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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 ...
More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
(2013)
how progressives looked to nature as a tool of social reform. Each of these men understood the American environment in multiple contexts. Nostalgia and romanticized Missouri River history activated themes of empire, race, and manhood in Neihardt’s work...
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 ...
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 ...
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)
and expressed their identities through the self-narratives created in their letters. They particularly showed how they defined themselves in their narratives of leisure and travel. They frequently incorporated their travel experiences into their narratives...
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 ...
Cleared to land in the desert: commercial air travel's role in the growth and development of Las Vegas as a world-class travel destination
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-04)
This study provides a history of commercial aviation in Las Vegas, focusing on the
powerful influence commercial air travel had with the financial help of the federal
government on Las Vegas‟s growth and development as ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
"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 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, ...