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Temple University
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Watts, Robert (Daud).
Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829.
Degree: PhD, 2011, Temple University
URL: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,212646 
► African American Studies
Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829 The lenses through which our common perceptions of…
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▼ African American Studies
Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829 The lenses through which our common perceptions of African/Black agency in the antebellum period are viewed, synthetic textbooks and maps, rarely reveal the tremendous number of liberating acts that characterized the movements of Black people in the South from 1783 to 1829. During the American Revolution, 80,000 to 100,000 such enslaved Africans threw off their yokes and escaped their bondage. Subsequently, large numbers embarked on British ships as part of the Loyalist exodus from the United States, while others fled to the deep South, to Native lands, to the North, or held their ground right where they were, attempting, as maroons, to establish themselves and survive as free persons. While recent historical scholarship has identified many of the primary sources and themes that characterize such massive levels of proactivity, few have tried to present them as a synthetic whole. This applies to maps used to illustrate the African American history of those regions and times as well. Illustrating these movements defines the scope of this scholarly work entitled Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829. This work also critically looks at several contemporary maps of this period published in authoritative atlases or textbooks and subsequently creates three original maps to represent the proactive movements and relationships of Africans during this period.
Temple University – Theses
Advisors/Committee Members: Thompson, Heather Ann, Wonkeryor, Edward Lama, Jenkins, Wilbert L., Carr, Greg (Greg E.).
Subjects/Keywords: African American studies; History; African American History; African American History Maps; Black Resoponses to Haitian Revolution; Blacks in American Revolution; Early American History; Slave Resistance
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Watts, R. (. (2011). Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829. (Doctoral Dissertation). Temple University. Retrieved from http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,212646
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Watts, Robert (Daud). “Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,212646.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Watts, Robert (Daud). “Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829.” 2011. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Watts R(. Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Temple University; 2011. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,212646.
Council of Science Editors:
Watts R(. Rethinking Our Outlines/ Redrawing Our Maps: Representing African Agency in the Antebellum South 1783-1829. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Temple University; 2011. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,212646
University of Pennsylvania
2.
Stapely, Emma Tiril.
Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution, 1770-1820.
Degree: 2015, University of Pennsylvania
URL: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2035
► Insurgent Remains disturbs the identification of the American Revolution with U.S. national beginnings by tracing it through its literary aftereffects in the period with which…
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▼ Insurgent Remains disturbs the identification of the American Revolution with U.S. national beginnings by tracing it through its literary aftereffects in the period with which it is identified, 1770-1820. While the American Revolution is thought to have concluded with the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the “birth of the United States, Insurgent Remains reads texts produced in the decades following the peace for delineations of ongoing Revolutionary experiences characterized by loss and constraint that demand creative, collective responses without guarantee. In chapters organized around the re-use and re-circulation of “old” forms and formats—allegory, anthology, tragedy, and petition—I propose that the liminal affective states in the texts I examine are sites of insurgent potential in their own right whose politics are inscrutable when the Revolution is conceived as an oppositional conflict of sides whose descriptive vocabulary reduces to a binary formula (American/British, Loyalist/Patriot). Instead, they become legible as “remains”: pending works of grief, yearning, need, and love that offer vibrant possibilities for collective action and ethical commitment obscured by teleologies of national consolidation. Eschewing preconceived identitarian and partisan markers through which Revolutionary history has conventionally been organized, my approach stresses the roles of literary forms in mediating traumatic experiences of Revolutionary history that may otherwise elude representation. I argue that the itineraries along which these forms travel open up new ways of thinking about the cultural politics of the period and the politics of revolution itself. This project thus seeks to enrich our understanding of the Revolutionary period by expanding the narrow field in which politics seem to operate, attending to modes of historical experience debarred from political consideration by traditional Revolutionary histories bound to binary narratives of conflict and progress.
Subjects/Keywords: American Revolution; Civil War; Politics; Rebellion; American Literature; American Studies; Literature in English, North America
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Stapely, E. T. (2015). Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution, 1770-1820. (Thesis). University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2035
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Stapely, Emma Tiril. “Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution, 1770-1820.” 2015. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2035.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Stapely, Emma Tiril. “Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution, 1770-1820.” 2015. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Stapely ET. Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution, 1770-1820. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2015. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2035.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Stapely ET. Insurgent Remains: Afterlives of the American Revolution, 1770-1820. [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2015. Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/2035
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Cambridge
3.
Bell-Romero, Nicolas.
The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87.
