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  • American ideology and the atomic bomb

    Creator:
    Swartz, Scott E.
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    On August 6, 1945 the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The events that led up to the United States' decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese...
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    Masters Thesis
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    American ideology and the atomic bomb AN ABSTRACT OF THE

  • Exiles and rebels : women in the American left 1900-1920

    Creator:
    Cummings, Katherine H.
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    Between 1900 and 1920 women were responsible for much of the social and political activity in the United States. Recent work by feminist historians has revealed that women were interested in a broad range of issues at the turn of the twentieth century. The American Left addressed such issues as...
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    Exiles and rebels : women in the American left 1900-1920

  • Frank and Friendly Pressure : U.S. Liberal Interventionism in the Early Cold War

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    Fuller, Kevin J.
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    U.S. foreign policy during the period between World War II and the Vietnam War has been described as part of a “nation-­‐building” or “liberal” grand strategy. This thesis contends that understanding U.S. efforts to influence the internal affairs of sovereign states through the spread of liberal values and institutions during...
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    -­‐French  Indochina  War  South  Vietnam   (1954-­‐1955),  and  Latin  American

  • The Consular Service of the United States

    Creator:
    Carmichael, George B.
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    The consular service of the United States is the outgrowth of the necessities arising from the various conditions in which our government has been from time to time. In the early part of the Revolutionary War our foreign representatives had very diverse and comprehensive duties. They exercised fiscal, diplomatic, and...
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    came to exercise them in the protection of American seamen. There was no efficient means of assign

  • Rosa Gonzalez Gomez : a Mexican woman's story

    Creator:
    Browning, Richard L.
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    Using an oral history method, the author has recorded the life history of Rosa González Gómez, a Mexican woman who spends part of each year in the United States and part in Mexico. Comparing the story of Rosa's life, as told in her own words, with literature in the social...
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    . Today (New York: North American Congress on Latin America, 1979) 130, 139-42. 28Cockcroft 148-49

  • Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

    Creator:
    Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
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    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...
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    FRONTIER CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION On the North American mining frontier, which extended over time from

  • Sojourners in the Oregon Siskiyous : Adaptation and Acculturation of the Chinese Miners in the Applegate Valley, Ca. 1855-1900

    Creator:
    LaLande, Jeffrey M.
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    The study examines the acculturation and environmental adaptation of nineteenth century Chinese miners in a portion of southwestern Oregon. The problem concerns the varieties of culture change which resulted when this ethnic group found itself required to subsist in a new social and physical environment. The study focuses on the...
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  • Devil Dog Diplomacy and the abandonment of military tradition : United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934

    Creator:
    Geissler, Eric L.
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    During the U.S. military interventions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti between 1915 and 1934, Washington equipped members of the its armed forces with civil and political powers that represented a radical departure from the North American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the disappointments...
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    American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the

  • Prehistoric Culture Diffusion in the Gran Chichimeca

    Creator:
    Lee, Eugene C. (Eugene Carlton)
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    The Gran Chichimeca is a North American area extending from the Tropic of Cancer to the south to the thirty-eighth parallel in the north, thus embracing northern Mexico and the American Southwest. The rise of the great mesoamerican civilizations to the south of the Gran Chichimeca and the consequent pressure...
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    Gran Chichimeca is a North American area extending from the Tropic of Cancer to the south to the

  • Fish Tales: Salmon Stories, 1945-1980

    Creator:
    Finley, Carmel
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    Approximately $1 billion a year is spent on salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Spending has escalated, yet the number of wild runs placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act has increased, creating social and political controversy. For more than 100 years, salmon management in the Pacific Northwest has...
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    U.S.S.R., Canada and the United States. At the same time, human activities, including logging, mining