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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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(University of Oregon, 1951-06)John Hay did not invent the Open Door policy. It is as old as American relations with Asia. The tap-root of American policy has been not philanthropy but the demand for protection of our nationals in the Far East and the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Specifically focusing on the Museum at Warm Springs, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and the High Desert Museum this thesis explores how Native and non-Native museums exist at the intersection of historical narrative ...
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Islands of Castile: Artistic, Literary, and Legal Perception of the Sea in Castile-Leon, 1248-1450 (University of Oregon, 2011-09)Before Spain encountered the Americas, it first encountered the sea. This dissertation explores the roots of that encounter by examining perceptions of the sea in late medieval Castile-Leon reflected in art, literature, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)This thesis examines the intersection of republicanism and imperialism in the early nineteenth-century Americas. I focus primarily on Joel Roberts Poinsett, a United States ambassador and statesman, whose career provides ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)Most histories of the New Left emphasize that some variant of Marxism ultimately influenced activists in their pursuit of social change. Through careful examination of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), I argue that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-10-31)This dissertation explores the history of Japanese home cooking during the formative postwar period—focusing on the women who were responsible for its development. My research demonstrates that as the primary consumers who ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)Taking Utagawa Yoshikazu's woodblock printed game board Monster Yarns as my case study, I will analyze how existing imagery and game play work together to create an interesting and engaging game. I will analyze the visual ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)In 1870, physicians in United States were not licensed by the state or federal governments, but by 1900 almost every state and territory passed some form of medical licensing. Regular physicians originally promoted licensing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)During the nineteenth century, companionate marriage became a dominant marital model for the French bourgeoisie, but that ideal was poorly defined and became a point of contestation between spouses. This study focuses on ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)This thesis explores the relationship between 1970s lesbian-feminist theory and praxis through analysis of the cultural production and lived experiences of Jean and Ruth Mountaingrove, two members of a loose-knit community ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-09)This thesis offers an analysis of the competing interests of the state and the individual in Belle Epoque France as manifested in a crisis of marriage. I argue that traditional institutions that favored social stability ...
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