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Dissertations from 2001
Translations of “The Tempest” in Germany and Japan, Friederike von Schwerin-High
Dreams of the wild frontier: Imaginary geographies and the American West, Aaron Boyd Walker
Women, men, property, and inheritance : gendered testamentary customs in Western Massachusetts, 1800-1860 : or, diligent wives, dutiful daughters, prodigal sons, westward migration, reciprocity, and rewards for virtue, considered., Glendyne R. Wergland, History
Ruined bodies and ruined narratives: The fallen woman and the history of the novel, Amy L Wolf
Writing her way: A study of Ghanaian novelist Amma Darko, Louise Allen Zak
Dissertations from 2000
Tracking modernity: Writing the rails of empire, Marian Ida Aguiar
Laying down the law for the historical imagination: Kant, Schiller and Nietzsche, Matthew Louis Blanshei
Rubble trouble: History and subjectivity in the ruins of fascism, Siobhan S Craig
La nación novelada: Los inicios de la novela histórica gallega, Gabriel J Garcia-Bajo
"He had no right" : sex, law, and the courts in Vermont, 1777-1920., Harold A. Goldman, History
Con nuestro trabajo y sudor: Indigenous women and the construction of colonial society in 16th and 17th century Peru, Karen B Graubart
The world fill'd with a generation of bastards : pregnant brides and unwed mothers in seventeenth-century Massachusetts/, Else L. Hambleton, History
The rebellion of Mita, eastern Guatemala, in 1837, Ann F. Jefferson, History
Afro look: Die Geschichte einer zeitschrift von schwarzen Deutschen, Francine Jobatey
The creation of the eternal truths and the nature of God in Descartes, Daniel Patrick Kaufman
Conjured bodies, trickster voices: Transforming narrative, history, and identity in the literature of slavery, Suzanne Therese Lane
Banks, insider lending and industries of the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, 1813–1860, Paul Andre Lockard
Topics in the historical sociolinguistics of Tejano Spanish, 1791–1910: Morphosyntactic and lexical aspects, Glenn Andrew Martinez
Actions louder than words : gender and political activism in the American radical pacifist movement, 1942-1972., Marian B. Mollin, History
“Here is a cabinet of great curiosities”: Collecting the past on the American frontier, Theo Padnos
The intentional turn: Suicide in twentieth-century United States American literature by women, Kathleen O Ryan
La poética del bolero en Cuba y Puerto Rico, Alinaluz Santiago Torres
The introduction of the bachelor -master -doctor degree system in Bulgarian universities: A case study, Snejana Ivanova Slantcheva
Bubonic plague in English Renaissance utopian literature, Rebecca Carol Noel Totaro
Selling sobriety : how temperance reshaped culture in antebellum America., Graham, Warder, History
The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of black faculty in the math and science pipeline: A life history approach, Lisa D Williams
Theorizing Asian America, Lingyan Yang
Dissertations from 1999
La transicion a la democracia en la novela espanola (1976-1996): Los poderes de la memoria, Carlos X Ardavin
The "exotic" Black African in the French social imagination in the 1920s., Brett A. Berliner, History
"Detention castles of stone and steel": An historical archaeology of the first Rhode Island State Prison, 1838--1878, James Curtis Garman
Reconstructing a history of Spanish immigration in West Virginia: Implications for multicultural education, Thomas Gene Hidalgo
The Catholic ethic and the spirit of corporatism: Historical and contemporary links between Church and state in social services, health care and education, Richard Louis Metafora
Rebels of the New South : the Socialist Party in Dixie, 1892-1920., Brad A. Paul, History
Legal modernism and the politics of expertise: American law's crisis of knowledge and authority, 1870-1930, William David Rose
Young Charles Sumner and the legacy of the American enlightenment, 1811-1851., Anne-Marie, Taylor, History
The political economy of organized baseball: Analysis of a unique industry, Ross David Weiner
A resource-based view of strategic alliances and industry structures, Diana J Wong
Dissertations from 1998
"Divide the living child in two": Adoption and the rhetoric of legitimacy in twentieth-century American literature, Jill R Deans
Pothos and eyes of blank stone longing and absence in ancient Greece, John Michael Degener
Staging pornography: Code, culture and context, John Michael Ernst
Body image/s: Representations of the body in the novel of French Canada and Quebec, Susan Katherine Kevra
"...Dien und mein Gedaechtnis ein Weltall": A metahistorical avenue into Marie-Therese Kerschbaumer's literary world of women, William B Kirby
Offizier und amazone: Frauen in maennerkleidung in der Deutschen literatur um 1800, Elisabeth Krimmer
Female pioneers and social mothers: Novels by female authors in the Weimar Republic and the construction of the New Woman, Stefana Lee Lefko
Performing saints' lives: Medieval miracle plays and popular culture, Diana Lucy Murphy
An Collins (fl. 1653): Mistress of religious verse, Mary Eleanor Norcliffe
The necessity of organization' : Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, the American Federation of Labor, and the Boston Women's Trade Union League, 1892-1919., Kathleen Banks Nutter, History
Secret culture, public culture and a secular moral order : masonry and antimasonry in Massachusetts (1826-1832), the Third French Republic (1884-1911), and the Russian Empire (1906-1910)., Julianne, O'Brien, History
A "chance for better television": PBS and the politics of ideals, 1967-1973, Laurie Jean Ouellette
