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Individualism and the role of the individual in British and French socialism : the early years, 1800-1848
Bush, Robert D.
Ph.D. University of Kansas, History 1969
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 any scholarly attempt to treat this topic as it relates to the Utopian Socialists or the early nineteenth century. The role of' the individual in the writings of' this school of socialist thought is a relatively untouched area of investigation. Although researchers have examined many sources for the term “ individualism,” none of them have used the numerous dictionaries of the period, 1800•1848, to explain their findings further. And, no study has sought to place both of these problems, the origins and history of individualism and the role of the individual, together into one project. As will be developed in the text, these two problems were interrelated for the six thinkers treated below.·
As·the title indicates, this study has attempted to gather and digest the major thoughts of early nineteenth century British and French socialists on but one main subject:· individualism and the role of' the individual. Specifically this effort involves consideration of several questions. How did each thinker contribute toward the meaning of' the term “individualism” as it finally appeared about mid-century?· In what ways did they view the role of the individual not only under the existing social order, but in their respective alternatives to that order? As writers they faced the dilemma of indicating the rights due to both the collective social body and of each individual in it. How does one secure both the blessings of mankind, and yet realize the wealth drawn from individual spontaneity? What is, therefore, the true social contract? Furthermore, to what extent were these various intellectuals influenced in their decisions by their own national experiences? Clio was subjected to a great many pressures in order to “prove” a number of vastly different social programs. Never, in fact, was there such a pressing concern for the rights of the most numerous and the poorer elements in society. All of the thinkers examined here--Owen, Fourier, Saint-Simon, Proudhon, Cabet and Blanc--were agreed that the existing system of property relations generated and perpetuated a ·morally evil and inefficient social system. Western industrialization had brought, or was .bringing, a social order based upon dehumanization and automatism. Thus, the key question was, to quote Louis Blanc again "how to change it?" Their persistent love of humanity led such intellectuals to seek out the real, not necessarily the true, laws· of nature and history. Such laws, they assumed, existed a priori in the universe.
It is the thesis of this study that, although the term individualism was used by a number of critics, the application of this term to specific social conditions which ought to be changed came from the pens of the six Utopian Socialists treated here. It was they who provided the main connotations given to individualism by various dictionaries. For this reason, only passing attention has been given to the various schools founded on their behalf. Within the chronological and geographical framework of this study, the writings of the six thinkers examined here constitute the most important sources in the early socialist movement.
2019-10-28
2019-10-28
1969-05-31
Dissertation
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The comment of travelers in colonial Spanish America, 1708-1824
McGaffey, Laura Belle
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1926.
2016-08-23
2016-08-23
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21383
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The origin, functions, and nature of the tributary system in the Chou times
Lee, Choon S.
Dardess, John W.
Nelson, Lynn
Kounas, Dionysios A.
Lee, Chae-jin
Wurst, Cameron G,:
China --History --Zhou dynasty, 1122-221 B.C.
In this dissertation, the author, Ch’un-sik Yi, used the English version of his name, Choon S. Lee.
2017-07-24
2017-07-24
1980
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24748
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Schurz, Grant, and civil service
Karr, Grace May
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2017-12-22
2017-12-22
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25662
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Educating the Army's Jedi
Benson, Kevin Charles
Wilson, Theodore A.
Spiller, Roger J.
Baumann, Robert F.
Earle, Jonathan H.
Steele, Brent J.
Military history
America--history
This dissertation examines the decisions taken during the development of the concept for the School of Advanced Military Studies and its subsequent refinement in the first ten years of its history. The other line of inquiry in the dissertation is the development, introduction and refinement of the concept of operational art and the operational level of war into U.S. Army doctrine, primarily in the 1982, 1986 and 1993 versions of Field Manual 100-5, Operations.
2011-07-04
2011-07-04
2010-09-22
2011
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11120
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7716
en
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A history of the Amistad captives
Mickey, Marie Elizabeth
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1921. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-08-19
2015-08-19
1921
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18351
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Constructing a Spatial Imaginary: The Formation and Re-presentation of Monte Carlo as a Vacation-Leisure Paradise, 1854-1950
Miller, Robert Warren
Forth, Christopher
Wood, Nathan D
Denning, Andrew S
Rosenthal, Anton
Warf, Barney
History
European history
Modern history
Class
Leisure
Monte Carlo
Spectacle
Tourism
Travel
In 1854, Monaco faced an uncertain future. The principality subsisted on a struggling agro-economy, encountered serious challenges to maintaining its sovereignty, and contained a disgruntled populace overburdened with taxes and state monopolies. European contemporaries perceived the small state as a premodern, peripheral backwater and as a minor stop on the Grand Tour. Within a few short decades, perceptions of Monaco and its newly-founded city, Monte Carlo, changed so radically that the place became the premier vacation-leisure destination for European and American elites and a byword for luxury, pleasure, and cosmopolitanism. Monte Carlo maintained its reputation as a vacation-leisure paradise and as a playground for the wealthy and sophisticated for 150 years. This dissertation examines how, despite seemingly insurmountable disadvantages, Monaco established and maintained a thriving tourist economy from its early unsuccessful attempts to found a tourism industry in 1854 until its irrefutable operation as a site of mass tourism by 1950. It contextualizes how construction of a spatial imaginary, built through a consistent projection of the city’s image, meticulously-crafted through representational space, and mediated, re-mediated, and disseminated by visitors’ accounts, became crucial to Monte Carlo’s lasting success as a remunerative resort-tourism destination. Contrary to previous histories of Monte Carlo’s tourism economy that have emphasized the roles of the state’s liberal gaming laws and the construction of the railroad for its success, this study contends that the construction of the city’s spatial imaginary was the key factor. This dissertation further examines how Monte Carlo’s casino resort functioned as a forum of class anxieties and social distinction as middle-class vacationers began to encroach on the once-exclusive leisure practices of the social elite. An emphasis on spectacle and Monte Carlo’s spatial imaginary allowed casino promoters to navigate the tenuous balance between marketing the resort as an exclusive space and simultaneously operating as a destination of mass tourism. Monte Carlo’s story of success stands as an example of how a consistent spatial imaginary can serve as an economic boon, particularly for tourism-based economies. This is a lesson that cities such as Orlando, Las Vegas, and Macau have learned well as they have capitalized on Monte Carlo’s image, followed the city’s model of remunerative resort tourism, and have developed their own spatial imaginaries to the benefit of their tourism industries.
2016-11-10
2016-11-10
2016-05-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14591
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21878
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The establishment of the national banking system, 1863-1864
Sweedlun, Verne S.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2017-10-19
2017-10-19
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25166
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The five constitutions of the Republic of Mexico
Elliott, Helen Dale
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1925.
2016-03-08
2016-03-08
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20495
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Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
Wellborn, Fred Wilmot
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1923.
2016-03-08
2016-03-08
1923
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20494
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The United States civil aviation policy
Wearing, J. Leo
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2017-08-11
2017-08-11
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24790
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Jules Ferry and Henri Maret: The Battle of Church and State at the Sorbonne, 1879-1884
Hinkel, Troy Joseph
Tuttle, Leslie R.
Corteguera, Luis R.
Heilke, Thomas
Levin, Eve
Wood, Nathaniel D.
History
Europe--history
Modern history
This dissertation examens the battle between church and state at the University of Paris, 1879-1884. Jules Ferry, the Minister of Public Instruction for the French Third Republic, wished to secularize education in France through a series of legislative actions in order to modernize France, as he understood the term. Henri Maret, the Dean of the Theology Faculty at the Sorbonne, sought to prevent this. This dissertation explores the ensuing conflict between Ferry and Maret in order to analyze the strategies and rationalle uitlized by each in order to illustrate ongoing ramifications for larger church and state issues, not only in France, but throughout Europe.
2011-09-22
2011-09-22
2011-04-25
2011
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11447
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8077
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A City Amputated, A Community Regenerated: Munich During and After the Allied Air War, 1939-1948
Arnold, Tom
Brooks, Karl
Worster, Donald
Wood, Nathaniel D.
Baron, Frank
Pergher, Roberta
Europe--history
Military history
Environmental studies
Bombing
Energy
Environment
Germany
Urban
World war II
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 an organism cut off from its food, a city amputated from its vital connections to natural resources--food and fuel--can suffer and even die. This study argues these connections and the transport system that bind them together make a city work. Warfare, especially strategic bombing, disrupts these connections, having huge impacts on citizens' lives. Urbanites are forced to confront their dependence on natural resources and vulnerability to natural forces such as weather. The subject of this study, Munich, experienced these changes both during and after WWII. Between 1939 and 1948, the city descended from thriving cultural metropole to isolated, burned-out wreck, then slowly rallied to become a city on the mend. This study analyzes how wartime bombing and postwar occupation policies damaged and often completely severed Munich's connections to coal, electricity, and food. It uses eyewitness accounts and memoirs to analyze the impacts of these changes in peoples' lives. It combines the ideas and insights of military, urban, and environmental history. By analyzing war's strike against a city's connections, we better appreciate warfare's place in the perennial relationship linking humans to nature.
2012-11-19
2012-11-19
2012-05-31
2012
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12083
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10394
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Theater and Empire: A History of Assumptions in the English-Speaking Atlantic World, 1700-1860"
Harvey, Douglas
Napier, Rita G.
Worster, Donald
Leon, Mechele
Kelton, Paul
Bhana, Surendra
United States--history
Europe--history
Theater
Empire
Cultural history
American revolution
Early republic
Trans-appalachian west
It was no coincidence that commercial theater, a market society, the British middle class, and the "first" British Empire arose more or less simultaneously. In the seventeenth century, the new market economic paradigm became increasingly dominant, replacing the old feudal economy. Theater functioned to "explain" this arrangement to the general populace and gradually it became part of what I call a "culture of empire" - a culture built up around the search for resources and markets that characterized imperial expansion. It also rationalized the depredations the Empire brought to those whose resources and labor were coveted by expansionists. This process intensified with the independence of the thirteen North American colonies, and theater began representing Native Americans and African American populations in ways that rationalized the dominant society's behavior toward them. By utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, this research attempts to advance a more nuanced and realistic narrative empire in the early modern and early republic periods. I include a broader spectrum of performance than is typical in this analysis, giving equal credence to indigenous and African American performances that illuminate the imperial nature of Anglo-American performance. This study strives to contribute to a new understanding of the imperial assumptions of this period and in the process give a stronger voice to the historically voiceless.