Degree: PhD, 2020, University of Cambridge
URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/309312
► This study considers the politics of epithets from the start of the imperial crisis in 1763 until the Constitutional Convention in 1787. More than mere…
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▼ This study considers the politics of epithets from the start of the imperial crisis in 1763 until the Constitutional Convention in 1787. More than mere insults, epithets were defined in this period as appellations or titles and were used to describe a person’s qualities or attributes. Despite the importance of these identity terms as the ideals that people most valued in their neighbours, early Americanists do not centre epithets. Historians focus on individual terms – “whig,” “American,” and “republican” – but these labels have not been brought together into a conceptual history of epithets. When these terms are examined together, this thesis argues that the partisans, the opponents of British rule, invented many of the words to discuss who they were, build bonds of belonging amongst their supporters, and identify their internal and external enemies in the Revolutionary period. In attempting to form a sense of themselves and others in the midst of such a divisive event, the partisans transformed the terms of their British colonial past, labels that emerged over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the colonists started to envision themselves as distinctive but equal to Britain, and reformed them into epithets that they used to demonstrate the virtues of the United States of America, and determine the ideals that inhabitants were meant to live by in a new nation. This process was far from uncontested though. Rather than emerging separately, the partisans developed their epithets in conversation and opposition to several rival terms that emerged in a war over words with their enemies, including Britons in the metropole, a significant number of native peoples in the Ohio river valley, and persons disaffected to the cause in Virginia. Since the partisans invented these terms in such a conflicted environment, they argued that only those people who showed merit were worthy of using epithets. The politics of epithets was the politics of merit. Since merit was a contested concept, America and Britain’s inhabitants struggled over who merited epithets and constantly changed the guidelines over who deserved to use these terms. This contest over words had Janus-faced outcomes. It allowed the “people out of doors,” including poorer whites, women, and black persons, to claim rights and belonging as meritorious “citizens.” Yet the political elites, those “within doors,” who were instrumental in manufacturing these fighting words, ensured that only the chosen few, especially white men, could call themselves “Americans.” The origins of much social inequality, over who had the same status, in the early United States was therefore partly born from a seemingly egalitarian ideal: a society where epithets were only given to those who deserved them.
Subjects/Keywords: American History; American Revolution
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Bell-Romero, N. (2020). The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/309312
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bell-Romero, Nicolas. “The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/309312.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bell-Romero, Nicolas. “The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87.” 2020. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Bell-Romero N. The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/309312.
Council of Science Editors:
Bell-Romero N. The Politics of Epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/309312
University of Cambridge
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Bell-Romero, Nicolas.
The politics of epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87.
Degree: PhD, 2020, University of Cambridge
URL: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56410
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.814546
► This study considers the politics of epithets from the start of the imperial crisis in 1763 until the Constitutional Convention in 1787. More than mere…
(more)
▼ This study considers the politics of epithets from the start of the imperial crisis in 1763 until the Constitutional Convention in 1787. More than mere insults, epithets were defined in this period as appellations or titles and were used to describe a person’s qualities or attributes. Despite the importance of these identity terms as the ideals that people most valued in their neighbours, early Americanists do not centre epithets. Historians focus on individual terms – “whig,” “American,” and “republican” – but these labels have not been brought together into a conceptual history of epithets. When these terms are examined together, this thesis argues that the partisans, the opponents of British rule, invented many of the words to discuss who they were, build bonds of belonging amongst their supporters, and identify their internal and external enemies in the Revolutionary period. In attempting to form a sense of themselves and others in the midst of such a divisive event, the partisans transformed the terms of their British colonial past, labels that emerged over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the colonists started to envision themselves as distinctive but equal to Britain, and reformed them into epithets that they used to demonstrate the virtues of the United States of America, and determine the ideals that inhabitants were meant to live by in a new nation. This process was far from uncontested though. Rather than emerging separately, the partisans developed their epithets in conversation and opposition to several rival terms that emerged in a war over words with their enemies, including Britons in the metropole, a significant number of native peoples in the Ohio river valley, and persons disaffected to the cause in Virginia. Since the partisans invented these terms in such a conflicted environment, they argued that only those people who showed merit were worthy of using epithets. The politics of epithets was the politics of merit. Since merit was a contested concept, America and Britain’s inhabitants struggled over who merited epithets and constantly changed the guidelines over who deserved to use these terms. This contest over words had Janus-faced outcomes. It allowed the “people out of doors,” including poorer whites, women, and black persons, to claim rights and belonging as meritorious “citizens.” Yet the political elites, those “within doors,” who were instrumental in manufacturing these fighting words, ensured that only the chosen few, especially white men, could call themselves “Americans.” The origins of much social inequality, over who had the same status, in the early United States was therefore partly born from a seemingly egalitarian ideal: a society where epithets were only given to those who deserved them.
Subjects/Keywords: American History; American Revolution
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Bell-Romero, N. (2020). The politics of epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56410 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.814546
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bell-Romero, Nicolas. “The politics of epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56410 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.814546.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bell-Romero, Nicolas. “The politics of epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87.” 2020. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Bell-Romero N. The politics of epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56410 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.814546.
Council of Science Editors:
Bell-Romero N. The politics of epithets in the American Revolution, 1763-87. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56410 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.814546
Princeton University
5.
Coghlan, J. Michelle.
Revolution's Afterlife: The Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933
.
Degree: PhD, 2011, Princeton University
URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp012j62s487v
► Revolution's Afterlife: the Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933 Revolution's Afterlife traces the uncanny persistence of the Paris Commune – as specter and spectacle – in…
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▼ Revolution's Afterlife: the Paris Commune in
American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933
Revolution's Afterlife traces the uncanny persistence of the Paris Commune – as specter and spectacle – in the U.S. literary and cultural imaginary from the Gilded Age into the Modernist period. Despite, or perhaps because of, the spectacularly transnational traumas of the twentieth century, scholars and theorists have most often regarded cultural memory as a phenomenon of distinctly national (or intra-national) proportions, an ongoing cultural process of remembering or forgetting a nation's own past triumphs or crises. In turn, both the "culture of memory" and the critical turn to memory studies itself have been figured as distinctive to – or symptomatic of – our own historical moment. By contrast, my project uncovers the thoroughly international contours of
American cultural memory in the nineteenth century. Recovering the ways Americans represented and consumed the
revolution of 1871 across a variety of literary forms and mass-cultural mediums, from illustrated weeklies and touring panoramas to periodical poetry and the novels of Henry James, I argue that the Commune's
American afterlife fundamentally shaped anxieties about the New Woman and burgeoning imperial ambitions in the U.S. even as it transformed the terrain of Paris – and what it meant to be an
American there – in
American memory.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gleason, William A (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: 19th-Century American Literature;
Gender studies;
Memory studies;
Paris in American literature;
Revolution in literature;
Spatial studies
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Coghlan, J. M. (2011). Revolution's Afterlife: The Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933
. (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp012j62s487v
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Coghlan, J Michelle. “Revolution's Afterlife: The Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933
.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp012j62s487v.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Coghlan, J Michelle. “Revolution's Afterlife: The Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933
.” 2011. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Coghlan JM. Revolution's Afterlife: The Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2011. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp012j62s487v.
