Browsing 2011 Theses (UMKC) by Thesis Department "History (UMKC)"

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  • Creating an imperial city: Kansas City in the 1920s 

    Gallagher, Kory Paul (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 ...

  • Perceptions of gender in English news pamphlets 1660-1700 

    Fogarty, Kimberly Ann, 1980- (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-18)
    Sensational murders were a popular topic for news pamphlets in England from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. Early pamphlets are characterized by religious and dramatic imagery, but beginning in the late seventeenth ...

  • Public perceptions of sailors' wives in eighteenth-century England 

    Riebe, Melissa Ann (University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-20)
    Eighteenth-century England was a time of heightened activity for the Royal Navy. Men both joined or were pressed into the navy by growing numbers to defeat the island nation from its enemies, leaving behind their loved ...