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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Post-Civil War"”.
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Agricultural production, supply and institutions in the post-Civil War South.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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The Blessed and the Damned: Peacemakers, Warlords, and Post Civil War Democracy
… how democracies emerge out of the ashes of civil wars. This paper envisions transitions to democracy after a civil war largely as a function of the peace process. Democracy is thought of as a medium through which solutions to the problems and issues over which the civil war was fought can be …
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Seeing Whiteness: the Progression and Regression of White Identity in Four Post-Civil War Literary Generations
… Reconstruction, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement and the 21st century. It examines the work of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Kurt Vonnegut and contemporary writers George Saunders, J.D. Vance, and Jonathan Franzen. It seeks to understand patterns in racism, white nationalism, …
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Mapping the works of Manuel de Pedrolo in relation to the post-civil war Catalan landscape
… toolkit (cultural geography, urban studies, postcolonial approaches) with distant-readings provided by the use of GIS and a text-mining script, benaura.py, specifically created for this project.
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Unresolved: notions of ‘truth’ in interpretations of post civil war era artworks by Akram Zaatari and Walid Raad
… surrounding the events of the recent Lebanese war. Long after physical combat ended, the different parties involved continued to cling to mutually exclusive narratives, and so both artists see truth as a continuing casualty of the events of the civil war. While one artist, Zaatari, seems to …
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Reconciliation through reintegration? : a study on spatial proximity and social relations in two post-civil war Beirut neighborhoods
Although the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1991 and Beirut became a reunified city, much of it remains divided between a Christian East and a Muslim West. Beyond certain parts of the capital, many of its residential neighborhoods remain almost entirely religiously homogeneous. This study takes an …
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Violence and Social Unrest: Implications of the Reconstruction Amendments for African Americans in the Post Civil War South, 1863-1877
… fabric of America after a long and bloody Civil War. Though Democrats and Republicans differed dramatically on their principles of equality for African Americans, these rights became part of the Constitution and propelled a nation and its citizens into a protracted and racialized civil war …
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Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the racially and ethnically diverse communities that surrounded the posts they garrisoned, revealing how black enlisted men viewed and attempted to define their positions …
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John W. E. Thomas: A Political Biography of Illinois' First African American State Legislator
… discuss African American politics and society in post Civil War Chicago.
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"The Verdict of History": Defining and Defending James Buchanan through Public Memorialization
… of every president during this period. The Civil War, however, marked a significant shift in national meanings of patriotism. Civic virtue and morality gave way to post-Civil War ideals of warrior heroism. No longer would presidents simply be expected to maintain virtue and character; …
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The Midwestern brewery before Prohibition: Development of an American industrial building type
… the brewery as a distinctive type of post-Civil War industrial building, analyzing its characteristic features and considering the circumstances under which it became a common architectural feature in America until national Prohibition. By focusing on Cincinnati and St. Louis, the …
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Strategies for Commercialization: Missouri Agriculture, 1860-1880
… of agricultural change in Missouri during the post-Civil War period is not one of commercialization creating opportunities for farmers to specialize. Instead, it is the story of commercialization fostering diversification.
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Violence In The Wake Of Civil War: Investigating The Transformation Of Intergroup Relations In Nepal And Mozambique
When a civil war ends there is a formal cessation of hostilities between the warring groups. Yet the termination of fighting does not necessarily end the violence, which can persist into post-war years. The study of post-civil war violence as a distinct phenomenon is dominated by explanations that …
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La Memoria Historica en Cinco Horas con Mario (1966) de Miguel Delibes y Si te dicen que cai (1973) de Juan Marse
… society experienced during and after the Spanish Civil War? And most importantly, why should we care? The importance of understanding the experiences of the past is for one to learn from them so that history is not repeated but re-written. In order to learn and understand what one has never …
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Power of the Southern melting pot: analysis of Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus as Southern folklore and cultural appropriation
… European and African folklore to further his own Post-Civil War psyche, attempting to preserve the ideal Southern past. Such preservation efforts are literally significant for they provide examples of appropriation that are done not out of an attempt to oppress European and African culture, but to …
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Only Nixon Could Go to China: L. Q. C. Lamar and the Politics of Reconciliation
… to advocate for reconciliation in the post-Civil War period illustrates the complexity of politics at that time. This thesis examines Lamar's life and provides an historiographic survey of Lamar scholarship to date. From this review, the thesis moves to new and necessary areas of …
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Assumption
… a racially hostile environment in antebellum and post-Civil War Louisiana. Assumption Parish was the kind of place where slaves were whipped frequently, where disease and rustic living were the normal course of life, where the swamp, with all its savage foreboding, loomed nearby. It was a place, …
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The Wartime Origins of Postwar Democratization: Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes
Despite widespread depiction of civil war as a pathway to autocracy or state failure, the empirical record shows significant variation in post-civil war states' regime trajectories. While some states settled into durable authoritarianism, others went on to enter the ranks of electoral democracies …
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The Formation of the Washington Intellectual Community, 1870-1898
<p>These pages deal with the post-Civil War emergence in Washington of a self-conscious body of government-scientists and local intellectuals, men whose group identity was established by the network of clubs and societies which they founded and whose self-image was derived from an awareness of …
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