Council of Science Editors:
Coghlan JM. Revolution's Afterlife: The Paris Commune in American Cultural Memory, 1871-1933
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2011. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp012j62s487v
Michigan State University
6.
Braddox, Tonya S.
Revisiting our history : Black-Asian tropes in African American literature and culture 1980s to the present.
Degree: 2016, Michigan State University
URL: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:4155
► Thesis Ph. D. Michigan State University. English 2016.
This dissertation establishes a space to explore Black-Asian tropes in African American literature written since the 1980s.…
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▼ Thesis Ph. D. Michigan State University. English 2016.
This dissertation establishes a space to explore Black-Asian tropes in African American literature written since the 1980s. I examine African American literary works that feature Black-Asian relations, encounters, and alliances. I argue that a distinct kind of discourse is occurring when African American literature feature Black-Asian tropes; it is a discussion that decenters and has the potential to disrupt common debates of Black-White readings of American literature, in general. I start my analysis with the 1980s because I am interested in AfroAsian motifs in Contemporary African American literature. In 1984, Velina Hasu Houston’s drama, American Dreams, was performed on a off-Broadway stage by the Negro Ensemble Company, and featured an African American-Japanese couple coming home to the husband’s non-receptive relatives in Harlem, New York. In 1988, Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites was published and depicted a Black-Chinese half-human, half-alien being trying to understand his alterity. In 1993, Ishmael Reed’s Japanese By Spring was published and illustrated how an African American college professor attempts to politically align himself with a Japanese college president in the hopes of obtaining tenure at a predominantly White college. In the 2000s, Jacqueline A. Sue’s Cornbread and Dim Sum: A Heart Glow Romance (2004) and Angela Weaver’s No Ordinary Love (2009) featured romantic relationships between African American women and Chinese men. The core of my analysis is to interpret the shared experiences between African Americans and two Asian American groups, Japanese and Chinese. Each author’s literary imagination seeks to call into existence a Black-Asian presence. History, law, and some social science help explain the relationships represented in each text. In each chapter, I discuss forgotten histories, such as the impact of Japanese and Chinese emigrants on the American labor force of the 1800s; the relocation of American soldiers to Kansas due to segregation laws in other parts of the United States during the 1950s; African American supporters of the Pro-Japan movements in the 1930s; and the effect of American racial laws on interracial couples prior to the US Supreme Court ruling on Loving vs. Virginia of 1967. These historical references are included in literature across genres, including drama, science fiction, satire, and romance, and cover topics on colorism, multiethnic identity, and interracial relationships. Furthermore, in this study, I attempt to address a popular cultural term, Blasian, that encapsulates contemporary experiences of African and Asian Americans in the United States. By the end of the dissertation, I define and discuss what Blasian Narratives are and create a literary and cultural niche for exploring more Blasian experiences.
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Advisors/Committee Members: O'Donnell, Patrick, Michaelsen, Scott, Williamson, Terrion, Smitherman, Geneva, Dagbovie, Pero.
Subjects/Keywords: American literature – African American authors – Themes, motives; Blacks – Relations with Asians – Themes, motives; Blacks – Relations with Asians – Fiction; Race in literature; Figures of speech; American literature; African American studies; Asian American studies
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Braddox, T. S. (2016). Revisiting our history : Black-Asian tropes in African American literature and culture 1980s to the present. (Thesis). Michigan State University. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:4155
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Braddox, Tonya S. “Revisiting our history : Black-Asian tropes in African American literature and culture 1980s to the present.” 2016. Thesis, Michigan State University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:4155.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Braddox, Tonya S. “Revisiting our history : Black-Asian tropes in African American literature and culture 1980s to the present.” 2016. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Braddox TS. Revisiting our history : Black-Asian tropes in African American literature and culture 1980s to the present. [Internet] [Thesis]. Michigan State University; 2016. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:4155.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Braddox TS. Revisiting our history : Black-Asian tropes in African American literature and culture 1980s to the present. [Thesis]. Michigan State University; 2016. Available from: http://etd.lib.msu.edu/islandora/object/etd:4155
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
East Carolina University
7.
Melendez, Celeste Rorem.
Soul Folk, Unzipped : The Intersection of Black Studies and Contemporary Erotica.
