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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"1880–1920"”.
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The immigrant experience in Albuquerque, 1880-1920
… residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 1880 to 1920. Its primary aim is to determine how immigrants in one southwestern urban area fit into the history of American immigration. Topics considered include economic and geographic mobility, marriage and family patterns, and degree of …
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Playing Modern: Essaying, 1880–1920, Wilde, Chesterton, Woolf
Between 1880 and 1920, both urban England and essays published in urban England underwent seismic shifts and splits, as population grew, education and technology advanced, and periodical publishing expanded. The city grew both larger in size and smaller in units of comprehensibility, and many of …
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Rethinking Vivekananda through Space and Territorialised Spirituality, c. 1880-1920
… Space and Territorialised Spirituality, c. 1880-1920 This dissertation examines Vivekananda (1863 - 1902) as an itinerant monk rather than the nationalist ideologue he has become in recent scholarship. Historians have approached Vivekananda as either a pioneer of Hindu nationalism or as the …
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From Pittsburgh to Pressburg : the transatlantic Slovak national movement, 1880-1920
Between 1870 and 1920, half a million Slovak-speaking migrants left the Kingdom of Hungary for the United States of America. They represented one fifth of the world's Slovak-speaking population. During this mass, transatlantic Slovak migration, Slovak nationalism in Hungary was transformed from a …
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Between religion and politics: The working class religious left, 1880-1920
… and Politics: The Working Class Religious Left, 1880-1920 makes two main arguments: First, through an analysis of socialist print culture and party meeting minutes, it argues that Christianity animated socialist culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, wage earners …
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Material culture, social networks, and the Chinese of Ouray, Colorado, 1880-1920
This study examines a sample of artifacts recovered from the Vanoli Site (5OR30) encompassing a privy and trash midden located directly behind an historic Chinese laundry. Previous research in Overseas Chinese archaeology has focused on historically large Chinese communities and processes of …
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Electrifying the streets : the surface-contact controversy in five English towns 1880-1920
The turn of the nineteenth century was an exciting time for urban transport innovation. Inventors and entrepreneurs sought a power source that was efficient and economical. In some towns, however, other considerations were equally important in choices about transport mode and subsequent operation. …
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The Embodiment of Citizenship: Sovereignty and Colonialism in the Cherokee Nation, 1880--1920
"The dissertation focuses on four arenas of experience and policy formation---marriage, law, medicine, and education---in which Cherokees and Americans articulated representational bodily images and created policy with long-lasting effects in both nations. In this period, marriage became the symbol …
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"""Raising the specter"": Poems and songs of the American Radical Left, 1880-1920"
… technological change. We now know the period 1880-1920 in terms of the rise of modernism, as a time when disaffection with Victorian values was reflected in the breakdown of traditional art forms and experimentation in art moved significantly away from the referential model. ""Raising the …
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Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920
This dissertation seeks to expand our conception of what constitutes Native American letters by examining how the periodical became a prominent form in Native American literary production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its focus on the boarding school, Writing against …
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Casting Bread Upon the Waters: American Farming and the International Wheat Market, 1880-1920
In the late 19th and early 20th century, as wheat production and marketing were transformed in scale and in practice, American farmers tried to make sense of how they were positioned within a rapidly growing and changing international market. They tried to formulate a response that would gain them …
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Bodies That Struggle: A Study of the Use of Illness in Spanish Women's Writing, 1880--1920
"My results show that women involved in the hygiene crusade embraced exercise and dress reform largely because of the social and political freedoms they saw as resulting from these reforms, as well as the benefits to their own health. For the literary section of this study, I focus on three …
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Domestic Servants on the New York and London Stages: 1880 - 1920 With an Emphasis on Costume
From 1880 to 1920, a social revolution took place in the United States and England, a revolution more costly in terms of human life and property than the French Revolution that preceded it a century earlier. Slow-moving, massive, and comprehensive, this social revolution had the same aim as its …
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Nature in practice : the Olmsted firm and the rise of landscape architecture an planning, 1880-1920
This dissertation examines the development of the fields of landscape architecture and planning during the career of John Charles Olmsted. It attributes to him much of what happened in that period to standardize landscape architecture and planning practice. After Frederick Law Olmsted's retirement …
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Configuración de la identidad docente y la comunidad escolar en Chile. Educación, Estado y soberanía (1880 - 1920)
… del sistema escolar en Chile durante el periodo 1880-1920. Considerando que esta construcción de la identidad comunitaria está lejos de corresponder a un devenir espontáneo y que sus consecuencias no son producto de un proceso cultural desafectado, sino que corresponde a una manufactura simbólica …
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The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
"The Erotics of Race Suicide" examines the frequent representation of suicide in Progressive Era American literature in light of a widely proclaimed socio-political concept of the time: “race suicide.” Coined by the sociologist Edward Ross, the term “race suicide” nominates a nativist fear over the …
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A Page Without Borders: the transnational world of youth correspondence pages in New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1880-1920
This thesis examines the vast world of anglophone youth correspondence pages in New Zealand, Australia and Canada during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. A hugely popular feature within family periodicals, youth correspondence pages contained letters written by young people of …
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