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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)The scholarship regarding the education of American Indians has focused primarily on the trials and atrocities of the period between 1870 and 1930. This thesis expands this analysis and explores the shifts in Indian ...
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American Fast Food as Culture and Politics: The Introduction of Pepsi and McDonald's into the USSR (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This thesis explores how and why two capitalistic American corporations were granted access to the Soviet Union's internal market. For decades communist leadership railed against what they termed "cheap bourgeois consumption," ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Like most whites living on the Pacific Coast during the late nineteenth century, white residents of Astoria, Oregon supported the notion that the Chinese, as a race, were culturally and economically depraved and certainly ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)Despite living under different social circumstances, both outcasts and commoners in medieval Japan actively fought for their own survival. Scholars have often imagined these groups to be simply the victims of exploitation, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States government, in its relations with Native Americans, implemented a policy of assimilation designed to detribalize Indian peoples and absorb them into ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This thesis explores the variety of women's experiences before the London court in the late-eighteenth century. Historians have emphasized the implications of women as defendants but have yet to examine other capacities ...
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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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(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)The Philippine-American War has rarely been analyzed from the Filipino viewpoint. As a consequence, Filipino military activity is little known or misunderstood. This study aims to shed light on the Filipino side of the ...
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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, 2014-06-17)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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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)The wave of working-class radicalism that swept across France at the turn of the twentieth century has largely been attributed by historians to the pressures of industrialization undermining traditional methods and ...
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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, 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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(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, 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)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, 2014-10-17)This study acts as a response to questions surrounding the position of women in the Heian court as encountered by earlier scholars. To that end this study examines the construction of the Heian concept of femininity with ...
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(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)After the United States entered World War II, the nation began a technical assistance program and a military aid program in Paraguay as part of its Latin American foreign policy. The U.S. rooted its technical assistance ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)This dissertation examines the spatial and built forms of Japanese power. As it sought to consolidate control of new territory, the Meiji government followed a design forged in Tokyo as it attempted to build legitimacy ...
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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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