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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"970 History of North America"”.
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The investigation of scandal from Watergate to Monicagate: the special prosecutor in late twentieth century American politics
The aim of the thesis is to assess critically the role of the Special Prosecutor in recent US politics and to assess the rise and relative decline of the reputation of the office in the period from the Watergate scandal of the mid 1970s to the Lewinsky scandal of the late 1990s. The project will …
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Black British subjects in Cuba: race, ethnicity, nation, and identity in the migratory experience, 1898-1938
This thesis examines the history of black British Caribbean migrants in Cuba during the early twentieth century. It centres on their experience of social and racial discrimination within Cuban society, and how this was influenced by the historical legacy of black fear in Cuba and the social, …
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Cotton Mather's cosmology and the 1692 Salem witch trials
… role in them continue to engage the interests of historians and scholars, who have written about them from a number of perspectives, including those derived from most of the social sciences. However, Mather's own seventeenth-century, New England historical-theological context, has attracted …
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Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War
This study places the experiences of black Jamaican volunteers in the Great War in the context of challenges to white masculinity presented by the conflict. Elaine Showalter's discussion of "male hysteria" is developed to show that the prevalence of shell shock brought into question constructs of …