2008-08-05
2008-08-05
2008-06-18
2008
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2417
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4024
EN
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Imperial Entrepreneur: Masculinity, Race, and the Memory of Frederick Funston
Wells, Jonathan Patrick
Jahanbani, Sheyda
Jahanbani, Sheyda
Schwaller, Robert
Gregg, Sara
Syrett, Nicholas
Mielke, Laura
American history
Gender studies
Latin American history
American History
Cuba
Frederick Funston
Philippines
Spanish-American War
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? Secondly, this work seeks to answer how and why individuals harnessed these identities after Funston’s death to support various causes? I argue that Frederick Funston became part of a larger narrative about imperialism, and that the conflict between imperialists and anti-imperialists formed the basis for two competing memories of Funston over the next century. Funston started his career as an explorer and used the local newspapers to gain acceptance for his chosen profession. Funston became an entrepreneur of imperialism. He promoted the idea of expansionism and with it he sold himself and his story. His early writings reflect the use of racial and gendered language to pit the “civilized” against the “savage.” Funston used the language of white civilized manhood to demonstrate his superiority over “other” non-white groups. During the Spanish-American War, Funston served in the Kansas 20th and later in the regular army. Imperialists and anti-imperialists used similar language to build support for their respective causes. They used Funston as a symbol for the larger debate over imperialism and cast him as either the melodramatic hero or villain. The way media makers wrote about Funston during his life, reflects the memory of Funston throughout the twentieth century. As long as white martial manhood was hegemonic, the memory of Funston the hero remained dominant. In the 1960s and 1970s the hegemony of white manhood faltered as other groups, like African Americans, Hispanics, homosexuals, feminists, all contested what it meant to be a “real American.” The contest over Funston’s memory continues today in places like Chicago, San Francisco, and Iola.
2021-02-02
2021-02-02
2019-08-31
2019
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16697
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31319
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1872-9556
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Smith or Caesar
Little, Edward Campbell
Snow, F.H.
2011-10-06
2011-10-06
1891
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8116
en_US
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The significance of the treaty of 1806
Cameron, Anna Elizabeth
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1918. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-09-21
2015-09-21
1918
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18471
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Some aspects of the relations of the English lower classes to the criminal system, 1815-1830
Wise, Walter Bailey
A Thesis submitted in the Department of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts.
2014-08-06
2014-08-06
1911-05-29
Thesis
Wise W.B. (1911). Some aspects of the relations of the English lower classes to the criminal system, 1815-1830. University of Kansas.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14892
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Reformers Revealed: American Indian Progressives at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, 1884-1909
Anderson, Eric P.
Napier, Rita G.
Saul, Norman E.
Kelton, Paul
O'Brien, Sharon
Warren, Kim
United States--history
Native American studies
American studies
American Indians
Federal boarding schools
Haskell institute/university
Indian ("red") progressives
Lawrence
Kansas
Progressive era
Haskell Institute opened in1884, an early example of federal off-reservation boarding schools for American Indian youth. The goal was assimilation: strip away traditional languages, spiritual beliefs, tribal customs, even family ties, and replace them with inculcation into the values of Western civilization upheld by white society. In reality, students, whose ages covered a wide range, often clung tenaciously to older, more familiar ideals. This study looks broadly at the effects of this conflict in the mindsets and behaviors of both students and administrators at the school (and similar institutions). Because Haskell's first quarter-century overlaps with much of the period scholars call "The Progressive Era" in U.S. history, the time frame investigated yields rich data regarding new thinking about educational and social reform. While recent literature on the boarding school system has blossomed, the link between its activities and the larger picture of American Progressivism has not been firmly established within the context of a specific school. By the dawn of the nineteenth century, Haskell Institute was becoming the largest of these federal education outlets, making its success of especial consequence, both because it affected great numbers of students (and their support networks) and served as a model for promoting policy goals. Understanding how Haskell grew and became an increasingly accepted part of the American Indian experience requires the realization that native peoples played an active role in shaping the contours of their own education. While their "partnership" with government functionaries was often limited, the input they provided, through a variety of means, had measurable consequences for the direction and overall influence of the school. In this way, Haskell students (as well as their families, tribal leadership, and a growing vanguard of American Indian elites, themselves often the product of similar educational experiences) may be viewed through the lens of Progressive reform. Precisely defining Progressivism is difficult, but Indians' active participation at Haskell did affect visible change in their education, and comprised another, overlooked example of Progressives in action. Through attendance records, administrative and curricular changes, personal letters and reminiscences, development of a more native-centered school newspaper, elimination (or tempering) of the most egregious aspects of boarding-school life, or other means, a tangible American Indian Progressivism emerges, with its ultimate aim retention of core elements of native cultures and traditions. Thus they were not simply victims of government or outside social engineering, but active participants in the education process. The intertwining of both federal directives and native hopes in the development of Haskell makes a fascinating case study of Progressive activism and reform, the ability to affect quiet change within an oppressive institutional atmosphere, the recognition of a strong native voice in this period, and the interdependence of the boarding-school system and American Indian peoples in establishing (often quite different) measures of "success" in this education. The survival of Native American peoples, customs, and Haskell itself, as a place today celebrating that persistence, is strong testimony to this Indian Progressivism and the works and lives of those who came before.
2010-03-18
2010-03-18
2009-12-10
2009
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10673
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6013
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The United States radio policy to 1927
Smith, Edna Maude
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1927.
2016-07-21
2016-07-21
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21149
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A History of Irrigation in the Arkansas River Valley in Western Kansas, 1880-1910
Sorensen, Conner
Anderson, George L.
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 Arkansas River Valley of western Kansas, in particular the community around Garden City, Kansas. This history attempts to relate the development of irrigation in the Arkansas Valley through its formative years, 1880-1910. The term "Arkansas River Valley" as used here refers to that portion of the valley of the Arkansas in the Counties of Hamilton, Kearny, Finney, Gray, and Ford, and the adjacent uplands which were influenced by the practice of irrigation. Statistitcs generally refer to those counties unless otherwise stated. The author is indebted to his advisor, Dr. George L. Anderson, who suggested the topic and provided guidance and encouragement toward its completion. Most of the research was done in the Kansas State Historical Society whose staff was most understanding and helpful. Among the many friends of irrigation in western Kansas special thanks are due to Mr. Clyde Beymer of Lakin who furnished abstracts to the South Side, Great Eastern, and Amazon Ditches, Mr. Edward Dekeiser of Deerfield who loaned a large plat of the Amazon Canal, the Garden City law firm of Calahan, Green, Calahan, and High and to their secretary Mrs. Luava Golightly (who is also secretary of the Finney County Water Users' Association) who provided free access to the Records of the Water Users' Association. Thanks are also due to the county officials in Hamilton, Kearny, Finney, Gray, and Ford Counties who provided assistance in locating and copying local records.
2013-05-01
2013-05-01
1968
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11088
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Frederick the Great of Prussia
Nickel, Henri
2011-10-06
2011-10-06
1887
Undergraduate research project
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8110
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Disposal of the Civil War Navy
Botts, Thomas Warfield
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1931.
2017-11-27
2017-11-27
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25485
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Spain in European reconstitutions of 1814-1815
Breece, Howard David
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1932.
2017-06-08
2017-06-08
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24431
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Crossing Germany: Eastern European Transmigrants and Saxon State Surveillance, 1900-1924
Schmidt, Allison
Wood, Nathan D
Jahanbani, Sheyda
Levin, Eve
Scott, Erik
Vanchena, Lorie
European history
World history
Modern history
Austria-Hungary
Germany
migration
Saxony
state
transmigrants
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, early-twentieth centuries, large numbers of eastern Europeans passed through Germany on their way to northern European ports to sail to the Americas. Studying transmigration, the “process of migration” as Gur Alroey defines it, gives insight into the economic and state mechanisms that controlled migration and which routes migrants took as they travelled overseas. In 1894 due to health concerns and costs incurred by transporting rejected immigrants back from the United States, the Prussian state and German shipping companies set up control stations along the Prussian-Russian border. Here steamship agents reviewed both the travelers’ health and financial capability. The stations gave preferential treatment to German steamship customers, yet the German government also had a vested interest: these checkpoints prevented ‘undesirable immigrants’ from entering its territories. Sizeable eastern European transmigration appeared not only in Prussia, but also in another eastern German province, Saxony. This dissertation focuses particularly on a transmigrant registration station (opened in 1904) at the railroad hub of Leipzig and checkpoints (opened in 1905) on the Saxon-Bohemian border. The growing literature on transmigration has focused on the influence American immigration policy and German steamship companies had over these stations. Instead, I emphasize the vital role the German state played in migration surveillance, with health officials and policemen managing the movement of the travelers. This research challenges the historiographical notion of lax state migration control prior to World War I and enriches understanding of the journey European migrants undertook before arriving in the New World.
2018-01-28
2018-01-28
2016-05-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14466
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25743
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A history of the Church of the Brethren in Kansas
Craik, Elmer Leroy
Includes bibliographical references.
2015-12-04
2015-12-04
1916
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19086
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The Origin of the Whig Party
McCluggage, Robert Tyler
2011-11-23
2011-11-23
1912-06-04
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8498
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The Indian policy during Grant's administration
Newkirk, Edna M.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2017-04-13
2017-04-13
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23656
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The annexation of Korea
Kuo, Poyu
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2017-01-03
2017-01-03
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22418
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In Lincoln's Shadow: The Civil War in Springfield, Illinois
Prichard, Jeremy
Earle, Jonathan H.
