Abstract of "To Serve the Race...and Redeem the South": Gender and the Southern Interracial Network, 1919-1949, by Caroline C. Cortina, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011.Drawing …
After the thirteenth century conquest much of Andalusia, Christians settling these territories found themselves in close proximity to Muslims, often trading together and sharing pastureland …
This dissertation examines the influence of voluntary youth clubs administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) -- known popularly as 4-H clubs -- …
Contesting the Russian Borderlands analyzes German military rule in occupied Lithuania during the First World War within the context of the German Empire's imperial history. …
This dissertation examines long-neglected Carolingian monastic literary works and argues that these works -- poetry, prose, hagiographies, letters, and inscriptions -- shaped monastic education and …
The dissertation provides a social history of collective farm privatization, focusing specifically on three former collective farms in the Nizhnii Novgorod, Riazan� and Krasnodar regions …
"Recasting the Criminal" is a comparative examination of the government use of violence against criminals and insurgent groups in two important British imperial locations in …