Browsing History electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Collins, Robert M."

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  • Agriculture during the Reagan years 

    Ward, Jay Woodward (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
    The Farm Crisis of the 1980s occurred during the Reagan Presidency. To date virtually nothing has been written concerning the approach taken by the Reagan administration to combat the crisis. To fill that gap, this study ...

  • Federal policy on agriculture under the Reagan administration : the first year 

    Ward, Jay W. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    The Reagan administration focused most of its time and energy on the problems that confronted the nation in 1981. This paper assesses how the administration approached that part of the economy that pertained to agriculture. ...

  • Mississippi Mau Mau : Medgar Evers and the black freedom struggle, 1952-1963 

    Henze, Kristin R. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    Mississippi Mau Mau expands upon existing historical analysis of the ideological connections between African liberation struggles and the Black Freedom Movement in the United States by concentrating on the ways in which ...

  • Securing peace: Henry M. Jackson and U.S.-Soviet relations 

    Atkinson, Henry (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 ...

  • St. Louis's German brewing industry : its rise and fall 

    Miller, Eoghan P. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
    The rapid rise of St. Louis from eighteenth-century frontier outpost to turn of the century metropolis was due in no small part to its German community. During the middle of the nineteenth century tens of thousands of ...