Degree: MA, English, 2013, East Carolina University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4249
► This thesis explores the ways in which select pieces of contemporary Black erotic literature may be used to gain a deeper understanding of the role…
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▼ This thesis explores the ways in which select pieces of contemporary Black erotic literature may be used to gain a deeper understanding of the role of sexuality and intimacy within Black communities around the world. The best selections of well-written erotica celebrate not only the inherent beauty of the human body, but also the joy of lovemaking and even life itself - an indulgence historically denied many Black communities throughout the world, whose literati may have felt pressured to retain a certain textual austerity in order to combat generations of pervasive stereotypes of Black individuals as violent, hyperlibidinous, or animalistic, particularly in regions impacted by colonialism. Yet sensuality and sexuality have been prominent themes throughout much of Black artistic culture, serving as the heartfelt undercurrents in many forms of music and art. This thesis aims to review the way that the written word goes one step further to create an innovative space for the assertion of styles of intimate expression, forms of beauty, and even sociopolitical resistance which are unique to individuals of African descent and clearly worthy of fresh consideration. Â
Advisors/Committee Members: Taylor, Richard C., 1956- (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Literature; African American studies; African American erotica; Black erotica; Erotica; Erotic literature – Black authors; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature; Blacks in literature
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Melendez, C. R. (2013). Soul Folk, Unzipped : The Intersection of Black Studies and Contemporary Erotica. (Masters Thesis). East Carolina University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4249
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Melendez, Celeste Rorem. “Soul Folk, Unzipped : The Intersection of Black Studies and Contemporary Erotica.” 2013. Masters Thesis, East Carolina University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4249.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Melendez, Celeste Rorem. “Soul Folk, Unzipped : The Intersection of Black Studies and Contemporary Erotica.” 2013. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Melendez CR. Soul Folk, Unzipped : The Intersection of Black Studies and Contemporary Erotica. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. East Carolina University; 2013. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4249.
Council of Science Editors:
Melendez CR. Soul Folk, Unzipped : The Intersection of Black Studies and Contemporary Erotica. [Masters Thesis]. East Carolina University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4249
University of Michigan
8.
Cronin, John Benjamin.
The Enduring Commons: Ecology, Politics, and Economic Life in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1691 - 1815.
Degree: PhD, History, 2016, University of Michigan
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133224
► This dissertation examines the historical development of Plymouth County, Massachusetts during the period 1691-1815, using ecology, politics, and economic life as lenses. Utilizing the local…
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▼ This dissertation examines the historical development of Plymouth County, Massachusetts during the period 1691-1815, using ecology, politics, and economic life as lenses. Utilizing the local records of three towns – Duxbury, Pembroke, and Wareham – it argues that, after the initial conquest of the Wampanoag and the Massachusett, the Anglo-
American settlers of the county, in the years between the late 17th and the early 19th centuries, created and maintained an enduring commons regime after English patterns, embracing water, woods, fields, and more. This was part and parcel of a more or less “traditional” economy. Of particular importance were the runs of anadromous fish that swam up the county’s rivers each spring to spawn. These fish, in the herring family, served as a significant source of food in the late winter and spring, as well as the most visible manifestation of the continuity of the county’s commons regime. Taken as a whole, these commons constituted a counterpoint to emerging forces of nascent market capitalism. Nevertheless, by the end of the period of this study, in the years surrounding the War of 1812, Plymouth County was moving, recognizably but not fully, towards capitalist transformation, with a boom in shipbuilding and the construction of textile and other factories. Still, the commons persisted alongside them. In addition to ecological and economic changes, politics played an important role, as the towns of the county underwent war, political
revolution, and the transition from monarchy to a republic, at the same time maintaining long-established structures of local government and participating in increasingly contested elections and the First Party System. Ultimately, this dissertation seeks to engage – in the tradition of E.P. Thompson, Charles Sellers, and others – in a long-standing historiographical debate about the origins of capitalism, both in New England and early America, and the greater Atlantic World.
Advisors/Committee Members: Thornton(iii), J Mills (committee member), Agrawal, Arun (committee member), Vinovskis, Maris A (committee member), Deloria, Philip J (committee member), Hershock, Martin John (committee member), Witgen, Michael (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Plymouth County, Massachusetts; Commons; Anadromous Fishery; The transition to capitalism in the American countryside; Ecology; American Revolution; History (General); Humanities
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Cronin, J. B. (2016). The Enduring Commons: Ecology, Politics, and Economic Life in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1691 - 1815. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133224
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cronin, John Benjamin. “The Enduring Commons: Ecology, Politics, and Economic Life in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1691 - 1815.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133224.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cronin, John Benjamin. “The Enduring Commons: Ecology, Politics, and Economic Life in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1691 - 1815.” 2016. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Cronin JB. The Enduring Commons: Ecology, Politics, and Economic Life in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1691 - 1815. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133224.
Council of Science Editors:
Cronin JB. The Enduring Commons: Ecology, Politics, and Economic Life in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1691 - 1815. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133224
Boston University
9.
Hynes, Rosemary.
The mask of liberty: the making of freeholder democracy in revolutionary Georgia.
Degree: PhD, History, 2014, Boston University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15366
► The Mask of Liberty: The Making of Freeholder Democracy in Revolutionary Georgia examines the structures and practices of government in Revolutionary Georgia from the 1750s…
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▼ The Mask of Liberty: The Making of Freeholder Democracy in Revolutionary Georgia examines the structures and practices of government in Revolutionary Georgia from the 1750s to ratification of the federal constitution in 1788. Based on evidence compiled from land, probate, legislative, and executive records supplemented by loyalist claims, newspapers, manuscript, shipping, and grand jury records, this dissertation presents a view of the American Revolution in Georgia that reorients previous studies.
