Brown University Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Why have great powers sometimes been able to occupy weaker countries and at other times, using similar tactics, lost to a few poorly armed insurgents? …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: McMahon, Leo D (creator); Kinzer, Stephen (thesis advisor); Jost, Tyler (reader); Brown University. International Relations (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Insurgency; Nicaragua; Cuba; Haiti; Counterinsurgency; Decapitation; Military leadership
Collection:: International and Public Affairs; Theses and Dissertations; The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

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Description:: Neonatal mortality rates in Haiti are among the highest in the Western hemisphere. Few mothers deliver with a skilled birth attendant present, and there is …
Year:: 2018
Contributor:: Jean-Charles, Skenda (creator); Koster, Michael (thesis advisor); Rosenthal, Samantha (thesis advisor); Brown University. School of Public Health (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Neonatology; Septicemia; Neonatal intensive care; World health; Newborn infants--Mortality; Haiti
Collection:: Public Health; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This thesis examines the corpus of stories about the first empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Heureuse Dessalines, who reigned from 1804 to 1806. Existing narratives about …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Altidor, Ella (creator); Owens, Emily (thesis advisor); Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: gender; Haiti
Collection:: History; Theses and Dissertations

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