Jahanbani, Sheyda
Warren, Kim
Wilson, Theodore
Schumaker, Paul
American history
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War
Memory
Political
Social
Springfield
Illinois
This dissertation examines the political, social, and economic development of Springfield, Illinois - Abraham Lincoln's home - during the American Civil War. It argues that Lincoln's martyrdom following the war and his assassination preserved the city's position as Illinois's state capital, despite the local populace's mixed attitudes toward him during his presidency. He won the 1860 and 1864 presidential popular vote in Springfield by a combined seventy-nine ballots. He failed to carry his own Sangamon County in either election. When he and his family departed for the White House in February 1861, they left a deeply partisan community that only strengthened over four years of war. Before he became Springfield's chosen son in death, he was a polarizing figure in the heart of Illinois. Simultaneously, Abraham Lincoln said farewell to a town struggling to keep pace with the population growth and economic development occurring elsewhere in the Prairie State due to the rise of industrialism. Lincoln's death, including the controversial burial that followed, reversed both trends, bringing momentary unity to a community facing uncertainty during the country's most trying period.
2017-05-07
2017-05-07
2014-12-31
2014
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13805
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23945
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American public opinion of Denmark during the German occupation, 1940-1945
Rambusch, Sigurd
M.A. University of Kansas, History 1957
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.
2019-10-18
2019-10-18
1957-05-31
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29638
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Who Paid the Bill? Germany and American Fiscal Responsibilities in the Revival of Germany after World War II
Krueger, Hans Juergen
Lewis, Adrian R
Wilson, Theodore A
Wood, Nathan
Kipp, Jacob
Stephenson, Scott
Marx, Leonie
European studies
Military history
military occupation
occupation costs
post-World War II Germany
reparations
Stuttgart
US occupation zone
The objective of the dissertation was to prove that after World War II, between May 1945, and the statehood of the Federal Republic of Germany in September 1949 1. The Germans in the three western occupation zones of the United States, Great Britain, and France could not have survived mass starvation without the food aid provided by the Allied military forces and the United States starting in late 1945. 2. The contributions the western Allies levied from the people of their respective occupation zones in form of occupation costs, reparations, restitutions, and confiscations by far surpassed all Allied food aid, as well as the financial aid provided by the United States through the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan. 3. The German economy would have survived/restarted without Marshall Plan aid. However, it would have taken much more time to catch up with the other European economies. Looking at the pure occupation costs levied in the three western occupation zones, these costs surpassed all Allied aid by far. Occupation costs of $5,944 billion face Allied aid figures from $2,691 billion to $3,277 billion, a rough ratio of 2:1. Computed with the lowest amount of reparations of $4.44 billion, shifts the ratio of occupation costs/reparations to Allied aid to 3.5:1, a surprising and not anticipated result of the study.
2017-05-07
2017-05-07
2016-05-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14492
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23938
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"Many Paths in This Road of the Spirit": The Flexibility of Women's Religiosity in Early Modern Spain
Hersh, Taylor
Corteguera, Luis R
Vicente, Marta V
Clark, Katherine
Brown, Marie
Manning, Patricia W
European history
Women's studies
Religious history
Gender
Marriage
Mystics
Reformation
Theologians
Witches
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 challenge of articulating the parameters of acceptable religious behavior during an era of widespread reform, the tensions between official and unofficial religious practice created the possibility of flexibility in women’s religiosity. However, this flexibility had its limits since rhetoric surrounding religious practice did not separate the idea of a good woman from a good Christian woman, and women were expected to express religion within society’s definition of good womanhood. Focusing on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this dissertation is divided thematically into four chapters. Chapter 1 focuses on theologians’ prescriptive literature and descriptions of women’s ideal religiosity, and Chapter 2 examines male and female-authored sources about women’s life cycle in order to see how religiosity was acted out in day-to-day practices. Chapter 3 draws upon women’s accounts of their own religiosity, especially autobiographies of female mystics, and shows how women drew from concepts of good womanhood to justify their claims of mystical experiences. Chapter 4 considers how Inquisition trials of women accused of sorcery and witchcraft offer insight into why women believed they were acting as good Christians even when inquisitors did not see it that way. This dissertation is significant because it encourages a reevaluation of seemingly fixed binaries in the early modern period. It recognizes that women’s religious flexibility was more acceptable and apparent during a time when power relations were being rearticulated and binaries were being redefined. In doing so, this dissertation challenges scholarship that suggests women were simply limited by religious reform or gained agency because they manipulated a male-dominated system.
2019-05-07
2019-05-07
2017-05-31
2017
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15336
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27785
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The Coils of the Anaconda: America's First Conventional Battle in Afghanistan
Grau, Les
Wilson, Theodore A.
Kipp, Jacob W.
Carlson, Maria
Willbanks, James H.
Baumann, Robert F.
Military history
Afghanistan
Al qaeda
Anaconda
OEF
Taliban
Us army
Operation Anaconda was America's first conventional battle in Afghanistan. America's first battles did not always turn out as victories. Bunker Hill, Bull Run, Kasserine Pass, Task Force Smith, the Ia Drang Valley-all were hard-fought American fights which ended in retreat or a draw. Operation Anaconda was hardly a defeat. American forces entered a hostile fortified zone, fought the enemy to a standstill and then evicted him. US casualties were comparatively light. Enemy casualties were heavy. At the end of the fighting, the battlefield was in American hands and the enemy did not want to resume the contest. Indeed, the conventional enemy force was shattered. Operation Anaconda involved the forces of seven nations and US Armed Forces personnel from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force. It was America's largest and longest light-infantry fight since Vietnam. It was the highest altitude land battle in US history. It was the Canadian Armed Forces first ground combat since the Korean War. Total allied losses were six Afghans and eight Americans killed and 53 Afghans and 86 Americans wounded. Taliban and Al Qaeda forces were smashed, suffering hundreds of casualties and limping away demoralized and disorganized. The battle was clumsy, but decisive. It was won by the combined efforts of American Armed Forces, Afghan ground forces, Canadian Light Infantry and special forces from a variety of nations. It was a pick-up fight that started off badly, but training, good will and professionalism pulled the operation together. It was Al Qaeda's last conventional fight and America's first conventional fight in Afghanistan. It broke the back of Al Qaeda and hastened their departure from the country. Lessons learned in air-ground coordination were successfully applied during the invasion of Iraq. As with any military operation or, indeed, human endeavor, Anaconda had its warts and problems. Operation Anaconda generated several books, most in support of an agenda. What makes this dissertation different is that it: covers the entire battle instead of the first three days; provides a more-balanced view of air power and ground power in the battle; provides a historic view of Afghanistan before the events of 9/11; provides a good enemy picture; identifies the culminating event of the battle and provides an analysis of what went right and what went wrong.
2011-07-04
2011-07-04
2009-05-04
2009
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10386
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7771
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Measuring Tolstoy's Peasants: Old Believer Settlement in Oregon through the 1960's and 1970's
Antley, Jeremy Scott
Levin, Eve
Wood, Nathan
Scott, Erik
Miller, Timothy
O'Brien, Joe
History
Slavic studies
American studies
Modernity
Oregon
Russian Old Believers
Tolstoy Foundation
Valley Migrant League
As ethnic Russian Old Believers began to immigrate into the area around Woodburn, Oregon in the 1960s, their presence became a fixation for American interlocutors who viewed the new arrivals as traditional peasant figures on the path towards becoming modern citizens. Because this Russian religious group possessed little to no context for American administrators, academics, and citizens alike, attempts to build knowledge networks around the Old Believers became paramount in the first decade of their settlement in the United States. Initially assisted by the Tolstoy Foundation and, later, the Valley Migrant League, the Oregon Old Believers often became targets of character rhetoric that sought to measure the distance between the traditional lifestyle of the Russian religious group and the modern milieu amongst which they lived. Various academics, reporters, and lay observers alike built knowledge networks around the Russian religious group through reports, articles, and direct interactions that could qualify and define the distance between Old Belief and American modernity. Yet as the Old Believers took on recognized standards of American modernity- home ownership, gainful employment, and consumer consumption- they did so without wholesale abandonment of their religious culture, prompting anxiety amongst American observers who questioned the power of modernity to fully assimilate traditional subjects. Beyond being another example of the trials faced by immigrants in a new land, this examination of Old Believer settlement in Oregon asks why American interlocutors became fascinated with the Russian religious group and how this fascination led to investigation and self-affirmation of American modernity.
2017-05-15
2017-05-15
2016-12-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15049
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24210
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History of national pure food and drug legislation in the United States to 1906
Shillington, Jessie
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1925.
2016-06-30
2016-06-30
1925
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21057
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Forging Imperial Cities: Seville and Formation of Civic Order in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Stillo, Stephanie
Corteguera, Luis
Vicente, Marta
Kuznesof, Elizabeth
Schwaller, Robert
Manning, Patricia
History
European history
Latin American history
auto de fe
cities
Francisco Pacheco
Habsburgs
Mexico City
Seville
In 1503 the Spanish monarchy awarded the city of Seville a monopoly on Spanish-American trade. Serving as the gateway to Spain's lucrative Atlantic Empire for over two centuries, the city fashioned itself as an imperial capital, and natural successor to ancient Rome. Despite never serving as the official capital to the Spanish Habsburgs, civic authorities in Seville nonetheless expressed their city's wealth and nobility through an excess of laudatory histories, artwork, architectural renovations, and regional patron saints. This dissertation first contextualizes Seville's prominence by exploring how Phillip II's refusal to establish a permanent capital in Madrid until 1561 promoted competition between many cities in Castile, all of which saw themselves as potential contenders for the future imperial court. As Spain moved into Atlantic territories, this competition helped fashion the urban organizational strategy for colonial settlement in the New World. As Seville was the most important city in Spain during the early modern period, the city greatly influenced the conceptualization and development of Spanish-American cities between the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Colonial capitals such as Mexico City found in Seville a language for expressing their inclusion in the Habsburgs' global empire through lavish ceremonies and architecture which could establish their New World cities as distinctly Spanish and Catholic. By placing Seville at the center of the empire, my research will act as an amendment to contemporary Spanish historiography which has failed to fully recognize the influence of Andalusia in early colonial development.