This study argues that Georgia's American Revolution belonged to non-elite white male freeholders, fiercely committed to local control and autonomy. After Independence, they fashioned a political system that vested real power in small counties and starkly limited the reach of the state's executive and judicial branches. Georgians based their government on a mix of ideas current in Revolutionary America, the utility of which they measured against the state's distinctive history. This study relates that history to the political structures and practices that grew out of it.
The American Revolution in Georgia was not a revolution of the dispossessed, of women, of slaves, or of property-less white men. It was fashioned by ambitious, self-interested men, most of whom migrated to Georgia in the decades immediately before or immediately after independence to take advantage of liberal land policies, a growing commercial environment and unusual opportunities to establish themselves, provide for families, and participate in self-government. Late eighteenth century Georgia was, at least for a time, the best freeholders' country, a land where white men could gain a freehold and enjoy a measure of political equality unknown to their fathers and grandfathers. That was the radicalism of Georgia's American Revolution, a radicalism born of the state's distinctive history of late settlement, destructive warfare, and engagement with great political debates of the age.
Subjects/Keywords: History; American Revolution; Georgia history
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Hynes, R. (2014). The mask of liberty: the making of freeholder democracy in revolutionary Georgia. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15366
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hynes, Rosemary. “The mask of liberty: the making of freeholder democracy in revolutionary Georgia.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15366.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hynes, Rosemary. “The mask of liberty: the making of freeholder democracy in revolutionary Georgia.” 2014. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Hynes R. The mask of liberty: the making of freeholder democracy in revolutionary Georgia. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston University; 2014. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15366.
Council of Science Editors:
Hynes R. The mask of liberty: the making of freeholder democracy in revolutionary Georgia. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/15366
Northeastern University
10.
Williamson, Matthew H.
The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis.
Degree: PhD, Department of History, 2017, Northeastern University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413
► Studies of American revolutionaries often focus on their ideologies and politics, and while this approach is quite useful, the actions of this cohort can also…
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▼ Studies of American revolutionaries often focus on their ideologies and politics, and while this approach is quite useful, the actions of this cohort can also be understood in terms of social networks. Recent works on the founding fathers, while employing the literature of social history, are still biographies that make men the center of the narrative and often ignore larger social trends. An important figure among revolutions, John Jay, provides an opportunity to look beyond biography and instead focus on the networks in which he was engaged. This approach allows for a more expansive view of how individuals and events together shape history. This project also examines the transatlantic realities of the American Revolution, and the founding of the United States.; I argue that Jay understood the value of these networks, and used them to his advantage. This dissertation reconstructs the social networks of John Jay from his graduation from King's College in 1764 to his retirement from politics in 1801. I use formal network analysis and visualization tools to create network models, specifically egocentric networks, in order to understand the web of relationships that defined Jay's world and influenced history. The formal investigation of Jay's networks offers an opportunity to examine his manipulation of those networks.; Many of the benefits of applying social network analysis were not unexpected. People and groups that had previously been marginalized or trivialized were highlighted as integral to Jay. This work sheds light on the significance of these individuals who influenced Jay throughout his career. Another important result of this approach revealed that no singular individual was responsible for writings, ideas, and events. Using network theory, it became clear that the instructions that Alexander Hamilton gave to Jay for this peace mission were, in fact, created by a number of Federalists in private discussions before the meeting. Network theory also helped to clarify Jay's agency in the negotiations themselves.; Several limitations of applying network analysis to historical study were revealed in this research. The datasets are large and require an extensive amount of investigation. Applying network data analysis to historical research challenges the writer to integrate both into a coherent understanding of the impact of relationships and events. This approach is fairly non-traditional among academics, but the practice of integrating social network analysis into historical study is a worthy pursuit.
Subjects/Keywords: American Revolution; social network analysis
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Williamson, M. H. (2017). The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis. (Doctoral Dissertation). Northeastern University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Williamson, Matthew H. “The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Northeastern University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Williamson, Matthew H. “The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis.” 2017. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Williamson MH. The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Northeastern University; 2017. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413.
Council of Science Editors:
Williamson MH. The networks of John Jay, 1745-1801: a historical network analysis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Northeastern University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20240413
Princeton University
11.
Carter, Katlyn Marie.
Practicing Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Publicity, and the Making of Modern Democracy
.
Degree: PhD, 2017, Princeton University
URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cr56n365h
► This dissertation argues that debates about secrecy in government both reflected and shaped underlying contests over the meaning of representative politics during the American and…
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▼ This dissertation argues that debates about secrecy in government both reflected and shaped underlying contests over the meaning of representative politics during the
American and French Revolutions. Though we tend now to associate representative democracy with transparency, secrecy was essential to its establishment in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. When revolutions broke out in the Atlantic World, state secrecy was widely associated with despotic excess in both British America and France. The first half of the dissertation uncovers this mounting concern with state secrecy, the valorization of publicity, and related calls for the subjection of representatives to the dictates of their constituents. The dissertation then dissects debates that ensued in the 1790s in order to identify the essential role procedural decisions about secrecy and publicity played in determining the stability and character of representative politics. While the nature of representative government in these revolutions is a vast
subject, the history of state secrecy, political publicity, and popular vigilance involves a much more circumscribed source base. The dissertation focuses on practices and discourses where a direct comparison between the United States and France is possible, to explain how theories of political representation were both cemented and contested in practice. As they drafted the
American Constitution, for example, the framers worked behind closed doors under oath of secrecy; in France, the deputies of the Third Estate welcomed onlookers into their chamber as they began their deliberations. These types of decisions were crucial to determining what political representation looked like in practice and how it was legitimated.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bell, David A (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: American Revolution;
French Revolution;
Politics;
Publicity;
Revolution;
State Secrecy
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Carter, K. M. (2017). Practicing Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Publicity, and the Making of Modern Democracy
. (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cr56n365h
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Carter, Katlyn Marie. “Practicing Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Publicity, and the Making of Modern Democracy
.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cr56n365h.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Carter, Katlyn Marie. “Practicing Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Publicity, and the Making of Modern Democracy
.” 2017. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Carter KM. Practicing Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Publicity, and the Making of Modern Democracy
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2017. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cr56n365h.
