History Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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John P. St. John, the father of constitutional prohibition
(University of Kansas, 1931) -
"An Uprising of the People": Military Recruitment in New York State During the Civil War
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)This dissertation examines the experiences of New Yorkers during the American Civil War as they participated in mobilization while striving to preserve their own autonomy and that of their state and communities. At the ... -
The problem of unemployment relief in France during the revolutionary eighteenth century
(University of Kansas, 1949) -
Becoming a Schismatic: The Concepts of the “Schism” and “Schismatic” in the Church and State Discourses of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Russia
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)This dissertation explores the role of language in the identification and consequent persecution of Russian religious dissent, known as the “Schism” (Raskol), or the Old Belief (staroverie). In the mid-seventeenth century, ... -
Coping with Crisis: Military Government Officials, U.S. Policy, and the Occupation of Bavaria, 1945-1949
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation explores the implementation of American policy in postwar Germany from the perspective of military government officers and other occupation officials in the Land of Bavaria. It addresses three main ... -
Weathering Extremes: Climate, Colonialism, and Indigenous Resistance in the Dutch Atlantic
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Weathering Extremes demonstrates how seventeenth-century climate changes mingled with cultural, social, economic, agro-ecological, and geopolitical forces to catalyze three simultaneous, though geographically disparate, ... -
The United States and international action, 1862-77
(University of Kansas, 1926) -
THE SEMANTICS OF REFORMATION: DISCOURSES OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN ENGLAND, C. 1414 – 1688
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The Semantics of Reformation: Discourses of Religious Change in England, c. 1414 – 1688 examines how the events of the sixteenth century were conceptualized as the English Reformation. The word ‘reformation’ was widely ... -
Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)My dissertation, “Austral Empires: Southern Investment in Latin America, 1808-1877,” argues that early nineteenth-century, white United States southerners strengthened their identities as pro-slavery, modern, and southern ... -
Managing the Empire’s Wealth: Environmental Thought during Spain’s Golden Age, 1492-1618
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)During the sixteenth century, or Spain's so-called "Golden Age," Spain's understanding of wealth, resource management, and cosmology underwent massive evolution in the face of gaining an empire in the Americas. Before the ... -
Aesthetic Authorities: The Socio-Political Dimensions of Warlord Tea Praxis in Early Modern Japan, 1573-1860
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation examines the practice of chanoyu (a performative art form featuring the formalized preparation of tea) by the regional warlords who took up the art in great numbers in Japan from the late sixteenth century ... -
Postwar Journeys: American and Vietnamese Transnational Peace Efforts since 1975
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation explores U.S.-Vietnam postwar relations through the transnational peace endeavors of American and Vietnamese ordinary citizens. The subjects of the study included Vietnamese refugees, children of American ... -
Crossing Germany: Eastern European Transmigrants and Saxon State Surveillance, 1900-1924
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation investigates migrant registration and control stations in Germany that served as a pre-“screening system” (Dorothee Schneider) to US immigration checkpoints such as Ellis Island. In the late-nineteenth, ... -
Racial borders : Black soldiers and race relations along the Rio Grande, 1866-1916
(University of Kansas, 1999)African Americans comprised almost 10 percent of the United States Army's strength between 1866 and 1898, participating in all major functions of western military service: Indian pacification, border control, protection ... -
Politics of Communication: Writing, Gender, and Royal Authority in the Spanish Empire (1556-1665)
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation prompts us to revisit our ideas about the politics of the Spanish empire by providing a picture of a world in which women influenced politics through their petitions, and a world in which affection, ... -
Schurz, Grant, and civil service
(University of Kansas, 1929) -
Disposal of the Civil War Navy
(University of Kansas, 1931) -
Missionary and Manchu
(University of Kansas, 1930) -
`The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer': Horsemanship as Physical Evidence of Noble Character under the Stuart Kings of England, 1603-1685
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation encourages scholars to think critically about why relationships between horses and men held elite Englishmen's focused attention for generations. It asks how and why the English nobility derived social ... -
The political leadership of James G. Blaine (in connection with the Grant administration)
(University of Kansas, 1931)