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"A country gallop on his cut"

Description:
Illustration. John Hay on a galloping horse in country scene.
Contributor:
Strothmann, F. (Frederick), 1872- (Creator)
Subject:
Hay, John, 1838-1905
Caricatures and cartoons--Political aspects
Horses
Language:
English
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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"A Declaration of Interdependence" 1962

Year:
1962
Contributor:
Dungan, Ralph A. (Ralph Anthony), 1923-2013 (Addressee)
Subject:
Diplomatic Relations
Economic Assistance
Brazil--Bahia (State)
Foreign aid funds
Free enterprise
California--Los Angeles
Sister cities
Foreign aid to Brazil
Amconsul Salvador
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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"A Land Cleansed of Heretics”: Cult Practice and Contestation in the Christianization of Late Antique Constantinople

Description:
In November 324 CE the Roman emperor Constantine founded a new city soon to become the center of a Christian empire. At its inception, however, …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Falcasantos, Rebecca Stephens (creator)
Harvey, Susan (Director)
Kraemer, Ross (Reader)
Papaioannou, Stratis (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Late antique Christianity
Religious Competition
Constantinople
Religious Violence
Ritual
Violence--Religious aspects
Language:
English
Collection:
Religious Studies
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"A Mirror to Turke": "Turks" and the Making of Early Modern England

Description:
This study examines how relations with – and discourses of – the “Turk” within England shaped the contours of critical political and religious debates from …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
Perille, Laura Ann (creator)
Harris, Tim (Director)
Nummedal, Tara (Reader)
Brummett, Palmira (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Ottoman Turks
discourse
Elizabeth I
Charles I
Cromwell
Exclusion Crisis
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Propaganda
Public opinion
Muslim converts
Pirates
Exclusion Crisis (Great Britain : 1678-1683)
Elizabeth I, Queen of England > 1533-1603
Charles I, King of England > 1600-1649
Cromwell, Oliver
England
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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"A skirt between us and our thoughts": reflections on Enrico Martines's contribution

Description:
This article argues that The Duke of Parma should be read not merely as a repository of virulent misogyny but as part of Fernando Pessoa’s …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Sabine, Mark (Author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Pessoa, Fernando > 1888-1935
The Duke of Parma
Misogyny
Sexuality
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Misoginia
Sexualidade
Modernismo
Language:
English
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Journals@BDR
Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies
Full Record

"An Interesting Planet": The Ecotheology of Marilynne Robinson's Fiction

Description:
This thesis follows the development of Marilynne Robinson's ecotheology across her four novels. Robinson's theologically-grounded engagement with the environment is not simply marginal or incidental …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Kim, Naomi (creator)
Kuzner, James (thesis advisor)
Nabers, Deak (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Christianity
American literature
Christianity and culture
Religion and literature
Ecotheology
Environmental humanities
Marilynne Robinson
Theology
Language:
English
Collection:
English
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"At 6am he shoots a bear"

Description:
Illustration of John Hay pointing a rifle at a bear among birch trees.
Contributor:
Strothmann, F. (Frederick), 1872- (Creator)
Subject:
Hay, John, 1838-1905
Bears--North America--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons--Political aspects
Language:
English
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
Full Record

"Atoms in Action" (Nuclear Science Demonstration Center), Sao Paulo, Brasil, Fall, 1969

Year:
1968
Contributor:
Department of State (Addressee)
Belton (Author)
Amembassy Brasilia (Addressee)
Amembassy Sao Paulo (Addressee)
Wilcox, R. H. (Associated name)
Amembassy Bueno Aires (Addressee)
Fisher (Drafter)
Subject:
Diplomatic Relations
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Ministry of Foreign Relations
English Translation
Customs privileges
Nuclear Demonstration Center
Amembassy Rio de Janeiro
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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"By the Power of Signs and Wonders": Paul, Divinatory Practices, and Symbolic Capital

Description:
This dissertation is largely a project of redescription and taxonomy. In it, I redescribe, reclassify, and recontextualize the divinatory practices of the apostle Paul. Throughout …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Eyl, Jennifer T (creator)
Stowers, Stanley (Director)
Kraemer, Ross (Reader)
Harvey, Susan (Reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
divinatory practices
paul
apostle paul
ancient christianity
mediterranean religions
wonder workers
roman religions
practice theory
taxonomy
Divination
Miracle workers
Romans--Religion
Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Language:
English
Collection:
Religious Studies
Theses and Dissertations
Available to Brown-affiliated users only
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"Canned History": American Newsreels and the Commodification of Reality, 1927-1945

Description:
By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Clark, Joseph E.J. (creator)
Smulyan, Susan (Director)
Rosen, Philip (Director)
Joyrich, Lynne (Reader)
Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
newsreel
documentary
film history
moviegoing
media history
cultural history
Lindbergh
Sino-Japanese War
Motion picture journalism
Documentary films
Mass media and history
Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
United States
Language:
English
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"Cheap plywood and glue": American Theatrical Enclosure at the End of the Frontier

