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The Forgotten Crusaders: Western Missionaries in the Chinese Anti-Opium Movement
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2019-04-30)
As the most notorious drug in China, opium is repeatedly taught in school, and nearly all Chinese people could list its harmful effects. Yet instead of being taught in biology class as an addictive drug, it is introduced ...
“Detroit ‘Polar Bears’ in the Land of Lice and Snow: The American Soldier Experience in North Russia, 1918 – 1919”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-26)
This thesis examines the experience of American soldiers serving in North Russia in 1918 – 1919, an expedition often referred to as an offshoot of World War One. It bases its conclusions by utilizing the comprehensive Polar ...
“Jeffrey Sachs and the Costs of Capitalism. Shock Therapy in eastern European Transition Economies”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-20)
This thesis examines economist Jeffrey Sachs’s implementation of shock therapy in transition economies from 1985-1994. Analysis begins with the foundation of the practice in Bolivia, and examines the changes in the approach ...
Warring Worldviews on the Field of Honor in late Medieval Spain
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)
Around the start of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Díez de Games, standard bearer of the Castilian knight Don Pero Niño, wrote in his biographical chronicle of Niño about “How our Lord Jesus Christ desired for victors in ...
The Path to War: Internal Motivation and Societal Influences in the First Crusade, 1095-1099
(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)
On the 27th of November 1095, a large crowd watched and listened to the head of their Church. Prior to this moment, hundreds of Frankish nobles and ecclesiastical officials had gathered at the Council of Clermont in Auvergne, ...
To Win the Hearts and Minds: The Combined Action program During the Vietnam War
(2019-04-29)
On May 4, 1965, two months after the first Marines landed in Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson spoke at a dinner meeting with the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. “So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam," he famously announced, ...
National Health Insurance in an Age of Limits: Jimmy Carter’s Abandoned Agenda
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)
This thesis examines Jimmy Carter’s health policy in the context of declining New Deal liberalism. Although Carter had campaigned in 1976 on a platform that embraced national health insurance, a major unfinished goal of ...
“Benign Negligence: U.S.-South Korean Relations at the End of the Carter Administration”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)
President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
Neglecting and Misrepresenting Latin America: Foreign Correspondents at the New York Times from 1966-1968
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2018)
The Cold War dominated United States’ foreign policy in the Sixties. With the Cuban Revolution and the perceived Communist threat in Chile, among other events, Latin America also became a region of greater strategic ...
“In Short, I am a West Indian": Planters, Performance, Anxiety, and Abolition in Georgian Britain
(2018)
Kathleen Wilson writes that the domestic elite of Georgian Britain sought a psychological "disavowal" of the West Indian planting class because elite flaws were reflected in the perceived degeneracy and excess of the ...