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Coffeehouse Sociability: Samuel Pepys and the Creation of Networks in Late Seventeenth Century England
(2021)
The aim of this work is to address how coffeehouse culture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England facilitated the creation of networks. The emergence of the coffeehouse in London created a new social atmosphere for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Politics and Pandemic in 1918 Kansas City
(University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2010)
The 1918-1919 Spanish influenza was the deadliest pandemic in history and citizens of Kansas City died in larger numbers due to politics. Kansas City government was under the control of two powerful political bosses, ...
The Victorian Preacher’s Malady: The Metaphorical Usage of Gout in the Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This dissertation examines the use of the gout metaphor in the life and writings of
one of Victorian England’s most eminent preachers and gout sufferers, the Baptist Charles
Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892). Careful scrutiny ...
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 ...
From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)
This thesis analyzes the prevalent use of acupuncture in nineteenth-century American medicine. Using medical journal articles, school catalogs, lecture notes, fee tables, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, I ...
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 ...
Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
(2013)
By the time Samuel Clemens began writing journalism and crafting what he
called the “sensation hoax” for Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise in 1862, Americans
had been devouring sensational novels and journalism by ...