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Bar girls and mail-order brides : American Imperialism in the Philippines during the Marcos Era, 1965-1986
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05)
, and it has become easier than ever to book a hedonistic trip to the Philippines, or to import your very own.woman from there. This relationship between the U.S. and the Philippines based on culture, race and gender persists today....
Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
(2023)
This dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George ...
Autonomy in the Great War: the experience of the German soldier on the Eastern Front
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
From 1914 to 1919, the German military established an occupation zone in the territory of
present day Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. Cultural historians have generally focused on the
role of German soldiers as psychological ...
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 ...
The Un'Gathering of the Tribes: performing, writing, and remaking masculine identity at 1990s alternative rock festivals
(2013)
In the early 1990s, a number of up-and-coming American rock bands working in the so-called "alternative rock" genre coupled boyish sensitivity with aggressive sounds that fused punk rock, hard rock, and underground styles ...
The Johnson Treatment: Cold War Food Aid and the Politics of Gratitude
(2014-09-30)
In 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared, "India is a good and deserving
friend. Let it never be said that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap that we turned in indifference from her bitter ...
For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
(2013)
This study traces the assimilation process of more than six hundred Saxon Lutherans
who migrated to Perry County, Missouri, in 1839. As one of the few groups in the
nineteenth century who chose to move to the United ...
The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The aim of this work is to address the development of experiential Protestantism
in the nineteenth century, commonly called Pietism, through the theological contributions
of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, ...