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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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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)The dissertation focuses on Protestants in the Soviet Ukraine from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the USSR. It has two major aims. The first is to elucidate the evolution of Soviet policy toward Protestant ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)From its inception, the Oregon State Highway Department and Portland's political leaders repeatedly failed to address the city's automobile traffic problems. However, in 1955 the Highway Department published a comprehensive ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Between the early 1900s and the 1952 U.S. Supreme Court case of United States v. Oregon State Medical Society, conflicts over the legality and permissibility of contract medicine raged in Oregon. Organized labor opposed ...
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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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