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Munger, Michael
(University of Oregon, 2012)
The catastrophic eruption of the Indonesian volcano Mt. Tambora in April 1815, which ejected a cloud of sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, plunged the world into a rapid temporary climate change event. A series of ...
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Gorham, Chandler
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This thesis examines the changing role of Arizona State University (ASU) in Phoenix and the United States from 1950 to 1994. The regional alliance of boosters in Phoenix made ASU a key part of the Valley’s economy as the ...
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Wing, Olivia
(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
Japanese Americans on the West Coast experienced multiple losses of home before, during, and after their incarceration during World War II. Repeated and coerced migration and exclusion uprooted Japanese Americans from ...
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Guest, Lacey
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
Marriage education emerged in universities across the United States in the 1920s as a response to a perceived “marriage crisis.” Over the next several decades, marriage educators shaped marriage course content to reflect ...
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Anderson, Scott Patrick, 1956-
(University of Oregon, 2010-09)
As a key figure in Imperial Russia's Great Reforms from 1861 to 1874, Count Dmitrii Alekseevich Miliutin has received a good deal of attention by historians and scholars; however, his recently published memoirs have yet ...
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Hunter, Rebekah
(University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)
This study acts as a response to questions surrounding the position of women in the Heian court as encountered by earlier scholars. To that end this study examines the construction of the Heian concept of femininity with ...
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Phinney, Edward Sterl
(University of Oregon, 1963-06)
A study of existing materials raised questions about Meacham: Was he a sincere well-intentioned reformer, or was he a fool? Did he deserve the abuse heaped upon him by Oregonians and Coloradans? Was the support of eastern ...
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Alexander, Roman
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
This thesis explores how and why two capitalistic American corporations were granted access to the Soviet Union's internal market. For decades communist leadership railed against what they termed "cheap bourgeois consumption," ...
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Lozar, Patrick
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States government, in its relations with Native Americans, implemented a policy of assimilation designed to detribalize Indian peoples and absorb them into ...
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Angeles, Jose Amiel
(University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)
The Philippine-American War has rarely been analyzed from the Filipino viewpoint. As a consequence, Filipino military activity is little known or misunderstood. This study aims to shed light on the Filipino side of the ...
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Malouf, Naseeb Mahfoud
(University of Oregon, 1951-06)
The writer has attempted to trace, in this paper, the coming of Asahel Bush to Oregon and the part he played in its growth as a territory and in its creation and further maturation as a state. Intermingled in the story are ...
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Roberts, Jenette Elizabeth
(University of Oregon, 1939-08)
This study endeavors to show the part played in Oregon
during the years 1851-1913 by Asahel Bush, pioneer editor,
politician, and banker.
The writer has made use of the plentiful source
material available for the ...
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Hybertson, Larry
(1961-06)
The usefulness of public opinion studies in historical analysis has been amply demonstrated by many recent and contemporary historians. My purpose in this thesis is not to defend the concept but to contribute in a small ...
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Mahar, Franklyn Daniel, 1939-
(University of Oregon, 1964-06)
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Gunyon, Richard
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
The scholarship regarding the education of American Indians has focused primarily on the trials and atrocities of the period between 1870 and 1930. This thesis expands this analysis and explores the shifts in Indian ...
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Smith, Christopher
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
“Big Tales of Indians Ahead” traces the reproduction of settler colonial discourses—sentiments narrated by a settler society about themselves and about the Native American societies that predated them—from the period of ...
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Ingram, Margaret
(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)
This thesis examines the concept of “speaking bodies” in the early modern European world, primarily in the seventeenth century. Demoniacs and corpses that bled due to cruentation are examined comparatively through the lens ...
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Cooke, Raymond McIntyre
(1963-08)
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Phillips, Robert Foster
(1957-06)
The aims of this thesis are twofold; first, to examine the policy of Great Britain in the Baltic provinces in those troubled times immediately following World War I; and, second, to show how British policy in this area ...
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