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The family farm in the post-World War II era : industrialization, the cold war and political symbol
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation examines the particular path of technological change after World War II, how farm people adjusted to that change in their work and identity, as well as the policy implications of the numerous ramifications ...
Forging a national diet : beef and the political economy of plenty in postwar America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Few foods items are more associated with the United States than beef yet it was not until the 1950s that Americans ate more beef than any other meat. The triumph of mass beef consumption was not accidental or a preordained ...
Exchange and settlement patterns as evidence for social stratification and developing complexity in prehistoric and early Christian Ireland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
between 2500 BCE and the sixth century CE. Changes in trade and foreign contacts were used to infer the relative growth of power held internally by the ruling classes of Ireland who controlled such international relations. This evidence was correlated...
Missouri's hidden Civil War : financial conspiracy and the decline of the planter elite, 1861-1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This dissertation explores a previously unknown Civil War financial conspiracy that backfired and caused a great deal of collateral damage among Missouri's pro-southern population. In 1861, a small group of pro-secession politicians, bankers...
Seizing the elephant : Kansas City and the great western migration, 1840-1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
for the ride as he published a series of essays on his journey. Traveling by rail, steamboat, and wagon, his dispatches were laced with excitement and knowledge of a man who had only read about the American West in the hundreds of books, travel guides...
St. Louis's German brewing industry : its rise and fall
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
, helping St. Louis become a major commercial center by the outbreak of the Civil War. The success of the city and by extension its German community reached a new height in 1870 when the federal census proclaimed St. Louis the nation's "Fourth City...
The nonprofit incorporation of America, 1860-1932
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This project is an examination of the formation of corporatized charitable organizations from 1860-1932. Focusing on six organizations--the United States Sanitary Commission, the Freedmen's Bureau, the Peabody Foundation, ...
Rivers running through : an urban environmental history of the Kansas Cities and the Missouri River
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] An environmental history of Kansas City and an urban history of the Missouri River, this dissertation shows how interconnected the city and the river were through the twentieth...
Foreign occupation and the development of Filipino nationalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Filipinos against a common enemy. Over the decades, these alliances of necessity became permanent parts of cultural identity, culminating in the popular anti-Japanese resistance armies of World War II, who organized extensive guerrilla armies independent...
Women of the Heartland : tradition and evolution in the Missouri women's movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This thesis is a local study of the women's movement in Missouri. The primary topic is organized feminist activity, though it shows also feminist/antifeminist interactions. Missouri early established an official Commission on the Status of Women...
More than beer : the complex career of Adolphus Busch
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Adolphus Busch was cofounder of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association. During Busch's lifetime, Anheuser-Busch became the largest brewing company in the United States...
Almanacs and American popular theology, 1730-1820
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation centers on the relationship between religion and popular culture in early America. It argues that the religious content of almanacs, early America's most...
Power from the people : tenant activism in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, 1950-1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Built in the mid-1950s in St. Louis, Missouri, the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex was constructed as the future of high-rise public housing design but was quickly labeled as a problem for local housing officials. Counter...
Pierre Wibaux, Bad Lands rancher
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1955)
"The passage of time has, in a large sense, served to make the name of Pierre Wibaux legendary. He has been called the largest individual cattle owner in the United States, which is not true. He has been pointed out as the ...
Animals in ancient Greek warfare : a study of the elephant, camel, and dog
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
My dissertation asserts that the study of animals is integral to the thorough understanding of the ancient military landscape, and three animals in particular warrant particular attention: the elephant, camel, and dog. I ...
Rebuilding the soul : churches and religion in Bavaria, 1945-1960
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
After twelve years of Nazi rule and with Germany in total ruin, the Catholic and Protestant churches sought to re-Christianize German society. Bringing Germans back to Christ was seen as the only way to make good on the ...