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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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(University of Oregon, 2012)Over the course of forty years, from 1905-1945, Japan's Ministry of Education successfully formed, propagated, and invented the martial mother tradition. The stories compiled in the Ministry of Education's textbooks taught ...
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Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury: Incarnational Anglicanism and British Society, 1928-1974 (University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation analyzes the theology and politics of Michael Ramsey between his ordination in 1928 and his retirement in 1974. Ramsey entered the priesthood after a burgeoning career in law and Liberal politics. I ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)Scholars of Mexican migration, both in the U.S. and in Mexico, have defined the Mexican migration by the transnational migration experience. While certainly an important aspect of Mexican migration, this narrow focus has ...
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(University of Oregon, 1997-06)This dissertation is a narrative account of the life of Minoru Yasui, 1916-1986. Minoru Yasui was a Nisei (second generation Japanese American), born in Hood River, Oregon, and a graduate of the University of Oregon (B.A., ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)In recent decades, scholars have praised Portland as a model for urban planning and citizen participation. This thesis complicates Portland's rose-colored image by situating it within recent histories on the long civil ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)This thesis argues that women were instrumental in creating the period of transformation that took place in American obstetrics and gynecology during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Historians have ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-10)This thesis examines US-Guatemalan relations during the first half of the 1960s. At a critical juncture in Guatemalan history, a relatively inexperienced US ambassador, John Bell, subverted democratic systems in Guatemala ...
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(1955-06)The writer has attempted to present in this work a history of the Socialist party of America from the presidential campaign of 1932 to that of 1936. In 1932 the prospects of the party appeared to be much brighter than they ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)This dissertation is a historical study of the city of Baku, Azerbaijan, and its oil industry from the 1870s to the present, covering the tsarist Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras. The history of the Baku oil industry ...
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(1963-06)The history of the Oregon Commonwealth Federation is the story of the rise and decline of a reform organization. This thesis is an attempt to discover why the OCF was formed, how it developed, and why it suddenly declined. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)This thesis interrogates the practice, economy, and sociopolitics of slavery and captivity among Indigenous peoples and Euro-American colonizers on the Northwest Coast of North America from 1774-1846. Through the use of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)Kara Walker is one of the most successful and widely known contemporary African-American artists today--remarkable for her radical engagement with issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Walker is best known for her ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)Historians have long been fascinated by the last decade of the nineteenth century. It was in these years that one of the great industrial reform movements arose, spearheaded in much of the West and South by the Populists. ...
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(University of Oregon, 1961-06)After the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington is reported to have said: “The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.” Only a true Englishman, and spirit of if not in nationality, ...
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(1927)The Presbyterian Church has been associated with Oregon's History from a very early date. That is sufficient excuse for this essay. In the persons of Dr. Marcus Whitman, Rev. H. H. Spalding and their wives and W. H. Gray, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-03)The French "utopian socialist" movement known as Saint-Simonianism has long been recognized for its influence among 19th century engineers. An examination of the early Saint-Simonian journal, Le Producteur , however, reveals ...
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