Council of Science Editors:
Carter KM. Practicing Politics in the Revolutionary Atlantic World: Secrecy, Publicity, and the Making of Modern Democracy
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2017. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cr56n365h
12.
Viaud, Karina M.
Pursuing the Doctoral Degree: A Symbolic Interpretation of First-Generation
African American/Black and Hispanic Doctoral Students
.
Degree: 2014, California State University – San Marcos
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/121218
► There is a national concern for the successful completion of the doctoral degree in graduate programs that needs attention because approximately half of doctoral students…
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▼ There is a national concern for the successful completion of the doctoral degree in graduate programs that needs attention because approximately half of doctoral students earn the degree and the other half of doctoral students do not attain the degree. Furthermore, the completion rate for a doctoral degree is much lower for African Americans/
Blacks and Hispanics whom are largely represented as first-generation. First-generation African Americans/
Blacks and Hispanics have been reported as less likely to pursue a doctoral degree, and their experiences in the doctoral program have been less documented. The literature review reviews characteristics of recipients and non-recipients of the doctoral degree, enrollment status in graduate school, and experiences of those enrollees. Seen in this light, first-generation African Americans/
Blacks and Hispanics???documented as less likely to enroll in graduate school and even less likely to be recipients of the doctoral degree???are viewed as being disadvantaged by virtue of the characteristics they hold upon entering the program, which influences the doctoral experience. However, this dissertation set forth to view this population???s experience influenced by specific interactions emphasizing their racial/ethnic and first-generation identities. The theories of symbolic interactionism, resilience and practice assisted in conceptualizing the participants??? doctoral experiences. The study was a qualitative narrative inquiry in which experiences turned into stories were told by four first-generation African Americans/
Blacks and Hispanics pursuing their doctoral degree in Education. As seen through their eyes, participants interpreted their experiences from a symbolic interactionism perspective related to the interrelationships between their own behavior and the educational environment. In other words, participants analyzed how interactions that occurred in a particular place and time shaped their experience as first-generation doctoral students of color. The author???s interest was not to compare African Americans/
Blacks with Hispanics in pursuit of the doctoral degree. Rather, the interest rested with getting to know shared and divergent experiences among the participants to understand their journey in pursuit of the doctoral degree.
Advisors/Committee Members: Prado-Olmos, Patricia (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: African American;
Blacks;
Hispanics;
doctoral;
higher education
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Viaud, K. M. (2014). Pursuing the Doctoral Degree: A Symbolic Interpretation of First-Generation
African American/Black and Hispanic Doctoral Students
. (Thesis). California State University – San Marcos. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/121218
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Viaud, Karina M. “Pursuing the Doctoral Degree: A Symbolic Interpretation of First-Generation
African American/Black and Hispanic Doctoral Students
.” 2014. Thesis, California State University – San Marcos. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/121218.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Viaud, Karina M. “Pursuing the Doctoral Degree: A Symbolic Interpretation of First-Generation
African American/Black and Hispanic Doctoral Students
.” 2014. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Viaud KM. Pursuing the Doctoral Degree: A Symbolic Interpretation of First-Generation
African American/Black and Hispanic Doctoral Students
. [Internet] [Thesis]. California State University – San Marcos; 2014. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/121218.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Viaud KM. Pursuing the Doctoral Degree: A Symbolic Interpretation of First-Generation
African American/Black and Hispanic Doctoral Students
. [Thesis]. California State University – San Marcos; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/121218
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Washington
13.
Jenkins, Artis DuShawn.
A People’s History of the Hilltop Private lives made Public.
Degree: 2015, University of Washington
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33513
► Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood has a history. A rich and colorful history made significant by the residents who have lived there and made vast contributions to…
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▼ Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood has a history. A rich and colorful history made significant by the residents who have lived there and made vast contributions to that greater community. Yet of that documented past, the stories of Black Americans are missing. From the very beginning my thesis project has been investigating Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood and the history of its Black residents. What my Master’s Thesis accomplishes is adding Private lives of Black Americans to the Public history of the Hilltop. My research examines the Hilltop beginning post-World War II to the present, from the perspective of key informants in conjunction with archival material. This adds a new viewpoint concerning the history of the neighborhood, by including Black residents, along with their knowledge of the social, economic, and political events that have helped shape the neighborhood. At the same time, I contribute to a deeper understanding of the Black experience in this historic neighborhood.
Advisors/Committee Members: Knopp, Lawrence M (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Black Americans; Blacks in Washington State; Hilltop; Oral History; Personal narratives; Tacoma; African American studies; Black studies; American studies; interdisciplinary arts and sciences - tacoma
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Jenkins, A. D. (2015). A People’s History of the Hilltop Private lives made Public. (Thesis). University of Washington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33513
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jenkins, Artis DuShawn. “A People’s History of the Hilltop Private lives made Public.” 2015. Thesis, University of Washington. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33513.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jenkins, Artis DuShawn. “A People’s History of the Hilltop Private lives made Public.” 2015. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Jenkins AD. A People’s History of the Hilltop Private lives made Public. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Washington; 2015. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33513.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Jenkins AD. A People’s History of the Hilltop Private lives made Public. [Thesis]. University of Washington; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1773/33513
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Virginia Commonwealth University
14.
