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Discontent on the Range: Uncovering the Origins of Public Grazing Lands Politics
(2014-05)
Recent conflicts between ranchers, environmentalists, and federal range management experts on western public lands are a product of different perceptions of the landscape that crystallized by the middle of the twentieth ...
Charro: The Transnational History of a Cultural Icon
(2014-05-09)
This is a transnational cultural history of the charro horseman in Mexico and the United States. It begins with an analysis of the archetype in nineteenth century art and literature, exploring various works of visual and ...
Sovereignty on Trial, The Delaware-Cherokee Relationship Divided in Conflict
(2010)
This study explores the conflict between two Indian nations, the Delaware Tribe of Indians (headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma (headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma). The removal ...
Gender and Jewish Conversion to Christianity in Medieval France and Germany, 1095-1450
(2018)
This dissertation argues that gender is an important tool of analysis in understanding Jewish conversion to Christianity in the High Middle Ages. It establishes that Christian sources describe Jewish women as malleable ...
Defining Rights: Contesting the Contra War Through Human Rights Advocacy, 1981-1988
(2018-05-12)
Non-governmental organizations successfully limited U.S. support of counterrevolutionary guerrillas (Contras) in Nicaragua in the 1980s by advocating for peace through a lexicon of human rights. NGOs deployed their message ...
Clyde Warrior's "Red Power": A Fresh Air of New Indian Idealism
(2012)
Clyde Warrior's "Red Power": A Fresh Air of New Indian Idealism is an ethnobiography of one of the most outspoken young activist of the early Red Power movement. Based on primary source research and the oral history of ...
Recreating Main Street: Midcentury U.S. Expatriate Soft Power in the Heart of Mexico, 1930-1980
(2019-12-13)
The American Colonists of Mexico City were used as conduits of and representatives for U.S. foreign policy and U.S. corporate influence in post WWII Mexico in a reconfiguration of the Good Neighbor policy. By using soft ...