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China and France in the Nineteenth Century

Creator:: Leggatt, Nick
Abstract:: In studying Western, especially French, imperialist action in China during the nineteenth century, this thesis argues that contemporary Sino-Western relations took various forms across various social strata on both sides, and the general terms used to classify them are erroneous: in effect, there was no "Chinese" response to "the West,"...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: China and France in the nineteenth century AN ABSTRACT OF

The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century controversy

Creator:: Blaisdell, Muriel Louise
Abstract:: Mimicry, obscure colors, and secondary sexual colors were important classes of observations that were analyzed by nineteenth century biologists from several vantage points. Adherents of the doctrine of special creation of fixed species believed animal colors to be evidence of design; Darwin and Wallace and their successors suggested that a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century

Culture built upon the land : a predictive model of nineteenth-century Canadien/Métis farmsteads.

Creator:: Hebert, James Michael
Abstract:: The objective of this thesis is to provide a predictive model for the archaeological investigation of the first farmsteads in the Pacific Northwest, established in the early- and mid-nineteenth century by Canadien and Métis families retiring from their service in the fur trade. Past studies of this population have either...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presented on April 13, 2007. Title: Culture Built Upon the Land: A Predictive Model of Nineteenth-Century

Mid-Nineteenth Century Clay Smoking Pipes from Fort Hoskins (35BE15) and Fort Yamhill (35PO75), Oregon

Creator:: Zentgraf, Diane M.
Abstract:: Over the past 42 years clay smoking pipes have been excavated from two U.S. army posts, Fort Hoskins (35BE15) and Fort Yamhill (35PO75) and curated at Oregon State University. These two forts were established in Western Oregon in 1856 and by 1866 both had been decommissioned. Numerous theses have focused...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Nineteenth Century Clay Smoking Pipes from Fort Hoskins (35BE15) and Fort Yamhill (35PO75), Oregon

Factors affecting changes in color of men's dress in France from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries

Creator:: Thackeray, Renee
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: period from the sixteenth t-hrough the 7 nineteenth century in which me:n•s clothing rea.ohed a new

Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

Creator:: Steinert, Laura
Abstract:: Within The Lamplighter, a novel written in 1854, Maria Susanna Cummins defines a version of the sentimental novel that significantly differs from the prescriptive analysis male critics have offered for the genre. This thesis argues that feminist theory and recent rhetorical theory have caused a critical paradigm shift that has...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: "revival of interest in nineteenth-century American literature" began with Nina Baym's publication of

Psychotherapeutic encounters : masculine ideals of gender and the construction of hysteria in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America / by Brent W. Misso

Creator:: Misso, Brent W.
Abstract:: Early nineteenth-century America witnessed social change which significantly altered the structure of human relationships. Out of this transformation came new configurations of gender and sexuality which colored relations between the sexes well into the twentieth century. But these gender prescriptions did not merely serve to pattern male/female interactions, they informed...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Masculine Ideals of Gender and the Construction of Hysteria in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

Creator:: Franks, Tricia May
Abstract:: In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: nineteenth-century accounts of race.4 However, critics have noted that the creators of these literary

Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

Creator:: Tracy, Hannah R.
Abstract:: The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: motherhood and eugenics, though from very different political perspectives, each infutsmg their literature

Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

Creator:: Owen, Lois Darling
Abstract:: The purpose of the study was to attempt to develop a methodological approach which would tap the contribution of the literary artist to the understanding of human behavior. It was assumed that a content analysis of the social attitudes expressed in fiction would yield data which was complimentary, if not...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: domestic novels, which flourished in America in the middle of the nineteenth 13 century in a way

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China and France in the Nineteenth Century

The coloration of animals : a nineteenth century controversy

Culture built upon the land : a predictive model of nineteenth-century Canadien/Métis farmsteads.

Mid-Nineteenth Century Clay Smoking Pipes from Fort Hoskins (35BE15) and Fort Yamhill (35PO75), Oregon

Factors affecting changes in color of men's dress in France from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries

Maria Susanna Cummins' "The Lamplighter" : a revisioning of a sentimental writer of the nineteenth-century United States as rhetor, social critic, and feminist

Psychotherapeutic encounters : masculine ideals of gender and the construction of hysteria in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America / by Brent W. Misso

"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

Content analysis of fiction as a technique for studying attitudes in social relationships

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