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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Drawing from trends in environmental and disaster studies, this study examines the meaning of earthquakes within the official histories of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907), specifically those during the reign of Emperor ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-06)High school student activism at Chemawa Indian School, a Native American boarding school in Oregon, transformed the curriculum, policies, and student life at Chemawa. Historians have neglected post-WWII boarding school ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)This thesis investigates the Indian Student Placement Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which removed tens of thousands of Native students from their families and placed them in white LDS homes ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This thesis addresses the motivations and experiences of post-Soviet women who married American men though internet agencies in the 1990s and 2000s. I explain the historical context for these migrations, unpack the mechanics ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)American emigrants frequently encountered Native North Americans during the overland trail migrations of the 1840s-1860s. This study examines the frequency and nature of those interactions in two geographic sections: the ...
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(1940-06)It is only in the past few years that the relations of the United States with Latin America have exoited a large measure of interest in the American people. This trend of opinion seems to be based upon two factors: the ...
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(University of Oregon, 1966-06)
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(University of Oregon, 1948-06)Nations depending upon citizens to fill their armies and navies for their warfare are continually faced with a question of reward. Such nations have always been anxious that they do not appear ungrateful to the select class ...
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(University of Oregon, 1980-06)In the summer of 1889, Granville Stuart, pioneer gold-miner, trader, merchant, politician, rancher, and man of letters led one of the most deadly vigilante episodes in American history. Like the leaders of the 1862 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)While multiple questions drive this project, one fundamental query lays at its center. How did American approaches to mortality, their own and others, during the early national period (roughly 1770 to 1850) shape both their ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Britain and Japan, fellow island nations, share many geographical similarities, and accordingly both societies have long taken advantage of water transport domestically. In modern times the two nations’ governments have ...
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(1946-06)This thesis is the result of an investigation begun as a hobby in 1935. Interest in the Chinese was first aroused by the Chinese Joss house, a mysterious, windowless, curved roof structure on Front Street in Boise, Idaho. ...
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(University of Oregon, 1934-08-06)
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(University of Oregon, 1942-06)It is evident from a study of the history of these Indians, that the Warm Springs, together with other Oregon tribes, did not benefit greatly from the Government system of colonizing and reservations. It is true that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)In 1934, four Argentine-born soccer players participated for the Italian team that won the FIFA World Cup on home soil. As children born to parents who participated in a wave of Italian immigrants that helped reshape ...
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(University of Oregon, 1958-06)
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(University of Oregon, 1992-02)The work is divided into four parts. The first deals with both the genesis of the ILWU and its ideology, and more specifically the Portland waterfront leading up to the watershed strike of 1934. The second part is a ...
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