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Dissertations, 1995-1999

1999

  • BARCLAY, PAUL "Japanese and American Colonial Projects: Anthropological Typification in Taiwan and the Philippines."
  • BITTER, MICHAEL "A British Embassy to St. Petersburg: George, Lord Forbes, and the Anglo-Russian Commercial Treaty, 1733-1734."
  • CAMPBELL, JOELLEN "Theater of Negotiation: The Political Voice of Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid."
  • ENKE, ANNE "Locating Feminist Activism: Women's Movement and Public Geographies, Minneapolis-St. Paul, 1968-1980."
  • FOROUGHI, ANDREA "Ephemeral Town, Enduring Community: Space, Gender, and Power in Nininger Minnesota, 1851-1870."
  • GENGENBACH, HEIDI "Where Women Make History: Pots, Stories, Tattoos, and Other Gendered Accounts of Community and Change in Magude District, Mozambique, c. 1800 to the Present."
  • GOEKEN, RONALD "Unmarried Adults and Residential Autonomy: Living Arrangements in the United States, 1880-1990."
  • GROBERG, KRISTI "Petropolitan Reliquary: Temple of the Resurrection on the Blood, 1881-1998."
  • HACKER, J. DAVID "The Human Cost of War: White Population in the United States, 1850-1880."
  • JELATIS, VIRGINIA "Tangled Up in Blue: Indigo Culture and Economy in South Carolina, 1747-1800."
  • MEERSE, KATHERINE "Progressives for Peace and Social Justice: The Minnesota Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1921-1941."
  • MICHAELSON, AARON "The Russian Orthodox Missionary Society, 1870-1917: A Study of Religious and Educational Enterprise."
  • MOTT, LAWRENCE "The Best Manned Fleet Ever Beheld the Catalan-Aragonese Fleet in Sicily During the War of the Sicilian Vespers AD 1282-1295."
  • MULCAHY, MATTHEW "Melancholy and Fatal Calamities: Natural Disasters and Colonial Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1623-1781."
  • POHLANDT-MCCORMICK HELENA "'I Saw a Nightmare . . . ' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976."
  • RUSSO, JEAN "'The Interest of the County': Population, Economy, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Somerset County, Maryland."
  • RYDEN, DAVID "Producing a Peculiar Commodity: Jamaican Sugar Production, Slave Life, and Planter Profits on the Eve of Abolition, 1750-1807."
  • SIMER, CHRISTOPHER "Apocalyptic Visions: Fear of Aerial Attack in Britain 1920-1938." S
  • SPEAR, JENNIFER "'Whiteness and the Purity of Blood': Race, Sexuality, and Social Order in Colonial Louisiana."
  • WHITFIELD, CHRISTINA "No Time to Play: Tobacco-Growing Families and the Great Depression."
  • YAO, YUSHENG "National Salvation through Education: Tao Xingzhi's Educational Radicalism."