Louis the Pious and Judith Augusta : in defense of sacral kingship in the imperium christianum of the early ninth century., Jane Swotchak Ourand, History
Vision and practice: Resistance and dissent in Shaker communities, Ellen-Rose Savulis
Generation multiplex: The image of youth in American cinema, 1981-1996, Timothy Matthew Shary
Dissertations from 1997
Out of the abundance of the heart : Sarah Ann Parker Remond's quest for freedom/, Sibyl Ventress Brownlee, History
Indian women's lives and labor : the indentureship experience in Trinidad and Guyana, 1845-1917., Sumita, Chatterjee, History
"The magic of the many that sets the world on fire" : Boston elites and urban political insurgents during the early nineteenth century., Matthew H. Crocker, History
Dancing America : modern dance and cultural nationalism 1925-1950., Julia L. Foulkes, History
The ordeal of Edward Greeley Loring : fugitive slavery, judicial reform, and the politics of law in 1850s Massachusetts., Kevin L. Gilbert, History
Roads to take when you think of your country: American epic poems by women, Jenny Goodman
Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction, Kimberly Anne Hicks
La poetica de la ley en los textos coloniales, Raul A Marrero-Fente
Defiant Odalisques: Exoticism, Resistance and the Female Body in Nineteenth Century Fiction, Piya Pal-Lapinski
Reel to real: Gender, genre, and the Hollywood romantic comedy, Mark David Rubinfeld
Aphoristic thoughts, Dirk Michael Schepers
Populism and public life : antipartyism, the State, and the politics of the 1850s in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania., Mark, Voss-Hubbard, History
The fallen woman in the Victorian novel: Dickens, Gaskell, and Eliot, Margaret C Wiley
Between daya and doctor : a history of the impact of modern nation-state building on health east and west of the Jordan river., Elise G. Young, History
Dissertations from 1996
A history of alcohol as symbol and substance in Anishinaabe culture, 1765-1920, Kathryn A. Abbott, History
Material culture, commodities, and consumption in Palestine, 1500-1900, Uzi Baram
Entitled to relief: poor women, charity, and medicine, 1900-1920., Marilyn S. Blackwell, History
My dear Mrs. Ames : a study of the life of suffragist cartoonist and birth control reformer Blanche Ames Ames, 1878-1969., Anne Biller Clark, History
The politics of anticommunism in Massachusetts, 1930-1960., Judith Larrabee Holmes, History
The Triangle fire and the limits of progressivism., Frances B. Jensen, History
The mind/body problem: college women's attitudes toward their bodies, 1875-1930., Margaret A. Lowe, History
The Catholic lobby: the periphery dominated center, public opinion and American foreign policy 1932-1962., Thomas M. Moriarty, History
All hands are enjoined to spin : textile production in seventeenth-century Massachusetts., Susan M. Ouellette, History
The problem with planning: Springfield Hospital and the development of the U.S. healthcare system 1890-1980., Bruce, Saxon, History
Another martyr for old Ireland., Sharon Leigh Williams, History
Dissertations from 1995
The origins and early development of the notion of the just war : a study in the ideology of the later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe., David A. Lenihan, History
Private values, public policy, and poverty in America, 1890-1940., Margaret, Orelup, History
Dissertations from 1994
An undistorted picture : broadcasting, journalism and the state, 1920-1941., Thomas W. Ashwell, History
Political currents : David E. Lilienthal and the modern American state., Gregory Blaise Field, History
Skill was never enough : American Bosch, Local 206 and the decline of metalworking in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1900-1970., Robert F. Forrant, History
Mendocino: race relations in a northern California county, 1850-1949., Linda Pacini Pitelka, History
Dissertations from 1993
Decline of the Dreadnought : Britain and the Washington Naval Conference, 1921-1922., Raymond C. Gamble, History
Revolution and empire on the northern frontier : Ira Allen of Vermont, 1751-1814., J. Kevin Graffagnino, History
Gendered law : a discourse analysis of labor legislation, 1890-1930., Lori Ann Kran, History
Dissertations from 1992
U.S.-Argentine relations in the 1950s., Norma D. Gonzalez, History
Regulating capitalism : the Taylor Society and political economy in the inter-war period., Carlos E. Pabon, History
Daughters of the book : a study of gender and ethnicity in the lives of three American Jewish women., Harriet M. Sigerman, History
Social gospel, social economics, and the YMCA : Sidney D. Gamble and Princeton-in-Peking., Wenjun, Xing, History
Dissertations from 1991
The new Medici : the rise of corporate collecting and uses of contemporary art, 1925-1970., Judith A. Barter, History
Rolling in the dirt : the origins of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the politics of racism, 1870-1882., Andrew, Gyory, History
The Afro-American community and the birth control movement, 1918- 1942., Jessie M. Rodrique, History
Dissertations from 1990
Taming savage nature : the body metaphor and material culture in the sixteenth-century conquest of New Spain., Abel A. Alves, History
Spanish diplomatic policy and contribution to the United States independence, 1775-1783., Loliannette, Emmanuelli, History
Beneath consensus : business, labor, and the post-war order., Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, History
Black neighbors : race and the limits of reform in the American settlement house movement, 1890-1945., Elisabeth Dan Lasch, History
Marion Harland: the making of a household word., Karen Manners Smith, History
Beyond the veil : the culture of the Knights of Labor., Robert E. Weir, History