Description:
  • Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2021
  • Concentration: English
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Sabel, Francesca (Author)
Gould, Philip (thesis advisor)
Rambuss, Richard (reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
American drama
Language:
English
Collection:
English
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"Come Hear our Merry Song": Shifts in the Sound of Swedish Radical Nationalism

Description:
Organized opposition to immigration, globalization, and minority groups in Sweden exploded during the 1980s and 1990s, energized in large part by the spread of skinhead …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Teitelbaum, Benjamin R (creator)
Perlman, Marc (Director)
Titon, Jeff (Reader)
Miller, Kiri (Reader)
Tucker, Joshua (Reader)
Bohlman, Philip (Reader)
Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
extremism
immigration
Nationalism
Music
Radicalism
Emigration and immigration
Racism
Sweden
Scandinavia
Language:
English
Collection:
Music
Ethnomusicology
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"Corpo de Voluntários da Paz"

Year:
1971
Contributor:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Addressee)
Subject:
Industrial Relations
Brazil
Embassy of the United States
Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
U.S-Brazil Relations
"Corpo de Voluntários da Paz"
Embassy of the United States of America
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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"Delenda est Carthago [et Iraq]:” A Comparison of the Third Punic War and the 2003 U.S. Invasion of Iraq and Their Manufacturing of the Case For War

Description:
War-mongering politicians. Dispatched weapons inspectors. Faulty intelligence dossiers exaggerating threats. Domestic deliberations surrounding the necessity for war. Previous and complicated histories of combat. If one …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Del Terzo, David (creator)
Pucci, Joseph (thesis advisor)
Reed, Joseph (reader)
Brown University. Classics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Punic wars
Ancient Rome
Carthage
Masinissa, King of Numidia, approximately 240 B.C.-148 B.C.
Cato the Elder
Treaty of 201
Polybius
Livy
Appian
Plutarch
War on Terrorism (2001-2009)
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Weapons of mass destruction
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-2021
Cheney, Richard B.
Paul Wolfowitz
Powell, Colin L.
Rice, Condoleezza, 1954-
Manufacturing war
Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006
Language:
English
Collection:
Classics
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"Democratic Openings"

Year:
1970
Genre:
reports
Subject:
Armed Forces
Public Administration
Abertura
Brazil Military
Return to Civilian Rule
Medici Administration
United States. Department of Defense
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
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"Drama Sustains the Spirit": Art, Ritual, and Theater in Jin and Yuan Period Pingyang, 1150-1350

Description:
Pingyang (modern Linfen, Shanxi) was a major art and theater center in North China during the Jin and Yuan periods. Soon after the Jurchen conquered …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Zhang, Fan (creator)
Bickford, Maggie (Director)
Bickford, Maggie (Reader)
Zerner, Catherine (Reader)
Hansen, Valerie (Reader)
Brown University. History of Art and Architecture (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Zhugongdiao
Chinese archaeology
Cizhou pillow
Quanzhen Daoism
Conquest Dynasty
mortuary art
Filial piety
Language:
English
Collection:
History of Art and Architecture
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"Even when there is no reception, there is a Dollar General:" Dollar General's Impacts on Food Access and Community Morale in Rural, Suburban and Urban Iowa Communities

Description:
Dollar General is the most numerous store in the United States. With food accounting for the majority of the chain's sales, the stores play an …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Hornbuckle, Eliana C. (creator)
Yapp, Lauren (thesis advisor)
Schneider, Mindi (reader)
Pangborn, Nicole (reader)
Brown University. Urban Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Interviews
Rural health
Food security
Iowa
Perception
Survey
Geospatial data
Rural conditions
Rural-urban relations
Language:
English
Collection:
Urban Studies
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"Freedom Is not Won with Flowers:" An Operational Analysis of the U.S. Occupations of Cuba (1906), Haiti (1915), and Nicaragua (1927)

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
Language:
English
Collection:
International and Public Affairs
Theses and Dissertations
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Full Record

"Frenchmen from Algeria": The 1943 Campaign to Restore the Crémieux Decree and its Limits

Description:
This thesis traces the Jewish-American advocacy campaign of 1943 to restore the Crémieux Decree -- which the French government passed in 1870 and which granted …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Mermelstein, Zoë E. (creator)
Johnson, Jennifer (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Humanitarian assistance
Citizenship
colonialism
Algeria
World War II
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
Jews, American
Mizrahim
French colonies
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
Full Record

"Friendship Inc." Organization Proposal Details

Year:
1961
Genre:
reports
Subject:
Social Conditions
Economic Assistance
Brazil--Bahia (State)
Development Loan Fund (U.S.)
Housing Construction Program
Contractors
Repayment
Friendship inc
Friendship House
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Opening the Archives: Documenting U.S.-Brazil Relations, 1960s-80s
Full Record

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