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Fall 2020

Hawkins, Cole

The impacts of the transatlantic movement of Indigenous Peoples and goods has yet to be fully realized by scholars of the early modern world. Beginning in the sixteenth century, thousands of Indigenous Peoples and an immeasurable amount of goods and technologies moved eastward to Europe. Upon...

Spring 2023

Molin Cherneski, Kristina S

This thesis examines the history of privacy in nineteenth-century England, primarily London, centered on the lived experience of people who appear to have had little access to private space and time. By studying lodging-houses from the divergent perspectives of lodgers, their middle-class...

Fall 2010

Lieffers, Caroline

The nineteenth-century English middle class was strongly influenced by science, industry, and capitalist managerial techniques. These trends also made their way into the domestic space, where women negotiated their application, particularly in the kitchen. This thesis examines domestic life in...

Fall 2018

Christ, Adrian G

My thesis adds a new dimension to the history of the Baltic region during the early modern period (c. 1500-1800) by focusing on a previously unexamined global commodity from the Baltic: amber. Historically, the Baltic’s commercial activity during this period has been characterized as one...

Fall 2021

Rolfson, Terri L.

The history of female laundry labour in eighteenth-century England, and the accompanying social and economic contributions of such women, has yet to be fully explored by social historians and material culture specialists. Laundry labour was, with very rare exceptions, universally female. This...