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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Western frontier"”.
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Discovering Epic, Constructing Culture: Culture-Politics on China’s Western Frontier
This thesis is the result of 1.5 years of participant observation in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, PRC, and analyses Chinese ‘Cultural Construction’ policies among Xinjiang’s ‘Torghut Mongols’. It explores the complex social and political negotiations that transformed an officially …
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Chapel Hill, Missouri: Lost Visions of America's Vanguard on the Western Frontier 1820 to 1865
… laterally across the Mississippi and settled in western Missouri. The school's success and inevitable failure is a microcosm of the history of migration into western Missouri that was aided and abetted by government, churches, and men perched atop the pinnacle of power. The history of the region …
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Imagining the Home: A practice based critical investigation into the western frontier domestic space and its mediated form
… the narrative positioning of the home within Western films created between 1920 and the early 1960s. It seeks to juxtapose the reality of the home in the construction of the US West with its subsequent mediated representation through film and popular cultural narratives. The interdisciplinary …
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The History of the Early Theatre in Kentucky
… Ralph Leslie Rusk’s The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier.
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From the Bottom up: Isaac Craig and the Process of Social and Economic Mobility During the Revolutionary era
… to entrepreneur and land speculator on the western frontier, illustrates the paradox presented in upward mobility during the Revolutionary era. The era was an exceptional time for social and economic mobility yet few men were able to accomplish it. Thus the period allowed for many men to …
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The Promise of Space in Mark Twain's Traveling Narratives
… unsettle spatial meanings for wilderness and the Western frontier, they demonstrate how those layers of meaning can be altered to promote America's ideals in the midst of its reality.
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Undressing an American icon: Addressing the representation of Calamity Jane through a critical study of her costume
… was so seminal to her emergence as an American frontier icon. Unlike one-off costumes such as Dorothy’s ruby slippers or Marilyn Monroe’s JFK birthday dress, Calamity Jane’s costume re-occurred and was the determining factor in her rise to fame. What is innovative in this research is the use of …
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Reconciling the "mystery letter" : Frémont's fourth expedition, John Kern Strecker, and the Baylor University Museum.
… cannibalism. Significant to the history of the Western frontier, the letter also holds relevance to one of Baylor University's most beloved sons, John Kern Strecker. Revisiting Strecker and the Baylor University Museum through the lens of the undocumented object, much is learned about the …
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Entangled mobility in nineteenth-century American literature
… works we see how a cast of characters including frontiersmen, renegade sailors, and enslaved peoples are often trapped when they reach the margins of the Western frontier, colonial outposts, and plantations. Rather than “lighting out to the territory” or running toward freedom, these characters …
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Creating Virginia: The role of John Lederer in the transition of western Virginia from a wilderness into a colony
… Virginia. Lederer led three expeditions into the western mountains of Virginia in the years 1670-71, and was the first European to document his expeditions in writing. Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, commissioned him to explore the western frontier of Virginia in hopes of finding a …
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Casting off the old Kaross: the Little Namaqualand missions, 1805-1848
… century was the epicentre of the north-western frontier zone of the Cape Colony. It had long been home to the Little Namaqua, a Khoikhoi group, who occupied the central and mountainous region of the Kamiesberg, the San, who moved between the Kamiesberg and Bushmanland to the east, and …
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Use of Federal Troops in Civil Disturbances 1892-1968
… disturbance is defined as excluding Indian wars, western frontier violence and all incidents prior to the passage of the Posse Comitatus Act in 1878, which forbade the use of federal troops as routine civil law enforcers. The incidents range from the Coeur 'd'Alene Idaho incident to the race riots …
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MOBOCRACY: THE MOB AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1782-1851
… that the hope of the "neutral ground" on the frontier is a myth. The sea-novels of Herman Melville, Richard Penn Smith's Col. Crockett, and political cartoons of the 1830s, reveal that corrupt captains are formed wherever Americans look for freedom, whether that be at sea or on the western …
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'A plea for Missouri' : the American Home Missionary Society and the Civil War-era struggle for Missouri and the West
… society. It sought to spread the Gospel on the western frontier, thereby laying the foundation for an expanded, Godly American republic and the millennium foretold in the Book of Revelation. With its central location and abundant natural resources, Missouri was central to this effort. The AHMS …
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"From Daniel Boone to the Beverly Hillbillies: tales of a ""fallen"" race, 1873-1968"
… Mountains emerged in lore as the manly frontier setting where such figures as Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, Kit Carson, Andrew Jackson, and others carved out the wilderness and forged a nation. Theodore Roosevelt went so far as to proclaim that these men and their progeny comprised a …
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Mountain Man : Fact and Fiction
… of journals, accounts of travelers to the frontier, novels, poetry, and film, the building of this sometime roughneck into an alltime hero is demonstrated. Extensive study is given to Hugh Glass, one of the first mountain men, and to John Johnston, one of the last. The major sources dealing …
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An episode in United States foreign trade : silver and gold, Santa Fe and St. Louis (1820-1840)
… with England, and develop a wilderness on its western frontier. The problems were made more difficult because citizens of the United States lacked not only financial experience, but also adequate liquid capital. Mexico, however, had gold and silver ores and the capacity to mint coin. Northern …
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Poison, Power and Perception: A Biography of Mabel of Belleme (1030-1082)
… century, rose to be masters of the southern and western frontier of Normandy, and how implausible stories about Mabel came to be included in Orderic Vitalis’s twelfth century history of the Norman church. My thesis is that Mabel relied upon the Bellême power initially created in the ninth century …
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Carbonado: The History of a Coal Mining Town in the Foothills of Mount Rainier, 1880-1937
… of the formation and discovery of coal in Western Washington, the fifty-seven year history of active coal mining was covered in this project. Topics included town leadership, coal mining peculiarities in the region, living in a company town, the plight of Chinese workers in the 1880s, and …