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The Johnson Treatment: Cold War Food Aid and the Politics of Gratitude
(2014-09-30)
ordered a review of American economic and agricultural assistance to India and pushed ahead with the implementation of the "short tether" policy -- placing authorization of U.S. food aid shipments to India on a month-to-month basis, and making future...
Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
(2016)
This project deals with the free speech fight of 1911 that occurred in Kansas City
and was organized and led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The free speech fight
serves as a case study in localized Midwestern ...
More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
(2013)
The decades around the turn of the twentieth century were a time of vast social and economic change. Industrialization altered the ways people related to each other and to their social, political, and cultural institutions. ...
Chapel Hill, Missouri: Lost Visions of America's Vanguard on the Western Frontier 1820 to 1865
(2014-09-30)
Despite its present circumstance as an extinct Missouri town in the geographic
heart of the Midwest, Chapel Hill College was once the vanguard of the burgeoning
American empire. In 1852, Chapel Hill College stood as a ...
Development Theory and the Cold War: A Historical Analysis of Latin American Structuralism from 1930 to 1970
(2013)
Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies over the
last two centuries. First, and currently, an “outward-oriented” program based on
exports of primary commodities. Alternatively, for a few ...
The Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
By 1880, the Kansas City community had experienced phenomenal growth. Since
1820, the new city had evolved from a fur trading post, an outfitting center for western trails,
a trading center for Native Americans, a ...
Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as
“the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier.
This research examines the pivotal role that ...
Creating an imperial city: Kansas City in the 1920s
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This thesis is a community study of Kansas City in the
1920s as a city working to assume a prominent place within the
emerging American market empire. It begins by exploring the
role that men and women played in altering ...
Yemen Mobility: Utilizing a Longue Durée and Oral History Approach to Understand Yemeni-American Migration
(2015)
Social historians tend to study Yemen migration through the lens of western capitalism. In so doing, they focus on modern events that shaped the movement of Yemenis out of south Arabia and dismiss the elements of mobility ...
The Women of reform: Kansas eugenics
(2014-07-28)
The question this research sought to answer was what made Kansas eugenics unique and in what ways was it representative of eugenics throughout the nation. The main problem in studying the history of the eugenics movement ...
Manifest Manhood on the Santa Fe Trail: Trapping and Trading in the American Southwest, 1821-1847
(2015)
This study begins in 1821 when the first Anglo parties made their way from the newly created state of Missouri to Santa Fe along the Santa Fe Trail, and it ends in 1847 with the Taos Revolt -- the most significant and ...
Rendering assistance to best advantage: the development of women's activism in Kansas City, 1870 to World War I
(2013)
This study examines the rise of women's activism in Kansas City between the
opening of the Hannibal railroad bridge in 1869 and World War I. Women's efforts over
the course of nearly 50 years to emerge from the domestic ...
Imagining and performing The Self in NAZI Germany: Leisure and travel in the correspondence of Hilde Laube and Roland Nordhoff, 1938-39
(2014-07-17)
Hilde Laube and Roland Nordhoff exchanged nearly 180 letters between May 1938
and December 1939 relating their everyday lives, discussing world events, organizing
outings, and their growing relationship. This unique set ...
World to Word: Nomenclature Systems of Color and Species
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
As the digitization of information accelerates, the push to encode our surrounding
numerically instead of linguistically increases. The role that language has traditionally
played in the nomenclature of an integrative ...
Sandoz Writing (Righting) History
(2015-06-19)
Mari Sandoz’s dedication to her research topics, personality, candor, and work ethic allowed her an intimate place alongside those she chose to write about. This yielded a moving written product. In the same way that Sandoz ...
"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(2015-06-19)
Throughout the nineteenth century, Creole women were consistently idealized,
exoticized, and demonized in literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. While
the term Creole is still hotly contested even today, ...
The spectacle haunting Europe: colonialism, commercialism, and everyday images of Africa in imperial Germany
(2014-07-30)
This study examined the simultaneous creation of a visual, consumer, and
colonial culture in a rapidly industrializing and newly formed German nation-state
from 1884-1914. By juxtaposing state policies and German colonial ...
Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-17)
At the turn of the twentieth century, young women began to see themselves and to been seen as a distinct social group for the first time in the history of the United States. This recognition was fostered by historical ...
Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology along the Southern Dead Sea Transform in Wadi 'Arabah Near the municipality of Aqaba, Jordan
(2013)
The southern Wadi ‘Arabah Valley in Jordan provides an ideal location to
investigate both the paleoseismology and archaeoseismology of the region because it is
situated directly along the active Dead Sea transform, and ...
Wreckage, Hell, and Madness: American Drug Films and the Image of the User, 1923-1936
(2015)
This paper is an exploration of the discursive, cultural transformations images of drug use and drug users have taken though some of America’s early film history. By exploring and unpacking the imagery and other expressive ...