Edwards, Ana F.
Robert Cowley: Living Free During Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia.
Degree: MA, History, 2020, Virginia Commonwealth University
URL: https://doi.org/10.25772/3G1H-F150
;
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6362
► This thesis examines the life of Robert Cowley, a formerly enslaved man living free during slavery in eighteenth-century Richmond, Virginia. The first chapter examines…
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▼ This thesis examines the life of Robert Cowley, a formerly enslaved man living free during slavery in eighteenth-century Richmond, Virginia. The first chapter examines Cowley’s enslaved life through the records of others. The data collectors and historians of early America did not intend to capture the truth of Black people’s
American experiences, except as defined their enslavement – people in service to the wealth-building capacity of the nation. Yet the lives of Black people who lived in proximity to prominent whites can be glimpsed in a variety of records and writings from account books to deeds, from private letters to newspaper advertisements. Cowley did not begin to appear in the archival record with any regularity until after he became free in 1785. Relatively rich, if impersonal, the information in the documents gives the reader little sense of Cowley’s motivations and decision-making processes. Having to cast a wider net to retrieve what might exist revealed the racism inherent in the archives as much as it helped convey the structural conditions in which a free Black person like Cowley would have to live. This section is the biography of Cowley’s free life from manumission to the moment when he could have lost it all – implication in Gabriel’s Rebellion. The third section situates his life within those broader dynamics of race, slavery, and the meaning of freedom for free Black people in the post-Revolutionary era, and the archival footprint that reveals a continuation of the cultural violence of white supremacy to the present. Ideas of whiteness and Blackness are examined in relation to
American identity and the law and race relations between free
Blacks and whites after the
American Revolution. Cowley was fortunate in many ways, but was nonetheless forced to navigate a Black life in a white nation founded on slavery, and he wrestled continuously with the realities of coexistence in an unwelcoming world.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Ryan K. Smith, Dr. Nicole Myers Turner, Dr. Michael L. Blakey.
Subjects/Keywords: robert cowley; free blacks in eighteenth century; gabriel's rebellion; richmond; virginia; African American Studies; Other American Studies; Social History; United States History
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Edwards, A. F. (2020). Robert Cowley: Living Free During Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia. (Thesis). Virginia Commonwealth University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.25772/3G1H-F150 ; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6362
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Edwards, Ana F. “Robert Cowley: Living Free During Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia.” 2020. Thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.25772/3G1H-F150 ; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6362.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Edwards, Ana F. “Robert Cowley: Living Free During Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia.” 2020. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Edwards AF. Robert Cowley: Living Free During Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia. [Internet] [Thesis]. Virginia Commonwealth University; 2020. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.25772/3G1H-F150 ; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6362.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Edwards AF. Robert Cowley: Living Free During Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Richmond, Virginia. [Thesis]. Virginia Commonwealth University; 2020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.25772/3G1H-F150 ; https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6362
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Pennsylvania
15.
Soto, Evelyn.
Beyond The Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries In The U.s., 1800-1855.
Degree: 2019, University of Pennsylvania
URL: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3565
► This dissertation argues that revisions of the “Black Legend”—a set of Anglophone dogmas about Spanish tyranny and racial degeneracy—conditioned the terms for both political conflict…
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▼ This dissertation argues that revisions of the “Black Legend”—a set of Anglophone dogmas about Spanish tyranny and racial degeneracy—conditioned the terms for both political conflict and possibility in the nineteenth-century Americas. The project specifically attends to the ideology’s displacement from Spanish imperialism to the independence movements in Spanish America (1808 - 1826), which in turn enthralled the diplomatic imagination of the early United States. With the balance of power newly at stake in the hemisphere, Anglo-Americans relied on the Black Legend to encode the emergent polities in Spanish America with longstanding representations of the inhabitants’ political illegitimacy, sociopolitical dysfunction, and non-binary “casta” system of racial relations. I trace this language of sociopolitical taint not only in discourses of U.S. expansionism, but more importantly in instances of non-statist, transamerican political innovation. The project juxtaposes canonical, nineteenth-century U.S. literature and non-traditional texts by Spanish Americans, such as diplomatic correspondences, political tracts, subaltern rumors, and propagandist pamphlets. I assemble what I call an early Latinx counter-archive, which re-narrates Spanish America’s benighted sovereignty as an opportunity to envision forms of political community capable of disrupting Anglo-American imperial power.
Subjects/Keywords: Age of Revolution; Colonialism; History of slavery; Latinx Studies; American Literature; Latin American Languages and Societies; Latin American Studies; Literature in English, North America
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Soto, E. (2019). Beyond The Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries In The U.s., 1800-1855. (Thesis). University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3565
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Soto, Evelyn. “Beyond The Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries In The U.s., 1800-1855.” 2019. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3565.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Soto, Evelyn. “Beyond The Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries In The U.s., 1800-1855.” 2019. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Soto E. Beyond The Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries In The U.s., 1800-1855. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2019. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3565.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Soto E. Beyond The Black Legend: Spanish-American Political Imaginaries In The U.s., 1800-1855. [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2019. Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/3565
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Clemson University
16.
Vogt, Roberta.
