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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

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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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: United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS
Relation of costume to cultural change of a selected group of Indians of Middle America

Creator:

Hunter, Margaret

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The purposes of this study are to observe how change in the culture of the Mayas is reflected in the change or development of the costume and to appreciate the greatness of this culture. The knowledge of the costume of these Mayas as a piece of information is not as...

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Masters Thesis

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geographical locations chosen comprise only parts of Central America and Flexico (Plate 1). Specific
Mayan Bilinguality and Cultural Change in Ancient and Contemporary Mesoamerica

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Smith, William Hoyt

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The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyphic sculpture are included as examples, and represent artistic styles and language variations of written Cholan and Yucatec. Modern Cholan and Yucatecan...

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Masters Thesis

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North, Central, and South America (Wolf, 1959: 34). In Mexico alone there are approximately two hundred