2017-01-08
2017-01-08
2014-05-31
2014
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13249
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22527
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British treaties for the suppression of the slave trade
Leonard, Leatha
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1928.
2016-08-23
2016-08-23
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21380
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David R. Atchison, Senator
Malin, James Claude
Includes bibliographical references.
2015-10-06
2015-10-06
1916
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18595
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Bodies for Battle: Systematic Training in the U.S. Army’s Physical Culture, 1885-1958
Gatzemeyer, Garrett
Lewis, Adrian
Weber, Jennifer
Bailey, Beth
Jahanbani, Sheyda
Haider-Markel, Don
History
Military history
American history
Exercise
Fitness
Masculinity
Military Training
Physical Culture
Physical Education
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 technology in the late nineteenth century, a few young officers advocated systematic physical training as a means of improving the Army’s manpower to meet the mounting physical and mental demands of combat. These advocates, most notably West Point’s Herman Koehler, drew on contemporary popular fitness culture and the professionalizing field of physical education to craft a new culture and associated system of exercise that has informed approaches to physical training in the U.S. Army ever since. Using archival sources, published training manuals, and professional journals serving military officers and physical educators, this study illuminates that original culture’s system of values, beliefs, and assumptions, then traces its change over time to 1958. This study finds that change primarily resulted from the influence of empowered institutional outsiders who applied cutting-edge physical education knowledge and expertise to orient the Army’s physical culture evermore on producing measurable physiological outcomes, especially after 1942. However, impulses driven by scientific rationalism existed alongside and interacted with relatively stable core values and beliefs, such as man’s central role in battle despite technological change, the Army’s role as a man-building agency, and definite connections between physical exercise, moral fiber, and mental strength. The Army’s physical culture also consistently existed at a nexus between intersecting concerns that influenced its development and motivated its deployment outside the Army into civilian society. Significant intersections included anxieties about American masculinity and fitness in an era of industrial war that demanded the deep mobilization of populations, and the changing relationship between man and machine in war. Beyond providing a rich description of the U.S. Army’s physical culture and training system as it evolved over the first half of the twentieth century, this study pioneers the investigation of martial physical culture as a profitable and as-yet understudied avenue for historical research.
2019-05-19
2019-05-19
2018-12-31
2018
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16273
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/28063
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The Cold War and American Education
Marden, David L.
Tuttle, William
Griffith, William J.
Gainer, Bernard
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 President Truman and Senator McCarthy. It is the thesis of this study that, while the role of national leaders in fostering America's Cold War consciousness cannot be ignored, in some ways the forging of that consciousness was affected only marginally by the President and other national political leaders. To anyone familiar with the course of American life during the 1960s, it must be obvious that a sturdy anticommunism bred of a Cold War mentality had a deep and lasting impact. Such a deep imprint could not have been left by the actions of political leaders alone; other American institutions must also have had a hand in its forging.
With these assumptions behind it, this study began as a search for the origins of a "Cold War culture." It soon, however, evolved into an attempt to trace the interaction between
the Cold War and one aspect of that culture--American education. It is hoped that by examining the patterns of interaction between the Cold War and American education and educators, this study will contribute to a fuller understanding of the grip of the Cold War upon American life.
2013-06-04
2013-06-04
1975-10
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11209
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Littoral Limits: Flood Insurance and the Quantification of Risk in the United States, 1914-2018
Rumsey, Brian Edward
Cushman, Gregory T
Gregg, Sara M
Moran, Jeffrey P
Farber, David R
Earnhart, Dietrich H
History
Environmental studies
Climate change
Flood
Flood insurance
Insurance
NFIP
Risk
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. These three concerns come together under the unifying theme of limits: the practice of quantifying and making policy on the basis of floodplain boundaries has entailed the determination and contestation of limits to which land is favored for diverse uses, and which land might best be regulated to limit flood hazard exposure. This project is carried out in large part via a case study of the National Flood Insurance Program, a federal program that has driven flood risk knowledge production and floodplain land use policy in the United States since its creation in 1968. The mid-twentieth century, when federal involvement in flood insurance was debated and eventually enacted, was a time of overt tension between two approaches to flood-prone lands. One of these approaches, floodplain management, prioritized managing human inhabitation and usage of flood-prone lands in order to limit exposure to hazard. The other approach, flood control, emphasized building structures that restrict or divert floodwaters in order to make flood- prone areas safer for inhabitation. In other words, floodplain management involved determining natural limits and using them to constrain land use, while flood control involved pushing the limits of acceptable land use deeper into flood-prone terrain. Proponents of both approaches were involved in the flood insurance debate, with expert theorists more in favor of floodplain management, and politicians and other interests more divided between approaches. This dissertation concludes that while the NFIP has indeed made some tangible contributions to the adoption of floodplain management practices in the United States, its most significant influence has been to help maintain extant development and inhabitation practices in flood-prone areas, iii even in the face of natural limits that are shifting due to climate change as well as land use change. This is not due to the triumph of one of the two approaches mentioned above, so much as it is due to a third, implied but rarely enunciated, approach at work: flood insurance as a taxpayer-subsidized way of protecting development that falls within harm’s way. This case study of flood insurance provides insights into the deeply ingrained drive to derive profit from the development of the natural world, using sources including archival records, Congressional hearings, newspapers, gray literature, and published scientific articles. For different groups that take an interest in flood-prone land, economic development means different things. For propertied interests, it means the ability to maximize the financial worth of their properties. For managerially-minded academics and experts, it often means minimizing governmental hazard exposure, thereby minimizing human impacts and taxpayer burden. The history of the NFIP reveals that, in conjunction with other federal programs, the scales have tipped ever more heavily toward the promotion and stabilization of real estate as an investment vehicle, for both middle-class and wealthy homeowners and large-scale developers. This is a status quo that is becoming increasingly unstable and untenable as hurricanes and the specter of climate change and sea level rise call into question the economic and engineering logics of stationarity on which federal flood insurance and flood control have been based. This project makes several historiographical contributions. It contributes to environmental history via its examination of the quantification of the natural world in a different way than environmental histories of production and extraction. It contributes to U.S. political history by highlighting the enduring relevance of an often-overlooked Great Society program. Finally, it contributes to the history of disaster by demonstrating how hazard mapping can be perceived to be a catastrophic event.
2019-05-12
2019-05-12
2018-05-31
2018
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15986
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27894
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A history of the establishment of the Kansas state government
Gaeddert, Gustave Raymond
History
Social sciences
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, History, 1937.
2020-08-26
2020-08-26
1937-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30675
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"No Sacrifice is too Great, save that of Honor": Honor, Death, and Psychological Combat Trauma in the American Civil War
Sheffer, Debra J.
Wilson, Theodore A.
Spiller, Roger
Earle, Jonathan H.
Kelton, Paul
Steele, Brent J.
Military history
United States--history
Medieval history
Civil war
Death
Honor
Nostalgia
Psychological combat trauma
Warfare
Examination of honor culture and attitudes toward death and dying found in letters, diaries, and newspapers - from the colonial and revolutionary period through the Civil War era - strongly suggests that Civil War soldiers did not suffer from psychological combat trauma. Psychological combat trauma is as much a part of today's war as uniforms and ammunition, but this was not the reality for Civil War Americans. The truth is that all wars are terrible for those who fight them, and physical stresses of battle have been part of warfare in every age. Twentieth-century ideas of the psychological effects of war differ vastly from those of the nineteenth century. Civil War battle offered potential for psychiatric trauma. Civil War soldiers, however, lived in a time of different expectations and beliefs about honor and death and dying. Expectations for psychiatric trauma for these soldiers did not exist. This dissertation uses research in honor culture, masculinity studies, and attitudes toward death and dying to illustrate the idea that nineteenth-century cultural ideals of honor and death reduced or prevented psychological consequences of combat in Civil War soldiers.
2009-08-31
2009-08-31
2009-04-08
2009
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10323
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5456
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The report of Alonzo de Zurita
Riggs, Hazel May
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1923.
2016-05-03
2016-05-03
1923
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20744
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"An Uprising of the People": Military Recruitment in New York State During the Civil War
Hickox, William D.
Weber, Jennifer L.
Jahanbani, Sheyda
Wilson, Theodore A.
Welsh, Peter H.
Mielke, Laura L.
American history
History
Military history
American Civil War
military
mobilization
New York
recruitment
war
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 war’s beginning in 1861, New York State was preeminent for having the largest population and strongest economy of the United States, and Governor Edwin D. Morgan had an influential role in the Republican Party. The federal government assigned manpower quotas and other directives but relied on—and often deferred to—state governments and their citizens in military recruitment. In a society of small government infrastructure, Morgan and other leaders depended on the support of ordinary citizens, their communities, and associational culture to raise manpower. New Yorkers saw the war effort as voluntary—even after the advent of conscription in late 1862—and tried to mitigate the conflict’s drastic social and economic effects by securing enough volunteers to avoid drafting, opening the military’s ranks to nearly anyone willing to serve, and debating the terms of their obligations to the cause. The second half of the war saw widespread recruitment fraud and conflicts over quotas as New Yorkers sought to preserve traditions of voluntarism and personal choice.
2018-10-24
2018-10-24
2017-12-31
2017
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15602
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27014
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Roscoe Conkling and the Grant administrations
Smock, Lee Anna Jewell
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1931.
2017-04-26
2017-04-26
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23798
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FROM DEPENDENTS TO INTERDEPENDENCE: THE ARMY WIFE IDEAL AND THE MAKING OF ARMY FAMILY POLICY, 1942-1983
McMurray, Mary Angelina
Warren, Kim C.
