life of renowned anthropologist John Reed Swanton (1873-1953 ) and his work with indigenous peoples. Combining several methodologies that included archaeology, anthropology, history, and linguistics, ... -
Era Bell Thompson: Observations of an American Daughter on the American South and the African Congo
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)This dissertation asks how author and journalist Era Bell Thompson understood and constructed her racial identity against the historical context of the connections between the American South and the Congo. Thompson's unique ... -
The Unfulfilled Promise: The Development of Operational Art in the U.S. Military, 1973-1997
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This study examines the theory, doctrine, and practice of operational art in the U.S. military starting in the early 1970s after the end of the Vietnam War to the mid 1990s after Operation Desert Storm. Using a model of ... -
From the Impoverished to the Entitled: The Experience and Meaning of Old Age in America since the 1950s
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)With more than seventy million individuals, the baby boom generation is rapidly approaching traditional retirement age and threatening to strain America's public and private resources. Within the context of Social Security ... -
General Lesley J. McNair: Little-Known Architect of the U.S. Army
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)General Lesley J. McNair demonstrated an innovative spirit and exceptional intellectual capacity in his efforts to organize and train the U.S. Army for World War II. The influence he exerted on Army doctrine, training, ... -
Global Migration in Transition: The Americas, Europe, and Italian Diaspora (1946-1960)
(University of Kansas, 2010-12-31)This study investigates the development of post-WWII Italian migration to Argentina, Belgium, Canada, and The U.S. and it frames this case-study within the broader discussion about he ways in which past population movements ... -
A City Amputated, A Community Regenerated: Munich During and After the Allied Air War, 1939-1948
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Cities do not exist in isolation. They sum up a complex web of connections between people and natural resources, knit together by transport systems. Cities are also connected to other cities, regions, and countries. Like ... -
Losing an Empire, Losing a Role?: The Commonwealth Vision, British Identity, and African Decolonization, 1959-1963
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Many observers of British national identity assume that decolonization presaged a crisis in the meaning of Britishness. The rise of the new imperial history, which contends Empire was central to Britishness, has only ...