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Securing peace: Henry M. Jackson and U.S.-Soviet relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This work focuses on the efforts of Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson to stop U.S-Soviet détente. Arms control, human rights, and national security policy are discussed in this work Détente, or relaxation of tensions between ...
Valley of industry : developing a regional economy in the post Jefferson's Embargo Ohio Valley
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Throughout the colonial era and the earliest years of the nineteenth century, the Ohio Valley was a vital member of the Atlantic World. It participated in transatlantic trade as both a provider of natural resources such ...
An unintended order : the centrality of character and circumstance in the twelfth-century Gilbertine communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This thesis examines questions related to the emergence of the Gilbertine Order in twelfth-century England. While scholars have noted the importance of circumstantial necessity in the order's early history, I believe that ...
"The sphinx of the nineteenth century": Helena Blavatsky's syncretism in Britain, 1887-1891
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Helena Blavatsky, the enigmatic co-founder of the Theosophical Society, has an extensive biographical record, much of which is dedicated to proving or ...
Abiding in the fields : pastoral care and society in late antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The adoption of Christianity among the Anglo-Saxon peoples of England in the seventh century began with evangelization by Irish and Roman missionaries and continued through the instruction and correction provided by English ...
"With the intention of destroying her life" : women, suicide, and the limits of respectability in St. Louis Missouri, 1875 to 1900
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This case study examines sixty coroner's inquests conducted between 1875 and 1900, specifically, those in which St. Louis City Coroners rendered a ...
"The demise of in loco parentis in American higher education" : campus rules and student behavior at the University of Missouri, 1866 to 1975
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explores the history of in loco parentis as a legal regime in American higher education, and the demise of that legal regime in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines student behaviors and administrative discipline ...
Just rage : causes of the rise in violence in the eastern campaigns of Alexander the Great
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Family matters : casework, manhood, and the Bureau for Homeless Men, St. Louis, 1925-1940
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This thesis examines the transformation of the system for relief for homeless men in St. Louis between 1925 and 1940 by a private welfare organization, the Bureau for Homeless Men. The transformations wrought by the Bureau ...
Toward the Celtic Tiger : integration and policymaking in Ireland's recent economic development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Per dilectam coniugem et regnorum consortem : empresses' roles in building the Salian dynasty, 1024 1125
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Salian dynasty amassed a great amount of power, expanded its territories, and established new concepts of kingship and rulership throughout its ...
A world the printers made : print culture in New York, 1783-1830
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation examines the New York publishing industry from the end of the American Revolution to the Age of Jackson. The dissertation analyzes the ...
Americanizing Africanization : the Congo crisis, 1960-1967
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This dissertation provides a concise account of U.S. intervention in the Congo between 1960 and 1967, explaining the decisions made by U.S. policymakers and their Congolese counterparts. It argues that the intervention ...
Sex radicals in America's heartland : redefining gender and sexuality, 1880-1910
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study examines the rise of sex radicalism in Kansas and the larger Midwest as men and women sought to redefine the ways in which they thought about gender and sexuality. Specifically, it follows the career of Moses ...
Order in the marketplace : commercial organizations in antebellum St Louis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This dissertation is a study of how merchants in St. Louis worked to bring order to their commercial lives in the years between the Panic of 1819, the nation's first major economic depression, and the Panic of 1857, another ...
The federalist frontier : early American political development in the old northwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This dissertation examines the role of the early American state, especially institutions created during the 1780s and 1790s, in the settlement of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Focusing on the United States ...
The nation of Islam's struggle for civil rights and liberties, 1930-1971
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Beginning in the fall of 1939, Charles Hamilton Houston, professor of law at the Howard University School of Law and the legal pioneer generally credited ...
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 ...
"The art of printing shall endure": journalism, community, and identity in New York City, 1800-1810
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis reconstructs the community of printers, booksellers, and bookbinders that existed in New York City in the first decade of the nineteenth-century. A close analysis of city directories published between 1800 and ...
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 ...