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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Colonists"”.
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Italian/Americans and the American Racial System: Contadini to Settler Colonists?
<p>This thesis explores the relationship between ethnicity and race, “whiteness,” in the American racial system through the lens of Italian/Americans. Firstly, it overviews the current scholarship on Italian/Americans and whiteness. Secondly, it analyzes methodologies that are useful for …
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The Familiar Foreigner: English Colonists and American Indians Writing Each Other
… early colonial period (1608-c. 1750), English colonists portray Native American cultures as completely foreign yet eerily familiar. Captivity narratives play on foreignness while missionary documents play on familiarity; but both fall back on (and, ultimately, feed on) the other in their …
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The Process of Colonial Adaptation: English Responses to the 1692 Earthquake at Port Royal, Jamaica
<p>This research investigates how colonists adapted to their new tropical environment after a destructive earthquake occurred in Jamaica on June 7, 1692. This earthquake killed approximately two thousand people and destroyed half of the bustling harbor town of Port Royal. The earthquake …
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The sweet, sweet sound of liberty: black settlers and their early education initiative in Liberia, 1820-1860
… Society, and therefore attracting many colonists. The traditional narrative of Liberia's unique history was built on colonization, Christianization, and Westernization. The history of silencing the voices of Black Americans has been a practice in early historiography of Liberia. As a …
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Dreams of Empire: The Japanese Agricultural Colonization of Manchuria (1931--1945) in History and Memory
… Japan's renewed imperial drive: the agricultural colonists themselves. The ""Great Men"" of Japanese imperial history such as Goto Shinpei and Ishiwara Kanji, unfortunately, have long overshadowed the far more numerous agricultural colonists. Where historians have incorporated the latter into …
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The failure of early Bermuda, 1612-1630
… failed to allow sufficient incentive for the colonists to produce high quality cash crops. Little research has been conducted on the early history of Bermuda, and the little that has been done has focused on political events within the colony and colonizing company. This work uses letters, …
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The Contested Ground of the "Peaceable Kingdom": Environmental Change and the Construction of Identity in Early Pennsylvania.
… clashed with the motives of Pennsylvania’s colonists, who wanted a port city that would most efficiently facilitate the export of the colony’s agricultural production. The outcome of the conflict over the nature of Philadelphia was decisive: the colonial city was indeed, in form and …
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Honorable Decisions: Clerical Loyalty During the American Revolution
<p>The American Revolution forced colonists to make important decisions about their political loyalties that influenced every aspect of their lives. This was especially true for the clergy, who often struggled to both protect their flocks from the ravages of war while upholding their religious …
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To See Her Face, To Hear Her Voice: Profiling the Place of Women in Early Upper East Tennessee, 1773-1810.
… the Proclamation Act of 1763 growing numbers of colonists arrived in upper East Tennessee to settle and build wherever they could make arrangements with local groups of Cherokee. While these first families were occupied with survival, the British colonies continued to thrive. Concurrent with …
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The Quebec Act
… were so closely interwoven with many of the colonists that it seemed difficult to draw a line and say what motive predominated.|In justice to the Colonists, it seemed necessary to cast a retrospective glance at the religious situation in America since the landing of the Puritans.|During my …
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Roanoke Colony: The Failure of the First British Colony in America
… between the Native Americans and the British colonists.
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The Art of Plantation Authority: Domestic Portraiture in Colonial Virginia
… conventions to suit the political needs of colonists and to express visions of themselves as agents of empire. This chapter reveals some of the ways Virginians used portraits to engage in transatlantic politics and social networks. Chapter two uncovers the regional preferences for expressing …
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The Salzburger Story and its Legacy in Rincon, Georgia
… Salzburgers, both as religious exiles and as colonists in the New World. Scholarship in this area focuses on the social, political, economic, and religious issues in Europe leading up to the Salzburger expulsion and how these same issues influenced the Salzburgers and how they were perceived …
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Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"
… Europe by the eighteenth century. The American colonists, who were primarily culturally British, thus developed a taste for chinoiserie fashions and wares via their European heritage. While most European countries had direct access to the China trade, colonial Americans were banned from any …
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The English in America: National Identity and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1620--1688
… and yet, book ownership was so fundamental for colonists that one man was accused of being an atheist because he did not have a Bible. While American literary studies usually emphasize the products of the Massachusetts presses, this project focuses on the consumption of books in England and …
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Got Silk?: Buying, Selling, and Advertising British Luxury Imports During the Stamp Act Crisis
… York, and Portsmouth. The findings reveal the colonists' strong connection to imported British luxury goods, and a lack of interest in American-made goods, especially before and after the boycott. Advertisements also demonstrate that the decision of many merchants to place the needs and …
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"too notorious to be denied": The Murdering Gully Massacre(s)
… massacre site to find Taylor had fled, and local colonists provided depositions that were "more of an exculpatory than inculpatory character". Despite Taylor being involved in numerous other violent incidents against Aboriginal people, he was seemingly lauded by colonial society rather than …
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Strangers, foreigners, and fellow citizens: Case studies of English missions to the Indians in colonial New England and the Middle Colonies, 1642-1755
… and that they worked in concert with other colonists to convert the natives and divest them of the ""last vestige"" of their traditional culture. Moreover, several historians have concluded that those Indians who did convert to Christianity did so in an effort to preserve their ethnic …
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"""The power of a wise imagination"": Case studies in value conflict in early eighteenth century America"
… persistent clash of values. During this period, colonists debated the legitimacy of paper money, the role of itinerant ministers, the basis of political power, and the relationship between science and religion. Each of the first three topics is the subject of a case study that centers on a …
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La guerre sauvage: The Seven Years' War on the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier
… was a devastating struggle. About two thousand colonists died, almost as many were captured, and tens of thousands fled for safety in the east. The British and their colonists proved unable to mount an effective military defence: colonial forces proved unfit for warfare in the frontier …
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