This study traces British government policies with regard to Palestine from the time the British Expeditionary Forces under General Allenby invested Jerusalem in December 1917 to the imposition of the Mandate with Britain as the Mandatory power, which came into effect on July 22, 1922. The first chapter provides an...
The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate
and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life
and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh,
Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is
developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas.
The mutual-aid...
The term "cowboy" was closely bound to American image long before the
1990s. Rodeo claimed the image of the cowboy from the earliest contests to the
latest and pledged itself to patriotism almost as early. This historical study was
conducted viewing rodeo as a subculture and relating women's role in...
Altitudinal variations in upland regions of the earth create
variable climatic zones and conditions. Plant and animal
communities must adapt to these conditions, and when they reach
their tolerance limits for environmental conditions at the upper
levels of a zone, they cease to exist in the environment. Humans
also utilize...
By examining the combined written, ethnographic and physical evidence of a surviving
steam-powered sawmill in the Douglas-fir region of the Pacific Northwest, this thesis
seeks to supply new insights into the operation and adaptability of antiquated machinery
during a period of rapid social and technological change and to develop a...
The prehistory of Central Oregon is explored through the examination of six archaeological sites and two isolated finds from the Upper Deschutes River Basin. Inquiry focuses on the land use, mobility, technological organization, and raw material procurement of the aboriginal inhabitants of the area. Archaeological data presented here are augmented...
Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier
prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor
population are hypothetically...