Bailey, Beth
Forman-Brunell, Miriam
Metz, Brent
Schofield, Ann
History
Women's studies
Military history
Army Family Policy
Army officer's wife
Army wife ideal
Army wives
military dependents
military wives
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 influx of married soldiers entering the Army during WWII, the historically-rooted Army officer’s wife ideal provided a platform for the Army to shape the millions of brides into what military leaders needed for success—devoted morale boosters dedicated to the Army and its mission. In codifying the ideal and altering it after the war to engage soldiers’ wives as advocates for the Army and its mission, purveyors of the ideal also created a platform for wives to shape the Army into what they needed to meet the unique demands associated with life married to service. Actual Army wives, as individuals and as part of national advocacy organizations, modeled the foundational elements of the ideal while simultaneously challenging the Army, Department of Defense, jurists, and national leaders to help them address the realities they faced married to the Army. Their efforts made it clear that the strength of the Army was closely tied to the strength of the Army family. Those who engaged in defining and shaping the meaning and responsibilities of Army wives (and, more broadly, military wives) shaped U.S. Army family policy and transformed the Army from an institution that viewed families as merely dependents to one that embraced them as interdependent partners.
2019-05-10
2019-05-10
2017-12-31
2017
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15089
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27835
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Marsupials and monotremes in pre-Darwinian theory
Dugan, Kathleen Garnette
History of science
Ph.D. University of Kansas, History, 1980
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. Attempts to accommodate these animals within the existing theoretical framework strained accepted explanatory theories. The failure to provide adequate explanations pointed to the limitations of existing theories and thus contributed to the development of a radically new theoretical structure--Darwinian theory.
The marsupials and monotremes presented biologists with peculiarities of anatomy, classification, geographic distribution, and fossil history which could not easily be explained within the traditional frame of reference. These same general issues were central to the theoretical debates which led to the development of the Darwinian theory of evolution. Thus marsupials and monotremes provided empirical evidence with which to test new theoretical principles. In some instances the evidence directly suggested an evolutionary approach. In other, new, unexpected evidence was easily accommodated within an evolutionary framework.
Chapter I discusses aspects of the philosophy of science (particularly the role of anomalies in the development of scientific theory) and the sociology of science (particularly the nature of colonial science) which affected the theoretical debates on the issue. Early theories of marsupial reproduction, discussed in Chapter II, provide the necessary historical background to the nineteenth-century debates. Chapter III discusses the importance of the discovery of mammals, allegedly marsupials, in the Mesozoic strata of Europe and its effect on theories of uniformitarianism, progression, and evolution. Chapter IV outlines biologists' attempts to explain the unique features of the Australian environment. Chapter V discusses the theoretical problems posed by the monotremes (egg-laying mammals) and the failure of pre-Darwinian theory to resolve these difficulties.
This study investigates the effect of the problems presented by marsupials and monotremes on the development of Darwinian theory. One cannot claim that the anomalies presented by these animals by themselves discredited pre-Darwinian biological explanations, nor can one claim that they directly pointed to the new explanatory model which would be developed. Rather, they presented astonished biologists with facts which contradicted their expectations, facts which necessarily had to be accommodated within any new explanatory system. These anomalies were manipulated by scientific adversaries to argue for or against particular theoretical models.
2020-08-13
2020-08-13
1980-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30605
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Special Observers: A History of SPOBS and USAFBI, 1941-1942
Anderson, Richard
Lewis, Adrian R.
Wilson, Theodore A.
Jahanbani, Sheyda
Atchley, Paul
Curatola, John M.
Military history
International relations
Anglo-American Cooperation
Anglo-American Planning
James E. Chaney
Special Observers
SPOBS
USAFBI
In late spring, 1941, a small group of U.S. Army officers traveled to Britain to plan for Anglo-American cooperation if and when the U.S. entered World War II. Because the United States was still a neutral country and to prevent potential enemies from knowing the group's purpose, the U.S. Army called its mission to Britain the "U.S. Army Special Observer Group" (SPOBS). From May, 1941 until June, 1942, SPOBS (known as U.S. Army Forces in the British Isles or USAFBI after January 8, 1942) developed plans with the British for establishing U.S forces in the British Isles. Changing strategic conditions however, made much of this work obsolete. As a result, the Allies had to develop new plans for establishing U.S. combat power in Britain. The fact that the Allies never implemented SPOBS’ plans in their entirety has led scholars to underestimate the significance of the group’s work with the British. This study asserts that the process of planning that the Special Observers engaged in with their British counterparts played an essential role in setting the conditions for Anglo-American cooperation in the European Theater.
2017-05-15
2017-05-15
2016-12-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15019
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24209
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Chapters in the Legislative History of Land Distribution
Brook, Elizabeth Cable
2011-11-23
2011-11-23
1913-06
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8508
en_US
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Cultivating Capital: Country Bankers and the Transformation of the Central Great Plains, 1870-1940
Miller, Jaclyn J.S.
Gregg, Sara M
Warren, Kim C
Schofield, Ann
Kelton, Paul
Morris, Sara
American history
Banking
Community History
Country Bankers
Great Plains
Kansas
Bankers in the Central Great Plains region of western Kansas played a significant part in transforming their communities from frontier outposts into components of a modern region. Between 1870 and 1940, country bankers came to see themselves as reformers and advisors in the process of transforming their towns into viable parts of a regional economy, and their influence was considerable. This dissertation contextualizes bankers’ multiple functions within rural communities and adds nuance to popular portrayals of predatory moneylenders. Bankers representing towns typically less than 5,000 in population served as economic, social, and political leaders instrumental in their development. The decisions they made shaped the fortunes of a specific set of rural communities as they navigated severe economic, social, and political challenges, but this story of country bankers driving development efforts while balancing the cultural and social traditions of rural America replicates trends from around the U.S. West and the nation. Contrary to the reputation of businessmen as heartless usurers, these bankers operated instead as cultivators of economic, political, and social power within their communities and the region. They shared the interests of farmers and other rural businesspeople in facing the changes of a modernizing nation.
2016-11-10
2016-11-10
2016-05-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14548
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21877
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The Persistence of Advertising Culture: Commerce and Consumers in Multi-Ethnic Galicia, 1911-1921
Burks, Drew Patrick
Wood, Nathaniel D
Levin, Eve
Scott, Erik R
Denning, Andrew S
L'Heureux, Marie-Alice
Vassileva-Karagyozova, Svetlana
Modern history
European history
East European studies
Advertising Culture
Habsburg History
Marriage Advertising
Polish History
Urban History
World War I
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 remarkable measure of superficial resilience. This study explores the resilience of newspaper advertising culture despite the violence and turmoil experienced during and after the First World War. It seeks to explain the ways in which advertising proved adaptable and the ways that it subtly, but significantly, changed. Both newspaper culture and advertising as a mode of social communication survived the war years and the unstable years in the early interwar period. This is a testament to their integral nature in the character of the modern cities of Cracow and Lemberg. The system of newspaper advertising had been in place for over a decade before the war broke out; and the level of its usage in the immediate years preceding the war is evidence of its familiarity, utility, and acceptance among the populations of Cracow and Lemberg. Though some areas of modern life suffered lapses that seemed to arrest the effects and benefits of modernization, newspaper advertising survived the war because it was an established part of urban culture prior to this period, and because it was able to adapt to the needs of advertisers during times of conflict. Further, as a reflection of the urban culture in Cracow and Lemberg, advertising as a mode of social communication serves as a lens to highlight changes in class and gender dynamics during the period from 1911 to 1921.
2019-09-06
2019-09-06
2018-12-31
2018
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:16162
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29553
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The break-down of the monopoly of the East India Company in 1813
Ramalingam, Solomon
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1924.
2016-07-21
2016-07-21
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21145
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Relief work in Kansas, 1856-1857
O'Meara, Edith
Submitted to the Department of History and the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
2013-06-12
2013-06-12
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11237
en_US
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Practical humanitarianism in eighteenth century France
Moore, Katherine Louella
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1931.
2017-04-26
2017-04-26
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23791
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The legislative history of the Capper-Volstead Act
Tillman, William Richard
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1932.
2017-02-28
2017-02-28
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23307
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Railroad building which made Kansas City a center
Rush, Elmer Ellsworth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
2015-07-11
2015-07-11
1916
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18222
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Lever and agriculture, 1913-1917
Smith, Marc Jack
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1932.
2017-02-28
2017-02-28
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23302
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The Financial Policy of William Pitt, 1784-1802
Warkentin, John Henry
2011-11-22
2011-11-22
1908
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8429
en_US
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The organic system of the French National Constituent Assembly of 1789-1791
Christoff, Theodore
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1926.
2017-01-03
2017-01-03
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22434
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Luther as an educator
Fritze, Andrew C.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2017-02-28
2017-02-28
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23316
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Logistics Matters: the Growth of Little Americas in Occupied Germany
Kruger, Linda Lee
Wilson, Theodore A
Marx, Leonie
Lewis, Adrian
Levin, Eve
Wood, Nathan
Kipp, Jacob
History
cultural exchange
Germany
Occupation
U. S. Army logsitics
World War II
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. assigned occupation zone. Both missions required logistics support, an often unstated but critical mission. The security mission, provided largely by the combat troops, declined between 1945 and 1948, but grew again, with the Berlin Blockade in 1948, and then with the Korean crisis in 1950. However, the occupation mission grew under the military government (1945-1949), and then during the Allied High Commission era (1949-1955). The build-up of U. S. Army infrastructure during the early occupation years has stood forward-deployed U. S. military forces in Europe in good stead throughout the ensuing years. The United States military force, predominantly the U. S. Army, was the only U. S. Government agency possessing the ability and resources needed to support the occupation mission. Furthermore, U. S. Army logistics support underpinned not only the U. S. military occupation mission between 1945 and 1949, the U. S. presence on the Allied High Commission until its official retirement in 1955, but also the U. S. security forces on the ground throughout the entire period and for decades later. The objectives in this study are threefold. First, to validate that U. S. Army logistics in the U. S. Zone of Occupation in Germany between 1945 and 1949 laid the foundation for the long-term presence of the U. S. Army in Germany. Second, to analyze the rationale for the build-up of logistics during this period. Third, to analyze the impact of U. S. Army soldiers, aspects of their logistics support mission, and family members on the German population.