1998

  • AURAND JR., HAROLD "Regional Origin and Political Culture on the Upper Susquehanna Frontier, 1750-1800."
  • BERGER, JEAN "The Daily Life of the Household in Medieval Novgorod."
  • BHAUMIK, PRADIP "British Foreign Policy and France, 1868-1880: A Study in Great Power Diplomacy."
  • BOWMAN, GLEN "John Ponet: Political Theologian of the English Reformation."
  • BYNUM, GORDON "Juan Luis Vives and the Inner Life: The Mind, Soul and Formation of Prudence."
  • CATTERALL, WILLIAM D."Community without Borders: Scots Migrants and the Changing Face of Power in the Dutch Republic, 1600-1690."
  • COX, JAMES "A World Together, A World Apart: The United States and the Arikaras, 1803-1851."
  • GARDNER, TODD "The Metropolitan Fringe: Suburbanization in the United States Before World War II."
  • GONZALEZ, LUIS "Law, Hegemony, and the Politics of Sugarcane Growers Under Getulio Vargas: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1930-1950."
  • GUENTHER, LOUISE "The British Community of Bahia, Brazil, 1808-1850."
  • HUR, GOO SAING "Commonwealth, Social Order and the Tudor Poor Laws."
  • MAZIS, JOHN "The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa (1871-1917) Private Charity and Diaspora Leadership in Late Imperial Russia."
  • NESS, JOHN "The Southwestern Frontier During the Ming Dynasty."
  • PERICA, VJEKOSLAV "Religious Revival and Ethnic Mobilization in Communist Yugoslavia: A History of the Yugoslav Religious Question from the Reform Era to the Civil War, 1965-1991."
  • PILZ, JEFFREY "'Bread Cast Upon the Waters': The Efforts of George Henry Evans to Reform his America."
  • SCHLOFF, LINDA "Building Community, Building Bridges: Jewish American Women's Organizations in Minneapolis, 1945-1975."
  • STEUER, KENNETH "Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American Y.M.C.A. and Prisoner-of-war Diplomacy Among the Central Power Nations During World War I, 1914-1921."
  • VINK, MARCUS "Encounters on the Opposite Coast. Cross-cultural Contacts Between the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century."
  • WHEELER, LEIGH "Rescuing Sex from Prudery and Prurience: Women's Anti-Obscenity Reform on the Local and National Level, 1911-1935."
  • WOLFF, ROBERT "Racial Imaginings: Schooling and Society in Industrial Baltimore, 1860-1920."

1997

  • AILES, MARY "From British Mercenaries to Swedish Nobles: The Immigration of British Soldiers to Sweden during the Seventeenth Century."
  • CAMERON, JOEL "The Politics of Trade: The German Foreign Office and Economic Relations with Soviet Russia, 1919-1928."
  • DIAZ, ARLENE "Ciudadanas and Padres de Familia: Liberal Change, Gender, Law, and the Lower Classes in Caracas, Venezuela, 1786-1888."
  • DIEHL-TAYLOR, CHRISTIANE "'Business Shall Proceed In The Following Manner:' Corporate Managers, the Bureaucratization Process, and the Creation of Divergent Corporate Cultures, 1880-1938."
  • DILLON, LISA "Between Generations and Across Borders: Living Arrangements of the Elderly and their Children in Victorian Canada and the United States."
  • JIANG, YONGLIN "The Great Ming Code: A Cosmological Instrument for Transforming 'All under Heaven'."
  • KIRCHMANN, ANNA "'They are Coming for Freedom, Not Dollars:' Political Refugees and Transformations of Ethnic Identity Within Polish American Community After World War II."
  • LOWRY, PAUL "The Truman Administration Policy in Palestine November 1947-December 1952."
  • MAHER, S. "Reforming Rome: The Society of Jesus and its Congregations at the Church of the Gesu."
  • MEYER, PAULETTE "Women Doctors Refashion a Men's Profession: Medical Careers of Nineteenth-Century Zurich University Graduates in Germany."
  • MOUTON, MICHELLE "From Nuturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk: Conflicts in the Implementation of German Family Policy, 1918-1945."
  • SMITH, SUSANNAH "Soviet Arts Policy, Folk Music, and National Identity: The Piatnitskii State Russian Folk Choir, 1927-1945."
  • SOBEK, MATTHEW "A Century of Work: Gender, Labor Force Participation, and Occupational Attainment in the United States, 1880-1990."
  • STRASSER, ULRIKE "'Aut Murus Aut Maritus?' Women's Lives in Counter-Reformation Munich (1579-1651)."
  • TAYLOR, MICHAEL "Regionalism and Religious Conflict in Imperial Germany, 1914-1918."
  • TREUER, ANTON "The Assassination of Hole in the Day."
  • TUENNERMAN-KAPLAN, LAURA "Helping Others, Helping Ourselves: Philanthropic Communities in Cleveland, Ohio 1880-1930."

