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The Communal Legitimacy of Collective Violence: Community and Politics in Antebellum New York City Irish Gang Subculture
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This thesis examines the influences that New York City’s Irish-Americans had on the violence, politics, and underground subcultures of the antebellum era. During the Great Famine era of the Irish Diaspora, Irish-Americans in Five Points, New York City, formed strong community bonds, traditions,...
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The Constitutional Democrats and the Jews: National Election Campaigns in Kiev Province, 1905-1912
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This study explores a period of vibrant political life in Imperial Russia through the prism of electoral politics, a powerful modernizing force. In the early twentieth century, the empire embraced practices which transformed the power balance between the imperial centers and borderlands, with...
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The creation of the United Nations Organization as a factor in Soviet foreign policy, 1943-46
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The thesis explores in depth the negotiations to create the United Nations Organization through which Stalin sought to enhance the USSR’s power and prestige via traditional, military-oriented means. Although the Kremlin was relatively successful at maximizing Soviet power within the structure of...
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Fall 2009
The topic of this thesis is the palaestrae of Roman Africa. Although many examples of palaestrae have been found in North Africa, there has never been a study solely focused on these facilities. They have usually been considered only in the context of Roman baths and as features of bath...
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Fall 2010
This study traces the development of public baths in Campania from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. Previous studies contextualize these baths within either the Hellenizing process of Southern Italy linking them to developments in Greece or precipitately linking them to new modes of...
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The discovery of the street: urbanism, gentrification, and cultural change in early nineteenth-century Paris
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During the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848) Paris’ streets underwent significant urban renovation. The eighteenth-century street was transformed from a filthy and dangerous open sewer dominated by carriages into an agreeable paved prom-enade equipped with sidewalks, trees, benches...
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Fall 2021
Comedy and Tacitus are not two words that readily go together. Yet Tacitus, the most important Roman historian of the early Imperial period, used the satirical themes of laughter and mockery in certain scenes of the Annales to highlight the decline of the principate from Claudius to Nero. These...