Browsing by Author "David Blackbourn"
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Taratko, Carolyn D. (2019-09-23)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the impact of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates about nutrition on plans for agricultural improvement and food production between 1871 and 1923. It demonstrates that the debate ...
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Mapes, Christopher David (2018-08-31)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the relationship between Northern Germans and Atlantic slavery during the period from 1750 to 1850. It argues that German concern for slavery grew out of experiences with Islamic slavery in the ...
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Brignac, Kelly Ann (2014-12-03)Department: HistoryThis paper explores the connections between Bourbon Royalism and the death of paternalism during the Restoration Era and the July Monarchy in Martinique. Martinican planter Pierre Dessalles meticulously recorded his opinions ...
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Williams, J'Nese Nicole (2018-07-31)Department: HistoryMany works on the history of science and the British empire, including histories of botanic gardens in the British colonies, focus on the motivations and actions of people and institutions in metropolitan centers for ...
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Anthony, Patrick Richard (2017-04-10)Department: HistoryThe overwhelming emphasis on Alexander von Humboldt’s American journey has marginalized the vital importance of his training and experience as a mining official in the 1790s. This essay builds upon the insights of historian ...
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Taratko, Carolyn Dee (2014-07-25)Department: HistoryThis paper examines Paul Schultze-Naumburg’s nine –volume series, Kulturarbeiten, published between 1900 and 1917. Schultze-Naumburg was an architect and the first chairman of the Deutscher Bund Heimatschutz. His pre-war ...
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Ostrow, Sonja Gammeltoft (2017-07-20)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines how the Allies introduced public opinion polling to Germany after World War II and investigates how polling eventually became integrated into West German internal governance, political culture, ...
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Taratko, Carolyn Dee (2014-07-25)Department: HistoryThis paper explores the construction and exhibition of the first solar-powered engine at the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris by Augustin-Bernard Mouchot (1825-1912). It traces the development of a discourse of resource ...
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Anthony, Patrick Richard (2017-04-10)Department: HistoryHistorians of science have shown the “research school” to be a fruitful unit of analysis, particularly in the case of chemists and physicists who cultivated loyal groups of acolytes at universities, colonizing fields of ...
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Painter, Cassandra Lynn (2018-07-30)Department: HistoryThis dissertation concerns the life and subsequent cult of veneration of Anna Katharina Emmerick, a Westphalian woman discovered to exhibit stigmata during the Napoleonic occupation and secularization of German Europe. Her ...