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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)This dissertation is both a new historical synthesis of pioneer violence within and beyond the wars on Native people in the mid-nineteenth-century American Pacific Northwest, and a new history of how these wars—and broader ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This dissertation examines the role that photography played in re-imaging Japanese cultural identity during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952). It argues that photographers viewed the camera as a tool with which ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This thesis examines the connection between colonialism and violence during the early years of English settlement in North America. I argue that colonization was inherently destructive because the English colonists ...
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(University of Oregon, 2005-08)My dissertation, "The Red Turban Rebellions and the Emergence of Ethnic Consciousness of the Hakkas in Nineteenth-Century China," focuses on one of most important and controversial minorities in China-and a group that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This thesis investigates how the rank-and-file members of the Teamsters Union reacted to the economic crisis of the 1970s. I argue that they countered a variety of social and economic problems of the era with the tools of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)This thesis explores the intersection of indigeneity and modernity in early-twentieth-century North America by examining Native Americans in competitive running arenas in both domestic and international settings. Historians ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)Scholars have reexamined U.S. Indian policy in order to detail American genocidal efforts in the lands that became the United States. Others have studied the lives and influences of Tribes and Indigenous individuals who ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)This dissertation contends that women - as intellectuals, educators, physicians, activists, consumers, and patients - shaped the dramatic transformation that took place in the medical specialties of gynecology and obstetrics ...
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Sanitizing History: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in U.S. West Mining Communities (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Residents in mining towns of the U.S. West face a troubling quandary in their attempts to preserve historical evidence of their town’s industrial past, because that evidence threatens their health. The 1980 Comprehensive ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)Everyone is talking about, reporting on, and studying the ocean, focusing on issues from sea level rise and pollution to coral reefs and algae blooms. Yet the piece we are missing in our study of the sea is understanding ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This thesis examines the nineteenth-century rise of physician-patient privilege in the United States. Owing to the Duchess of Kingston’s 1776 trial for bigamy, the privilege is not recognized in many common law jurisdictions, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506) was a preeminent Japanese monk painter who journeyed to China in the mid-fifteenth century. This thesis focuses on a diptych of landscape paintings by Sesshu Toyo, Autumn and Winter Landscapes (Shutou ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)The gokan is a medium of pre-modern Japanese literature where the story is told through a mixture of text and image on every page, with the narrative and dialogue of the story surrounding the image illustrations on all ...
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(University of Oregon, 1974-08)The needlewomen of New York in the period 1825-1870 comprised the most numerous and the most degraded class of urban working women; yet they were also the most militant. Their societies -- the first organized efforts of ...
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(University of Oregon, 1948-06)The period from 1837 to 1854 has been styled by Jean Rogers Commons as the most loquacious in the history of the 19th century. Certainly the variety of reforms and reformers, emerging during those years, tended to substantiate ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)As Mexican Americans from southern Texas, who called themselves Tejanos, and Mexican immigrants migrated to Independence, Oregon, in the mid-to-late 20th century, memory became a way to familiarize a foreign place. In the ...
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