The usefulness of public opinion studies in historical analysis has been amply demonstrated by many recent and contemporary historians. My purpose in this thesis is not to defend the concept but to contribute in a small ...

The scholarship regarding the education of American Indians has focused primarily on the trials and atrocities of the period between 1870 and 1930. This thesis expands this analysis and explores the shifts in Indian ...

This thesis examines the concept of “speaking bodies” in the early modern European world, primarily in the seventeenth century. Demoniacs and corpses that bled due to cruentation are examined comparatively through the lens ...

The aims of this thesis are twofold; first, to examine the policy of Great Britain in the Baltic provinces in those troubled times immediately following World War I; and, second, to show how British policy in this area ...

The wave of working-class radicalism that swept across France at the turn of the twentieth century has largely been attributed by historians to the pressures of industrialization undermining traditional methods and ...

This thesis analyzes various literary, numismatic, and epigraphical narratives of the Roman civil war of 69CE, and the representations of the four emperors who fought in it. In particular the focus is on how the narratives ...

The Jesuit mission to Japan (1549-1639) has long attracted the attention of historians because it coincided with a number of developments in Japanese history: increasing contact with Western powers, political reunification, ...

Like most whites living on the Pacific Coast during the late nineteenth century, white residents of Astoria, Oregon supported the notion that the Chinese, as a race, were culturally and economically depraved and certainly ...

Fannie Farmer of the Boston Cooking School may be the only culinary expert from the Progressive Era who remains a household name today, but many other women took part in efforts to reform American foodways as well. Employing ...

The colonial history of Oregon requires, in my opinion, significant revision. Therefore, I addressed numerous important topics that regional historians, in my estimation, have handled incompletely. Such topics include the ...