History: Recent submissions
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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
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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)
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The establishment of the national banking system, 1863-1864
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The Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, 30 Sept. to 22 Nov., 1818
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The intent of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
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Progress of science in the eighteenth century
(University of Kansas, 1925) -
Stalin's Cold War Strategy, 1945-1953
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Today, the post-Cold War world order based on the US unipolar supremacy is no longer a main paradigm in world affairs. Militarily, the US number one global power has still no questions. However, other powers have risen ... -
Re-grounding the Cogito: Descartes and the Problem of the Baroque
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The dissertation offers a historically-based critique of the foundations of modernity in view of the truth claims it struggled to articulate and which continue to dominate the West.At the very core of this problem are the ... -
Wahunsonacock's Gambit: Powhatan Foreign Relations and the Success of Virginia, 1570-1622
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)In an effort to explain the speed with which a small band of English colonists was able to supplant the expansive and powerful Chesapeake Algonquian paramountcy of Tsenacommacah, this work asks why the leaders of the ... -
Popularism vs. Bonapartism. A study of certain initial phases of the mobilizing of nineteenth century liberalism
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The federal cable and telegraph policy from 1860 to 1878
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The United States civil aviation policy
(University of Kansas, 1929) -
De Pradt and Napoleon
(University of Kansas, 1932) -
Governor Glick (Kansas) and prohibition, 1883-1884
(University of Kansas, 1931)