2016-01-03
2016-01-03
2014-12-31
2014
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13716
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19574
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The movement to create a national gallery of art in eighteenth-century France
Connelly, James L.
France
Eighteenth century
Museums
This dissertation was submitted to the Department of History and Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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 museum of art during the decades before 1789. This examination of the attempts made in pre-Revolutionary.France to bring the crown collections to the people is an effort to make a contribution, however. small, to the cultural history of France generally, to the history of the Louvre as a museum peripherally, and to the cultural and intellectual history of the Old Regime particularly.
2020-06-18
2020-06-18
1962-12-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/30558
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Popular propaganda in the French Revolution, 1789-1792
Dielmann, Reta Hazel
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1920. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2015-06-18
2015-06-18
1920
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18120
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The Origin of the South Sea Company, 1710-1714
Jenks, Leland H.
A Thesis submitted in the Department of History in the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
2014-08-12
2014-08-12
1914-05-18
Thesis
Jenks, Leland H. "The Origin of the South Sea Company, 1710-1714." University of Kansas. May 18, 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14911
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National park legislation from 1872 to 1916
Erwin, Elizabeth Margaret
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1927.
2016-09-30
2016-09-30
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21589
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Popularism vs. Bonapartism. A study of certain initial phases of the mobilizing of nineteenth century liberalism
Hess, Bartlett Leonard
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1932.
2017-08-11
2017-08-11
1932
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24795
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Governor Glick (Kansas) and prohibition, 1883-1884
McIlvain, Zelma Edna
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1931.
2017-08-11
2017-08-11
1931
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24776
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Invading Sexuality: Perception and Response in Postwar Japan, 1945-1957
Schneiderwind, John David
Tsutsui, William
Greene, J. Megan
Moran, Jeffrey
Uchiyama, Benjamin
Takeyama, Akiko
Asian history
Gender
History
Japan
Occupation
Sexuality
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 how prostitution, sex education, birth control, and obscenity served as crucial lenses to understand how the occupier and occupied attempted to shape sexuality within a complex Occupation power structure incorporating both the victorious Allied Forces and the defeated Japanese government. Rather than proposing a narrative of a dominant occupier subjugating the occupied, this dissertation shows how that dual-power structure allowed Japanese politicians and activists to undermine Occupation reform in order to mitigate perceived negative influences upon domestic notions of proper sexuality and reaffirm a Japanese-constructed sexuality for post-Occupation sovereign Japan.
2016-01-02
2016-01-02
2015-05-31
2015
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14054
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19485
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The purchase of Alaska
Kilgore, Maud Chase
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1917. ; Includes bibliographical references.
2016-01-06
2016-01-06
1917
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19711
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The trust question, 1890-1900
McDonald, Ruby Zelma
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2017-06-08
2017-06-08
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24434
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The beginnings of the church in Mexico, 1520-1600
Norrington, Mary Edna
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1924.
2016-09-12
2016-09-12
1924
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21489
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Freedom of speech and press during the great war
Wirt, Catharine
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1923.
2016-02-25
2016-02-25
1923
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20372
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/256882018-02-01T22:11:56Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_776col_1808_1952col_1808_13939
Politics of Communication: Writing, Gender, and Royal Authority in the Spanish Empire (1556-1665)
Olivares, Irene
Corteguera, Luis R
Vicente, Marta V
Schwaller, Robert C
Schieberle, Misty
Kuznesof, Elizabeth
European history
Women's studies
Communication
Gender
Petitions
Royal Authority
Spanish empire
Women's writing
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, nurturing, and feminine ideals were part of the monarchy’s political power. Ideas about the Spanish monarchy’s obligation to listen to its subjects provide this different picture of politics in the Spanish empire. While multiple studies have pointed out that the ideal of communication was a prominent feature of royal authority in early modern monarchies, scholars have not fully investigated how this idea affected the process of politics and the social life of the period. This dissertation finds that the king’s obligation to listen to his people transformed the pleas of women’s petitions into relevant political matters by allowing women to hold the king accountable to his duties. This dissertation also argues that the expectation for communication placed feminine ideals on the power and authority of the king by requiring him to listen to and to nurture his people. The monarchy’s obligation to fulfill these duties shaped the perimeters of what the monarchy could and could not do, shaped the standing of subjects in the empire, and subjects’ obligations to the monarchy. Looking at how the ideal of communication affected the monarchy and its people provides a new point of departure from which to consider moments of discord and harmony in the trajectory of the Spanish empire.
2018-01-02
2018-01-02
2016-05-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14641
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25688
en
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The Deterioration of Chinese Influence in the Monoglian People's Republic, May, 1957 to December, 1960
Alexiou, Jon James
People’s Republic of China
Mongolian People’s Republic
Soviet Union
Outer Mongolia
Foreign relations Mongolia
M.A. University of Kansas, History 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 of influence. At the same time, this subject offers a unique opportunity to study the interaction of China and the Soviet Union in the quest for influence.
Although a number of sources have been utilized, the main research has been done with translations from Chinese and Soviet newspapers and new agency releases. Because of the paucity of information dealing with the recent period of Outer Mongolian history, it has been necessary to speculate on the importance of a number of incidents, and small events take on a much larger meaning only when viewed in the light of a continuing process of lessening Chinese influence in Outer Mongolia.
2019-02-04
2019-02-04
1968
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27680
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Color No Longer A Sign of Bondage: Race, Identity and the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment (1862-1865)
Ringquist, John Paul
Wilson, Theodore A.
Myers, Garth
Spiller, Roger J.
Mullis, Randy
Earle, Jonathan H.
History
African American studies
Military history
Abolitionists
Arkansas
Kansas
Slave soldiers
USCT
"Color No Longer A Sign of Bondage" is an account of the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment from its earliest days in 1862 to the regiment's triumphant return to Kansas in November 1865. This work encompasses the racial attitudes of the black and white communities of Kansas, Indian Territory, and Arkansas, and the military service of the regiment through campaigns in the service of the Union's Army of the Frontier. The evolution of white support for black enlistment in Kansas, the regiment's acceptance by white Union regiments, and the concurrent conflicts with Confederate sympathizers and military organizations are central themes of this work. Although black military service in the Union was not officially countenanced in Kansas prior to 1863 and the Emancipation Proclamation, the First Kansas Colored fought for recognition and shed blood despite the opposition of Kansas civil and military authorities alike. The irregular enlistment and employment of the regiment jeopardized its existence through the fall of 1862, and despite official disapproval the regiment survived to become a vital part of the Army of the Frontier. White and black Kansans alike took note of the regiment's military service and through the sterling service of the regiment in an unforgiving theater of war, the regiment won the admiration of white regiments and a skeptical black civil populace. The deeds of the First Kansas Colored in battle and in garrison ultimately undergirded the black drive for civil rights and proved that black men could serve as soldiers in an army that often relegated its black soldiers to fatigue duty. The First Kansas Colored was a fighting regiment that won honors in Kansas, Indian Territory, and Arkansas and by its actions demanded respect. The manhood denied to blacks prior to the Civil War was not won through legal battles, but through courageous conduct in war and the blood shed by its soldiers in combat. The First Kansas Colored never faltered in its service to the Union; nor did it fail its supporters and the families of those who served in its ranks. The First Kansas Colored proved that color was no longer a sign of bondage and, although recognition for its deeds often proved ephemeral, its legacy endures.
2011-11-12
2011-11-12
2011-08-31
2011
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11743
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8372
en
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Organization for world peace: pioneer phase, 1815-56/61
Cruickshank, Earl Fee
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1927.
2016-09-07
2016-09-07
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21463
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Encountering the Enlightenment: Science, Religion, and Catholic Epistemologies Across the Spanish Atlantic, 1687-1813
Klaeren, George Alan
Corteguera, Luis R
Kuznesof, Elizabeth
Vicente, Marta
Schwaller, Robert
Arias, Santa
European history
Philosophy of science
Religious history
Catholicism
early modern history
enlightenment
epistemology
philosophy of science
Spain
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 ascertaining this knowledge. This period of epistemic rupture in Spain and her colonies, commonly referred to as the Enlightenment, not only presented new ways of knowing, but inspired impassioned debates among leading intellectuals about the epistemology and philosophy that continued throughout the century. The previous scholarly literature has largely dismissed Spain’s intellectual activity in the eighteenth-century, arguing that its predominantly conservative and Catholic culture stifled innovation and relegated it to a peripheral and derivative position in the broader European Enlightenment. Only recently have scholars given serious attention to the conception of a widespread “Catholic Enlightenment.” This dissertation places the intellectual and religious activity of the eighteenth-century Spanish empire within this Catholic Enlightenment, specifically examining the ways in which religious intellectuals mediated and contested Enlightenment thought. It particularly highlights the works of Counter-Enlightenment thinkers who engaged eighteenth-century philosophy but ultimately rejected it. This dissertation examines the leading theological, philosophical, and scientific writings of religious intellectuals, university professors, natural philosophers, and physicians in eighteenth-century Spain, New Spain, and Peru, additionally considering personal letters, Inquisitorial evidence, and writing from the popular press of the period. In so doing, it assesses the way in which such writings contended for an epistemology which would satisfy both the new philosophies and sciences as well as the Catholic faith; showing how eighteenth-century Spaniards defined the relationship between these fields and how they conceived of the disciplines of knowledge. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that the work of Catholic Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment individuals in Spain was less radical than the philosophies adopted by French or British counterparts. The Spanish Enlightenment experience was the result of a deliberate, thoughtful, and careful negotiation between ancients and moderns and an attempt to conciliate new methods of knowledge into the existing Scholastic framework which had been held in the Spanish empire for centuries, rather than accepting a complete epistemological rupture. It demonstrates the role of conservative intellectuals in contesting epistemological hegemony in the mid-eighteenth century by proposing alternative, and at times, mutually exclusive, systems for understanding and pursuing truth. It similarly shows how these epistemological debates impacted the way that Spaniards conceived of the relationship between science and religion. This, in turn, impacts the way in which historians understand both the way that Spain related to the European community, especially France, during the eighteenth century, as well as the way that various religious groups encountered the Enlightenment movement.
