Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Degrees "M.A., History"
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Policing in 18th century England : the rise and fall of the thief-taker, 1680-1730.
(2016)Examines why England and subsequently other English speaking countries were reluctant to adopt a governmental police force to reduce crime, hypothesizing that the establishment of Thief-takers as a governmentally backed ... -
Political economic racism : California's policy regarding its Asian immigrants.
(2011)From 1848 - 1943, California enacted a policy known as political economic racism: the act of discriminating against a particular ethnic group economically through the political process. The target of their legislation was ... -
Politics and production control : American farmers and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.
(2011)Throughout the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration enacted numerous federal programs under the umbrella of the New Deal; among these was a series of agriculture regulations designed improve the plight of the American farmer. ... -
A psychological scar: collective trauma and memory in republican Rome, 390-55 BCE
(2021)The sack of Rome by the Gallic chieftain Brennus in 390 BCE was the cause of a collective trauma that influenced all sectors of Roman society. The collective trauma and memory were, in part, responsible for policy changes, ... -
Queen's women : the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1866 and 1869.
(2017)This thesis will examine the implementation of the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDA) of 1866 and 1869 and the process undertaken by those in and out of Parliament to repeal the legislation. This task will be accomplished by ... -
Queering black power : longing for a hero.
(2017)Both Amiri Baraka and James Baldwin had links to the Black Liberation Movements of 1960s and 1970s. Both of these men wrote fiction and social essays on the state of race relations in the United States. Amiri Baraka wrote ... -
Race, politics and sports history : 1960-1980
(2023)This thesis project encompasses the overlap of sports, political, and social history. This provides a unique insight into issues of racial inequality and how they relate to larger geopolitical context of the 1960s into the ... -
Racial identification in colonial Latin America: social class in the visual form
(2024)This thesis will analyze the evolution of racial identity during the colonial period in Spanish Latin America and how Casta paintings in the seventeenth century led to the creation of a society based on social stratification ... -
Religion and politics in the career of William Cecil : an evaluation of Elizabeth I's chief minister.
(2010)While most historians argue William Cecil's ultimate aim was either to build a Protestant England or a powerful government, my thesis concludes that a stable country, both religiously and politically, was his primary ... -
Resisting change : toxic masculinity in the post modern United States Armed Forces, (1980s-Present).
(2019)This thesis examines the changes regarding women and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) serving and toxic masculinity in the United States Armed Forces from the end of Operation Just Cause to the War ... -
Resources, radicals, and reactionaries : the first red scare in Oklahoma.
(2012)The purpose of this study is to identify and explore the major events of the First Red Scare in Oklahoma, and how the distinct resources contained in the state, namely coal and oil, defined its Red Scare experience. This ... -
Revolution, imperialism, and the Hawaiian monarchy : reconsidering American-Hawaiian affairs during the late nineteenth century.
(2014)After 100 years, the Hawaiian kingdom's collapse continues to garner not only academic debate, but also long-standing hostilities rooted in deep-seated sentiments of Pacific Nativism and American Nationalism. From this ... -
Silent history : reclaiming Palestinian cultural patrimony and history and using NAGPRA as a paradigm.
(2011)This study examines the nationalist tendencies of Israeli archaeological policies and practices, but also that nation's infringement on Palestine's cultural patrimony claims and identity. Despite the international community's ... -
Silk, supplies and socialism : how women exercised public power in the American West, 1890-1920
(2023)In my thesis, I reframe the long-held assumption that because women in the United States prior to 1920 were blocked from access to the vote, women did not exercise political or economic influence in their communities. I ... -
Sportswashing in the Cold War: 1950s American golf
(2024)The conclusion of the Second World War brought immense power to the United States of America. The Cold War was the ideological conflict between capitalism and communism; the United States versus the Union of Soviet Socialist ... -
Surgeons of the severed limb: Confederate military medicine in Arkansas, 1863-1865
(2014)By bridging two frequently overlooked subjects in Civil War historiography, medicine and the conflict in the West, this work provides a novel and important perspective on the war in the Trans-Mississippi by examining the ... -
The Bedouins in Palestine : between tradition and occupation.
(2018)Palestinian Bedouins have been unfavourably affected by occupation policies of forced resettlement, urbanisation, and demolition of their homes. This thesis examines the social and cultural change that transformed the ... -
The big break : race and gender in Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West, 1888-1913.
(2013)Wild West shows such as that organized by Gordon William "Pawnee Bill" Lillie were the national pastime of America, and endeavored to teach Euro-Americans about life on the western frontier. Pawnee Bill's traveling show ... -
The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
(2014)This thesis focuses on the political relationship between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the English Crown between 1630 and 1691. It begins with the establishment of the colony and how the Puritans who settled in ... -
The inherent influence of travel on an emerging feminist icon : Florence Nightingale abroad.
(2017)The primary intent of this research is to evaluate and deduce events leading up to, during, and after the travels of Florence Nightingale abroad in Europe and the near East. This work examines the perception of how enforced ...