1996

  • AGUIRRE, CARLOS "Criminology and Prison Reform in Lima, Peru, 1860-1930."
  • BIGGS, DOUGLAS "'Then you Perceive the Body of Our Kingdom': The Royal Affinity of Henry IV, 1399-1413."
  • CLARK, RHONDA "Forgotten Voices: Women in Periodical Publishing of Late Imperial Russia, 1860-1905."
  • DAHL, KATHLEEN "At the Center of the Movement Towards Enlightenment: Louise Keralio Robert and the French Revolution."
  • DOYLE, DANIEL "The Body of a Woman but the Heart and Stomach of a King: Mary of Hungary and the Exercise of Political Power in Early Modern Europe."
  • DUXBURY, SUSAN "The Redistribution of Wine From Southampton in the Fifteenth Century."
  • EDWARDS-SIMPSON "Sicilian Immigration to New Orleans, 1870-1910: Ethnicity, Race, and Social Position in the New South."
  • HORNIBROOK, JEFFREY "Mechanized Coal Mining and Local Political Conflict: The Case of Pingxiang County, Jiangxi Province in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries."
  • KULISHECK, PATRICIA "'The Favourite Child of the Whigs': The Life and Career of Henry Bilson Legge, 1708-1764."
  • LANE, KRIS "Mining the Margins: Precious Metals Extraction and Forced Labor Regimes in the Audiencia of Quito, 1534-1821."
  • MCDOWELL, WINSTON "The Ideology of Black Entrepreneurship and Its Impact on the Development of Black Harlem, 1930-1955."
  • PRUDEN, ELIZABETH "Family, Community, Economy: Women's Activity in South Carolina, 1670-1770."
  • RAYSON, DAVID "'A Great Matter to Tell:' Indians, Europeans, and Africans From the Mississippian Era Through the Yamasee War in the North American Southeast, 1500-1720."
  • SWANSON, JOHN "A Search for Stability in an Era of Transition: Austria and Hungary in the New European Order, 1918-1922."
  • THALER, PETER "Constructing National Identity in an Advanced Society: The Austrian Experience."
  • WIMMER, LINDA "African Producers, European Merchants, Indigenous Consumers: Brazilian Tobacco in the Canadian Fur Trade, 1550-1821."
  • WOODARD, DAVID "Sectionalism, Politics, and Foreign Policy: Duff Green and Southern Economic and Political Expansion, 1825-1865."
  • YELENGI, NKASA "The Impacts of the Construction and Development of the Port Francqui-Bukama Railroad on the Rural Population of Katanga, Belgian Congo. The Case of the Luba of Haut-Lomami (1923-1960)."

1995

  • BROWN, JAMES "The Family as Process: Family and Economy in Lower Austria, 1788-1848."
  • CHILUNDO, ARLINDO "The Economic and Social Impact of the Rail and Road Transportation Systems in the Colonial District of Mocambique (1900-1961)."
  • CURRIN, JOHN "Henry VII and the Politics of Europe, 1485-1492: Diplomacy and War at the Accession of the Tudor Regime."
  • DACHOWSKI, ELIZABETH "The Serpent and the Dove: The Career of Abbo of Fleury."
  • DAVIDANN, JON "A World of Crisis and Progress: Christianity, National Identity, and the American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930."
  • DOWNS, JENNIFER "Famine Policy and Discourses on Famine in Ming China, 1368-1644."
  • EDWARDS, MARTHA "Physical Disability in the Ancient Greek World."
  • GROSS, STEPHEN "Family, Property, Community: Class and Identity Among German Americans in Rural Stearns County, Minnesota, 1860-1920."
  • JONES, BARBARA "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in United States Legal Culture: An Historical Perspective from World War I Through the Vietnam Conflict."
  • KALLGREN, DANIEL "The Individual, the Family and the Community in the Rise of American School Attendance, 1850-1950."
  • KERN, EDMUND "The Styrian Witch Trials: Secular Authority and Religious Orthodoxy in the Early Modern Period."
  • MAGNUSON, DIANA "The Making of a Modern Census: The United States Census of Population, 1790-1940."
  • PATTERSON, TIFFANY "'You Got Tuh Go There Tuh Know': Social History as Knowable Through the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston, 1890-1945."
  • VANDENBERG-DAVES, JODI "'Changing Classes': Working-Class Women, Higher Education, and Upward Mobility 1950-1985."

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