2019-05-07
2019-05-07
2017-05-31
2017
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:15254
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27796
en
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/190162018-01-31T20:07:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_776col_1808_1952col_1808_13939
Confronting the Environmental Crisis: Anti-Environmentalism and the Transformation of Conservative Thought in the 1970s
Boynton, Alex John
Gregg, Sara M.
Worster, Donald E.
Russell, Edmund P.
Moran, Jeffrey P.
Brown, J. Christoper
History
1960s
1970s
Conservatism
Conservative Intellectuals
Environmental Ideas
Environmentalism
“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, it was an incredibly diverse political philosophy capable of sheltering a number of disparate strains of thought under its broad canopy. But these strains did not always exist in harmony with one another. In fact, for much of the period under consideration, the four major conservative philosophies – traditionalism, libertarianism, fusionism, and neoconservatism – existed in explicit tension within one another. Unless the ideological barriers separating these contrasting impulses were somehow smoothed over, American conservatism would remain fractured and incapable of influencing national politics in any meaningful way. This dissertation argues that opposition to environmentalism in the 1970s served as a unifying force for American conservatism. It served as the glue that held together the opposing varieties of conservatism despite the persistence of ideological divisions in other areas of thought. The emergence of conservative anti-environmentalism in the 1970s owed much to the transformation of the American environmental movement. In the 1960s, many conservative intellectuals supported the environmental protection because they believed their philosophical principles supported environmental protection. But beginning in the 1970s, the environmental movement transformed into something that American conservatives no longer recognized. They perceived that their values no longer aligned so neatly with those held by environmentalists. Some conservative intellectuals continued to support environmental measures, but for many more this divergence in values led them to repudiate their former position and to embrace an unyielding opposition to environmentalism. By the end of the 1970s, anti-environmentalism had become a defining feature of American conservatism. The unification of American conservatism around anti-environmental ideas created aftershocks that altered not only the political landscape of environmental issues in the 1970s, but the whole of twentieth and twenty-first century America. Translating these ideas into politics in the 1970s and subsequent decades proved extremely difficult. But, as “Confronting the Environmental Crisis” demonstrates, conservative anti-environmentalism in the 1970s helped contribute to the polarization of American political rhetoric concerning the environment in lasting ways. Contemporary polarization of issues such as global warming and climate change, for example, demonstrates the impressive resilience of the conservative intellectual opposition to environmentalism. The contemporary American political landscape bears scars that can be traced back to the tumult of the 1970s.
2015-12-02
2015-12-02
2015-05-31
2015
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14032
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19016
en
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The United States and international conferences, 1878-1881
Gillum, Spencer Leo
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2016-10-13
2016-10-13
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21717
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Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J.: History and the French Atlantic World in the Short Eighteenth Century, 1682-1761
Hawthorne, Margaret R.
Corteguera, Luis
Fourney, Diane
Kelton, Paul
Kuznesof, Betsy
Vicente, Marta V.
History
Europe--history
Atlantic world
Charlevoix
France
Enlightenment
French colonies
North America
Jesuit
Abstract This dissertation demonstrates that Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. (1682-1761) constructed in his historical writings a French Atlantic World that evolved during what I have termed the Short Eighteenth Century. The years 1682-1761 represent Charlevoix's lifespan as well as the approximate lifespan of the French colonial enterprise on what was, for them, the far side of the Atlantic Ocean. Charlevoix wrote about his world from multiple perspectives, all of which are evident in his writings. This study examines four of Charlevoix's works, La Vie de Marie de l'Incarnation (1724), Histoire de l'Isle Espagnole (1736), Histoire de la Nouvelle France (1744), and Histoire du Paraguay (1756) to elucidate those perspectives as well as their evolutions. It is evident that Charlevoix hoped to see the French Atlantic colonial enterprise prosper, but underthe auspices of the Catholic Church. The biography of Marie de l'Incarnation indicates how critical it was for the Jesuits to guide the spiritual development of those throughout the French Atlantic World. The other three works considered here continue that theme, but also reflect Charlevoix's fading optimism regarding the French and the Jesuits and the roles they would play in the Atlantic World. By the end of the short eighteenth century, neither the French nor the Jesuits were forces with which to be reckoned, and the French Atlantic World was but a weak reflection of potential never reached.
2008-08-05
2008-08-05
2007-12-27
2007
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2296
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4016
EN
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"Certainly the Proper Business of Woman": Household and Estate Management Techniques of Eighteenth-Century French Noblewomen
Utech, Sally
Tuttle, Leslie R.
Corteguera, Luis R.
Vicente, Marta V.
Clark, Katherine
Neill, Anna
Europe--history
Eighteenth century
France
Household and estate management
Noblewomen
Notaries
This project explores the legal, economic, and social aspects of household and estate management in eighteenth-century France. It investigates two paradoxes surrounding noblewomen and household management. The first involves society's view of women's appropriate social, economic, and legal activities. The second centers on women's preparation for household and estate management. Using manuscript sources from noblewomen and their household advisors, as well as official notarial documentation, this study charts how, through household and estate management, women contributed to the social, economic, and legal landscapes of France in the eighteenth century. In addition, it examines the role of household advisors, such as notaries, lawyers, and experienced members of the domestic staff, in helping women overcome their educational and experiential deficiencies when they assumed responsibility for estates and households. Current historiography on eighteenth-century French nobility tends to normalize the experiences of men, implying either that women's experiences conformed to those of their male counterparts, or that exploring the lives of noblewomen does not reveal much about society. This project addresses this issue by detailing the unique social and economic contributions of women as household and estate managers.
2011-07-04
2011-07-04
2010-10-12
2010
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11177
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7720
en
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THE CORE WAY: THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: 1942-1968
Johnson, Crystal Lynn
Tuttle, William
Moran, Jeffrey P.
MacGonagle, Elizabeth
Wilson, Theodore A.
Woelful, James
History
Civil rights movement
Congress of racial equality
Nonviolent direct action
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) pursued a vision to bring racial harmony to a nation divided. CORE--regionally known as the Chicago Committee of Racial Equality--began in the spring of 1942 in Chicago through the work of James Farmer, George Houser, Bernice Fisher, Homer Jack, James Robinson, and Joe Guinn. This group of young idealists directed its attention to social action and according to August Meier and Elliott Rudwick applied Gandhian techniques of nonviolent direct action to the resolution of racial conflict in the United States. THE CORE WAY: THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT--1942-1968 reexamines CORE, its members, philosophies, and transitions. Chapter one, A New Reflection: Revisiting the Voices of CORE's Past--The Birth of CORE 1942, looks at the formation of the organization in 1942 and the development of its foundational principles and ideas. Chapter two, Reconciling the Journey of Reconciliation: The Revealing of the Congress of Racial Equality--1947, looks at the Journey of Reconciliation and how CORE put into practice nonviolent direct action--one of its main ideological principles. Chapter three, Until the Cup That We Drink from Is the Very Same: The 1961 CORE Freedom Ride, builds upon chapter two with a look at the Freedom Ride of 1961. It chronicles the overwhelming commitment of the organization to racial integration and harmony. Chapter four, We're Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: The Transitional CORE Years--1960-1966, begins to highlight the fracturing of CORE and its transition away from some of its traditional initiative, campaigns, but more importantly foundational principles. Finally, chapter five, The Opening of Pandora's Box: CORE at a Crossroads, examines the shift away from the original goals of CORE and the creation of a new direction.
2011-10-09
2011-10-09
2011-08-31
2011
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11675
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8133
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The Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in England
Crawford, Clarence Cory
2011-10-18
2011-10-18
1903
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8242
en_US
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Managing the Empire’s Wealth: Environmental Thought during Spain’s Golden Age, 1492-1618
Davidson, Harley
Corteguera, Luis
Gregg, Sara
Cushman, Greg
Rosenthal, Anton
Arias, Santa
European history
Environmental philosophy
Cosmography
Cosmology
Environment
Spain
Wealth
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 conquest of the Americas, resource scarcity and the need for careful resource management defined Spanish environmental thought. Afterward, the idea that the Americas could provide infinite wealth took precedence. But as the century progressed and the empire declined, people from different parts of Spanish society--municipal councilmen, conquistadors, royal cosmographers, and royal reformers--reconciled these two ideas into one line of thought: abundant wealth could be harmful if not managed correctly. This dissertation situates Spanish economic thought within the broader discussion on European economic history, the history of science, and environmental thought.
2018-01-28
2018-01-28
2016-05-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14620
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25751
en
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/210742017-12-08T21:36:10Zcom_1808_776com_1808_1260col_1808_13939col_1808_7158
French industry, 1786-1792
Hardin, Iva
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1922.
2016-07-08
2016-07-08
1922
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21074
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/64422020-08-03T14:21:24Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_776col_1808_1952col_1808_13939
Osage Gender: Continuity, Change, and Colonization, 1720s-1870s
Edwards, Tai S.
Kelton, Paul
Napier, Rita
Warren, Kim
Cushman, Gregory T.
