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The Roots of Persecution: a comparison of leprosy and madness in late medieval thought and society
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This thesis compares madness and leprosy in the late Middle Ages. The first two chapters explore the conceptualization of madness and leprosy, finding that both were similarly moralized and associated with sin and spiritual degeneration. The third chapter examines the leper and the mad person as...
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The Spread of Britishness: Coffee Houses, Circulating Libraries, and the Formation of Gender in the Atlantic World, 1750-1820
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During the second half of the eighteenth century, Britain saw a rapid growth of its printing industry and an expansion of both its national and international book trade. One of the most important export markets was the British Atlantic. This large and highly diverse region was home to some of the...
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The Ten Mathematical Classics: The Mathematics and Mathematical Education of Pre-Modern China
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The Ten Mathematical Classics were the only imperially prescribed mathematics textbooks in pre-modern China. They were used during the Sui (581 – 618), Tang (618 – 906), and Northern Song (960 – 1127) dynasties at the imperial academy to structure the mathematical training of students. This...
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The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and the Great Upheaval: Mining, Colonialism, and Environmental Change in the Klondike, 1890-1940
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This study examines the colonial history of gold mining in the Klondike region of the central Yukon from 1890 to 1940. The Klondike Gold Rush marked the beginning of major transition in the lives of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in that lasted well into the 20th century. Mining worked to reorganize and...
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The Ukrainian Legal Press of the General Government: The Case of Krakivski Visti, 1940-1944
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The dissertation is a narrative history of Krakivski Visti (Cracow News), the leading legal Ukrainian newspaper of the General Government, which was created out of German-occupied Poland after September 1939 and headed by a prominent Nazi party member Hans Frank until the end of World War II....
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The United States Air Force and the emergence of the intercontinental ballistic missile, 1945 - 1954
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In March 1954, the United States Air Force decided to give a high priority to developing an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). This missile, when armed with nuclear warheads, became the central and defining weapon of the Cold War. Following the political controversy in the United States...
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Spring 2011
Livia (58 BC-AD 29), wife of the first emperor Augustus and mother of his successor Tiberius, became the first Roman woman whose image held a substantial place on coins of the Roman Empire. While predecessors such as Fulvia and Octavia, wives of Marc Antony, were the first Roman women to appear...
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This is Not For You: The Rise and Fall of Music Milieux in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, 1950s -1990s
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This thesis examines the rise and fall of music communities in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest from the 1950s to the 1990s: the jazz mileu in Seattle in the 1950s, the Pacific Northwest garage rock network of the 1960s, and the alternative music community of the 1980s and early 1990s. It looks...