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Road Power: The Politics of American Highway Development, 1900-1939
(2018)
Road Power uses the development of the American highway system to examine the foundations of the federal state. This thesis argues that the highway bureaucracy accrued power throughout the early twentieth century, providing ...
Reservation Limits: American Indian Urbanization and Uplift in the Twentieth Century
(2014-04-30)
This dissertation takes a macro view of American Indian urbanization and off-reservation employment across the twentieth century, and does so through a wide-angle lens that is not tribe or destination specific. While the ...
Frustrated fortunes: Francis E. Warren and the search for a grazing policy, 1890--1929.
(2007)
Abstract not available.
An analysis of the economic and ideological factors involved in the development of rights to water in the West :
(The University of Oklahoma., 1984)
The last portion of the study offers an empirical test of the hypotheses generated by the model. Ordinary least squares equations are estimated, using the number of water rights cases as an indicator of defining and enforcing ...
From self-made men to crusading women: The gendered evolution of the American temperance movement in the nineteenth century.
(2004)
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it seemingly evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women of the WCTU. But this ...
National stereotypes about Germans in American travel writings, 1815--1914.
(2000)
In the early nineteenth century, Americans believed Germans were sluggish, phlegmatic, kind, and devoted to beer-drinking. By the end of the nineteenth century Americans perceived Germans as efficient, hard-working, ...
Home only long enough: Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary, American science, nationalism, and philanthropy, 1886--1908.
(2003)
American Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary tried for twenty-six years to be the first man to reach the North Pole. The dissertation focuses on Peary's stateside efforts to raise money for his multiple expeditions. During his ...
Relative Distances: Sailors and Women on the Philadelphia Waterfront, 1760-1825
(2023-05-12)
This dissertation uses Philadelphia as a case study to reveal the varied and significant relationships—business, sexual and romantic, and familial—that connected Anglo-Atlantic sailors and women across land and sea between ...
My father's name was Zahtah: Constructing the life history of Alfred Chalepah, Sr.
(2003)
This work examines the life history project of an elderly Native American man. Narratives were recorded during four years of fieldwork. Analysis examines the ways in which elders construct their own identity and draw past ...