Ward, Joy
United States--history
Native American studies
Colonization
Gender
Indigenous peoples
This study demonstrates how the Osage structured their society based on gender complementarity, and although life certainly changed in the face of French, Spanish, and United States colonization, the Osage maintained this gender construction and resisted complete colonization through the nineteenth century. Osage rituals clearly demonstrate gender complementarity. Their worldview stressed duality and defined women and men as necessary pairs. Men provided and protected; women created. The Osage employed a sexual division of labor, and each gender achieved status and power in distinct ways. Gender difference did not imply hierarchical difference between the sexes. Rather men and women cooperated to ensure tribal perpetuation and success. Gender complementarity proved one of the most stable aspects of Osage society throughout colonization. In the eighteenth century, the Osage developed one of the most expansive trading systems in North America. Scholars argue that once the Osage began trading with the French, they increased their hunting to obtain more hides and furs, expanding the male role in society at the expense of the female role. This dissertation disproves such declensionist assertions about the status of Osage women in their society. During the eighteenth century, the Osage achieved regional dominance through the work of women, in agriculture and hide processing, and men, in raiding and hunting. When the United States expanded farther west during the nineteenth century, Osage regional hegemony deteriorated. Yet, federal Indian policy's contradictions facilitated Osage resistance to colonization. While missionaries attempted to change lifeways, federal support for the hide trade encouraged the Osage to maintain historic gendered work as both a spiritually relevant and economically successful social organization. Once removed to Kansas, a volatile environment and increasing settler depredations facilitated further resistance to missionization and the civilization program. Therefore the Osage spent their time hunting and processing hides, a far more successful survival strategy in this environment. Colonization initiated some changes to Osage life, but women were not increasingly subordinated to men. As long as Osage cosmology and subsistence followed the patterns developed before colonization, gender roles remained intact.
2010-07-25
2010-07-25
2010-04-16
2010
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10845
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6442
EN
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/213602017-12-08T21:42:12Zcom_1808_776com_1808_1260col_1808_13939col_1808_1951
Harmony Mission, 1821-1837
Denton, Doris
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
2016-08-23
2016-08-23
1929
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21360
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/213852017-12-08T21:38:01Zcom_1808_776com_1808_1260col_1808_13939col_1808_1951
Metternich: exponent of stability
Morgan, Brewster
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1927.
2016-08-23
2016-08-23
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21385
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/224322020-06-23T20:10:12Zcom_1808_776com_1808_1260col_1808_13939col_1808_1951
French and German trade in the economic policy of the United States, 1860-1880
Burgtorf, Josephine Lucile
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1926.
2017-01-03
2017-01-03
1926
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22432
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/243132017-12-08T21:46:53Zcom_1808_776com_1808_1260col_1808_13939col_1808_1951
A Strange Odyssey: The Sumner Welles Mission to Europe
Wibel, Michael N.
Wilson, Theodore A.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1968.
2017-05-26
2017-05-26
1968-02
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24313
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Era Bell Thompson: Observations of an American Daughter on the American South and the African Congo
Zacharias, Karenbeth Garvin
Jahannbani, Sheyda
Alexander, Shawn
Alexander, Shawn L.
Bailey, Victor
Jahanbani, Sheyda F.
Moran, Jeffrey P.
Schroeder, Elinor
Black history
Africa--history
American congo
Black identity
Chicago
Congo
Journalist
North Dakota
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 childhood on the Great Plains of North Dakota and her long-time residence in Chicago offer a new perspective on race and history outside the American South or European colonialism. Using Thompson's autobiography, American Daughter, and her African travelogue, Africa, Land of My Fathers, the dissertation uses her writing as both a lens and a mirror. African American newspapers and periodicals, particularly The Chicago Defender, are important to the project as many of Thompson's early ideas about the American South germinated from the paper's front page headlines. Throughout the dissertation poetry is utilized to convey the moment and the mood. Historical connections between the American South and Congo beginning in the early 1800s provide important historical context. The outcry against the brutality of King Leopold II's Congo Free State at the beginning of the twentieth century is connected to outcries against the American Congo, featured headlines in 1919 and 1920.
2013-02-17
2013-02-17
2012-12-31
2012
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12534
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10821
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The attitude of Erasmus towards the medieval church
Frederick, James V.
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1928.
2016-07-21
2016-07-21
1928
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21160
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The Lords of Trade and Plantations
Clarke, Mary Patterson
2011-10-27
2011-10-27
1905
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8278
en_US
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United States economic and military assistance policy toward China during World War II and its immediate aftermath
Rahman, A.F.M. Shamsur
Social sciences
Economic policy
Postwar
China
Ph.D. University of Kansas, History 1988
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. Operation of Lend-Lease assistance occupies a major part of this study, which was definitely the first major commitment of the U.S. resources for the large scale reconstruction of another country's economy. Although the aid given during wartime was basically intended to strengthen the capacity of China to resist the Japanese aggression, all U.S. aid programs had far reaching effects on China's post-war industrialization and economic development. Besides Lend-Lease, the other major U.S. programs to aid China were participation in the operation of UNRRA and the dispatch of an American War Production Mission to China. The short term objective of tying down three million Japanese soldiers in China superseded America's long-term objective of a unified, democratic and friendly China.
Although U.S. aid programs to China failed to achieve a major success owing to the corruption of Kuomintang officials, an outbreak of intensive civil war, and also lack of proper coordination and information about China's actual situation, it profoundly affected the United States' later relations and assistance policy toward other countries. The U.S. emerged as a major economic giant to influence the reconstruction and development of the global economy. On the other hand, China's process of westernization was largely begun because of this U.S. aid effort.
2021-02-08
2021-02-08
1988-05-31
Dissertation
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31388
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Discourses of Distance: Conceptions of Geographic and Cultural Space in the British Atlantic, 1607-1776
Jeter-Boldt, Michael Duane
Clark, Katherine RP
Clark, Jonathan CD
Corteguera, Luis
Weber, Jennifer
Sousa, Geraldo
History
Atlantic World
Britain
Caribbean
Distance
Travel literature
This study examines travelers’ perceptions of distance as they moved about the British Atlantic World in the period from the founding of the first English settlement in North America at Jamestown in 1607 to the American Declaration of Independence in 1776. Distance here is understood to encompass the familiar expressions (physical space, time between locations) and alternate conceptions, including the sense of distance created by differing cultural markers and levels of economic development. Perceptions of distance arising from attributional factors illuminate how observers, using England broadly and London specifically as cultural benchmarks, understood the place of the various components of the First British Empire and an emerging trans-Atlantic imperial British national identity. Travelers’ experiences confirm the existence of internal peripheries within the Atlantic Archipelago, conforming to the so-called “Celtic fringe” that includes the Scottish Highlands, Ireland, Welsh uplands, and Cornwall. Across the Atlantic, observers understood attributional distance, perceptible from the late seventeenth century, between Britain’s North American colonies and the metropole made retention of these colonies in the imperial framework increasingly challenging. Most surprisingly, I argue that in the late eighteenth century, travelers’ perceived the Caribbean colonies, long denigrated in the historiography as degenerate and displaying no signs of British social norms, as the most physically proximate to Britain due to the Caribbean colonists’ ability to replicate British norms and customs.
2017-05-15
2017-05-15
2016-12-31
2016
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14995
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24203
en
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University of Kansas
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Freeing France: The Allies, the Résistance, and the JEDBURGHs
Jones, Benjamin Forrest
Sweets, John F.
Bailey, Victor
Kelly, Van
Saul, Norman E.
Spiller, Roger J.
Wilson, Theodore A.
Military history
Europe--history
Modern history
Jedburgh
Unconventional war
Coalition warfare
France
Special operations
World war II
General Dwight D. Eisenhower used the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur to conduct a guerilla war against German forces during the Allied campaigns in France. The study below examines the Allied politics, the nature and the development of the French Résistance, and the actions of the German forces in France to evaluate how useful the deployment of 93 JEDBURGH teams were in their role to conduct an effective guerilla war aiding Allied military objectives. Disagreements between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle led to Eisenhower's inability to get the most out of the effort. Under certain conditions, Eisenhower and the French with British and American support achieved limited success. Eisenhower's recognition of de Gaulle's authority over the Résistance and his insistence on placing a French commander in charge of the effort proved to be the single greatest factor in the successes gained with the JEDBURGHs.
2010-09-03
2010-09-03
2008-08-20
2008
Dissertation
http://dissertations2.umi.com/ku:2663
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6625
EN
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Cicero's letters as a historical source
Grassley, Edith Jane
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1927.
2017-01-03
2017-01-03
1927
Thesis
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22408
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ARRIVING AT A COMMON GROUND: JOHN REED SWANTON AND AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY
DeSanti, Brady James
Kelton, Paul
Moran, Jeffrey P.
O'Brien, Sharon
Warren, Kim
Wilson, Theodore A.
America--history
Native American studies
Anthropology
Ethnohistory
Native people
Southeast
Swanton
United States--history
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, Swanton's research methods anticipated ethnohistory. His contributions to Native Southeast studies remain indispensable and his work in the Native Northwest, particularly with Haida and Tlingit communities, continues to serve as an important reference point for many scholars. Reared in the "Boasian" school of thought, John Swanton rejected both evolutionary and racial frameworks in which to evaluate Indian cultures. He remained an exemplary anthropologist from the beginning of his professional career at the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1900 through his retirement in 1944. A key aspect of this study concerns the dynamics of the individual dialogs that took place between Swanton and some of his Indian informants. These interactions provide a window into the ways in which anthropologists and Indians interacted. At times, anthropologists and Indian collaborators grasped the other's intentions. Just as often, however, the two parties held incompatible expectations, and as a result, misunderstand each other. For example, Swanton appreciated the storytelling creativity and individual artistry of his Haida collaborators, but often overlooked the intentions of the southeastern Indians who shared their stories with him. Many of the creation stories southeastern Indians told Swanton referenced the difficult circumstances they were currently facing or had undergone in the recent past, such as attacks on their cultures, removal, and alcoholism. Swanton often disregarded creation stories that included such material, as he felt they indicated cultural loss.
2013-02-17
2013-02-17
2012-08-31
2012
Dissertation
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12392
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10824
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