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A sense of where they were neoliberals and the Democratic Party in an Era of Challenges and political transformation, 1978-1989
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This Thesis examines the development of neoliberal politics within the Democratic Party, concentrating on the period from 1978 to 1989. The thesis focuses on elite-level...
The sword of god: Plague and episcopal authority in the Late Antique West
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This thesis examines three major historical figures of Early Medieval Europe to discover the attitudes and responses to the plague: Pope Gregory the Great, Gregory of Tours, and the Venerable Bede. Gregory the Great provides ...
Reluctant emancipator : James Sidney Rollins and the politics of slavery and freedom in the border south, 1838-1882
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
of slavery in the years surrounding the Civil War. Rollins, like many Border State slaveholders, staked out a moderate public position on slavery and decried abolitionists and fire-eating proslavery demagogues as extremists who sought to destroy the Union...
Foreign occupation and the development of Filipino nationalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The history of the Philippines is one defined by its regional, ethnic and geographical division. Since its settlement by the earliest Malay immigrants, the over 7,000 islands have hosted a multitude of cultures, languages, ...
A victory long in the making : divestment from South Africa at the University of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis focuses on the little known, but significant, movement for divestment (the sale of stocks from companies doing business in South ...
More than beer : the complex career of Adolphus Busch
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
, machine, utility, and transportation companies. At every step, Busch depended on a network of friends and family to provide leadership and synergy between his companies. Thus, while he is mostly remembered as a brewer, Busch's career was always about more...
Carolingian imperial authority : consolidation to dissolution, 751-870
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
the Pious' eldest son and coemperor. Lothar has been a controversial figure in Carolingian history. His seizure of power in 833 has colored him as an ungrateful, troublesome son, and the failure of his kingdom, Middle Francia, has made him out...
Forging a national diet : beef and the political economy of plenty in postwar America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
undifferentiated by diet and unified by eating a meal fit for the leader of the free world. Drawing on primary research materials found at the National Archives in College Park, MD, and at five presidential archives, along with government publications and beef...
Red lion in winter : the life and times of Claude M. Lightfoot
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
"In August 1985, a 75-year-old man in South Chicago saw an eviction in progress at 8051 South Yates Boulevard. Movers carried the family's goods and possessions out to the street, as police watched nearby. For the old man ...
A neverending stream : human trafficking in Medieval Europe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
, disappeared across much of Western Europe by the middle of the twelfth century, the commercial sex industry grew. As slavery died out, the slave trade withered across Western Europe and gradually reoriented itself around the Mediterranean basin. Yet, human...
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 ...
Advocacy, human rights, and foreign policy : the case of Rwanda
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The United States, uniquely positioned as a world leader, has the ability and the wherewithal to encourage and promote acceptance and adherence to ...
The Longue Durée of Choctaw Removal, 1800-1860
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
's legal struggles, and their final violent expulsion from Georgia. In these renderings, the story is quick, violent, and most of all successful. At all levels, this is a story of a developing conflict between the federal government and native peoples...
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 ...
Under the big top : big tent revivalism and American culture, 1880-1925
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] What was the relationship between itinerate evangelism and the rapidly changing American society and culture at the turn of the twentieth-century? The ...
Seizing the elephant : Kansas City and the great western migration, 1840-1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
, publicly and privately, Go to the West; there your capacities are sure to be appreciated, and your energy and industry rewarded."[2] He believed in the transcontinental railroad that ran to the Pacific coast and brought the American reader along...