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T’aih k’ìighe’ tth’aih zhit dìidìch’ùh (By Strength, We Are Still Here): Indigenous Northerners Confronting Hierarchies of Power at Day and Residential Schools in Nanhkak Thak (the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories), 1959 to 1982
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Through archival sources, interviews, and my own experience as the daughter and grandaughter of Gwichyà Gwich’in women who were institutionalized in Inuuvik and Aklavik, I explore the uniquely northern experience of Indigenous children who were consigned to Inuuvik’s Indian Residential Schools –...
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Fall 2012
Previous work on ethnicity in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) has cast the An Shi Rebellion (An Lushan Rebellion) as a kind of “breaking point” between the cosmopolitan, foreigner-friendly first half of the Tang Dynasty and the conservative, xenophobic second half. This paper analyzes the Rebellion...
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The Baltic Amber Trade, c. 1500-1800: The Effects and Ramifications of a Global Counterflow Commodity
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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...
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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...