Browsing by Thesis Department "History (MU)"
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Between God and Mammon : politics, class conflict, and the southern Irish state, 1922-45
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Although it is well understood that working-class politics and the political Left have been marginal forces in Irish political life, the question "Why?" has been underexamined, often attributed ... -
Between the old and the new : Friedrich Gentz, 1764-1832
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This dissertation reviews the life and political impact of Friedrich Gentz, who was born in Breslau, Prussia, in 1764, and died in Vienna, Austria, in 1832. Though remembered today as only a second- (or even third)- tier ... -
Beyond the border war : student civil rights activism at the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri, 1946-1954
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation examines post-World War II student civil rights activism at two Midwestern college campuses, the University of Missouri ... -
The birth and death of a tar baby : Henry Kissinger and southern Africa
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This thesis is an examination of Henry Kissinger and his foreign policy toward southern Africa, using the civil war in Angola in 1975 as a case study. It interrogates the influence of race, ideology, and culture on the ... -
A call to citizenship : Anti-Klan activism in Missouri, 1921-1928
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)This dissertation examines the efforts of anti-Klan activists in Missouri to challenge the growth, recruitment, and political ambitions of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s. As a nation-wide organization, the Klan made ... -
Carolingian imperial authority : consolidation to dissolution, 751-870
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This thesis examines the development and breakdown of Carolingian imperial authority from the reign of Pepin the Short (751-768) to the death of Lothar I in 855. This work incorporates a variety of source materials, including ... -
Celtic contribution to European culture during the early middle ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)In dealing with the cultural conditions in Ireland during the early Middle Ages this discussion will concern itself with four main phases. In the first place an attempt will be made to show that the conditions under which ... -
Centered on the periphery : the changing dynamic between Ionia and imperial powers 454-c.294 BCE
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Consisting of twelve cities on the coast of Asia Minor and proximate islands, Ionia is commonly thought to have flourished in the Archaic period, only to go into decline after the Persian conquest in 540 BCE before suffering ... -
Child death, grief, and the community in high and late Medieval England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)"William of Canterbury, one of the authors of the Thomas Becket miracle collection, reports in a twelfth-century miracle that an eight-year-old boy named Phillip was looking at rocks by a lake located in the county of ... -
Citizens under the law : African Americans confront the justice system in Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas, 1790-1877
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)During the nineteenth century, southern African Americans utilized various methods to secure what they believed to be their rights as citizens of the United States. One of their most effective means was the use of the ... -
Commerce clause new federalism in the Rehnquist and Roberts courts : dynamics of culture wars constitutionalism, 1964-2012
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Commerce Clause New Federalism in the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts describes how interpretation of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution has evolved since the Constitution was first ratified by the several states. It ... -
Concealed authorship on the eve of the revolution : pseudonymity and the American periodical public sphere, 1766-1776
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Concealed authorship played a vital role in the critical ten years prior to American independence. Authors utilized printers as cover to publish political essays seditious and disruptive to British authority. Pseudonymity, ... -
Corrected above measure : indentured servants and domestic abuse in Maryland, 1650-1700
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)This study utilizes seventeenth-century Maryland court records to address the questions of what options were available to indentured servants who were physically abused and how they made use of them, how local and provincial ... -
Damn with faint praise : a historical commentary on Plutarch's On the fortune or virtue of Alexander the Great 1
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Plutarch's On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great is as much a revelation of Plutarch's philosophical thought as it is a display of his rhetorical skill. Writing during the Second Sophistic movement, Plutarch ... -
"The demise of in loco parentis in American higher education" : campus rules and student behavior at the University of Missouri, 1866 to 1975
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)This study explores the history of in loco parentis as a legal regime in American higher education, and the demise of that legal regime in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines student behaviors and administrative discipline ... -
Destructive state interest and panhellenism in Thucydides
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Thucydides in his text about the war between Athens and Sparta derides individuals, either members of a community or states in an international system, acting to increase their own power at the expense of others and promotes ... -
The development of railroads in Missouri to 1860
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)Railroad construction in Missouri was undertaken by private companies who expected to finance the roads by subscriptions to the capital stock by individuals, towns and counties. Early in 1851 the people realized that the ... -
The development of religious education in the Baptist Sunday schools of the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)The purpose of this study is to find out how the Sunday school in the Baptist churches in the United States has developed in religious education. The main features with regard to which the study is made are 1) the purpose ... -
Development of the General assembly of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1908)The legislature of Missouri, like the legislatures of the other states in the Union, differs from the Congress of the United States in that it does not exercise specific delegated powers, but has a general residuary ... -
The education of noble girls in medieval France : Vincent of Beauvais and De eruditione filiorum nobilium
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The educational treatise by Vincent of Beauvais (1184/1194-1264), De eruditione filiorum nobilium (On the Education of Noble Girls), was the first medieval educational text to both systematically present a comprehensive ...