Short Remarks on the Political and Social Writings of Reverend Anthony Walke of Princess Anne County, Virginia & a Concise & Impartial Account of the Causes of Their Origins & Progress.
Degree: MA, History, 2011, Clemson University
URL: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1238
► The following thesis examines multiple social and political topics in the largely unstudied writings of Reverend Anthony Walke (c. 1755-1814) of Princess Anne County,…
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▼ The following thesis examines multiple social and political topics in the largely unstudied writings of Reverend Anthony Walke (c. 1755-1814) of Princess Anne County, Virginia. His papers reside at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as appearing in Virginia newspapers of the period. Walke's works comprise more than four hundred pages of primary source documents that relate to late eighteenth-century Virginia, and span the period of 1786 through 1805. My research emphasizes his Revolutionary War pamphlet, Remarkable Occurrences during the unhappy
American War, & a concise & impartial Account of the Causes of its Origin & Progress: a Pamphlet, 1786; his essay on slavery, Short Remarks on the Treatment of Negros, 1793; and, his writings on the French
Revolution. This small fraction of his entire body of work contains important reflections on eighteenth-century
American society and the ideological changes with which it was confronted. Central to these changes was the question of slavery and the definition of liberty. Walke's writings reveal the scope of the debates that were occurring during the birth of the
American republic and the demise of the old colonial world that had come before it.
Advisors/Committee Members: Anderson, Paul C., Grubb , Alan C., Jeffries , James B..
Subjects/Keywords: American Revolution; Anthony Walke; French Revolution; Norfolk; slavery; United States History
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Vogt, R. (2011). Short Remarks on the Political and Social Writings of Reverend Anthony Walke of Princess Anne County, Virginia & a Concise & Impartial Account of the Causes of Their Origins & Progress. (Masters Thesis). Clemson University. Retrieved from https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1238
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Vogt, Roberta. “Short Remarks on the Political and Social Writings of Reverend Anthony Walke of Princess Anne County, Virginia & a Concise & Impartial Account of the Causes of Their Origins & Progress.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Clemson University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1238.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Vogt, Roberta. “Short Remarks on the Political and Social Writings of Reverend Anthony Walke of Princess Anne County, Virginia & a Concise & Impartial Account of the Causes of Their Origins & Progress.” 2011. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Vogt R. Short Remarks on the Political and Social Writings of Reverend Anthony Walke of Princess Anne County, Virginia & a Concise & Impartial Account of the Causes of Their Origins & Progress. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Clemson University; 2011. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1238.
Council of Science Editors:
Vogt R. Short Remarks on the Political and Social Writings of Reverend Anthony Walke of Princess Anne County, Virginia & a Concise & Impartial Account of the Causes of Their Origins & Progress. [Masters Thesis]. Clemson University; 2011. Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1238
University of Texas – Austin
17.
Coleman, Megan Catherine.
Revolutionary representations in antebellum periodicals.
Degree: PhD, English, 2016, University of Texas – Austin
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41719
► “Revolutionary Representations in Antebellum Periodicals” examines invocations of the American Revolutionary War in novels serialized during the mid-nineteenth century. E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William…
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▼ “Revolutionary Representations in Antebellum Periodicals” examines invocations of the
American Revolutionary War in novels serialized during the mid-nineteenth century. E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Gilmore Simms, and Herman Melville depicted this foundational conflict and its ideological legacies in periodicals ranging from the antislavery National Era to the sectionalist Southern Literary Gazette, “quality” literary magazines including Putnam’s and the Atlantic Monthly, and the popular women’s and family magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book.
The first two chapters consider novels that address the legacy of the
American Revolution in the antebellum South. Southworth and Stowe portray voluntary manumission as a means for forestalling national dissolution or insurrection in inter-sectional novels published in the National Era. William Gilmore Simms counters their approaches in historical romances that dismiss the imperative of universal emancipation in favor of an assertion of independence from incursive imperial and, subsequently, federal forces. The latter two chapters examine how Melville and Stowe reconciled the narrative aesthetics and demands of biography and romance while complicating the cultural legacies of the
Revolution in fictionalized historical biographies of a northern soldier and minister.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kevorkian, Martin, 1968- (advisor), Lesser, Wayne (committee member), Winship, Michael (committee member), Cohen, Matthew (committee member), Abzug, Robert (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Serial; Periodical; Southworth; Stowe; Simms; Melville; American Revolution; Revolution
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Coleman, M. C. (2016). Revolutionary representations in antebellum periodicals. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41719
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Coleman, Megan Catherine. “Revolutionary representations in antebellum periodicals.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41719.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Coleman, Megan Catherine. “Revolutionary representations in antebellum periodicals.” 2016. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Coleman MC. Revolutionary representations in antebellum periodicals. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2016. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41719.
Council of Science Editors:
Coleman MC. Revolutionary representations in antebellum periodicals. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/41719
Rhodes University
18.
Wilken, Chelsey.
“Womxn like me are made”: politics and poetics in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.
Degree: Faculty of Humanities, English, 2020, Rhodes University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145735
► This thesis utilises an interdisciplinary approach to understand the political significance of the experimental poetics used by Claudia Rankine in Citizen: An American Lyric and…
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▼ This thesis utilises an interdisciplinary approach to understand the political significance of the experimental poetics used by Claudia Rankine in Citizen: An American Lyric and Koleka Putuma in Collective Amnesia. Rankine and Putuma offer contemporary reflections on what it means to occupy marginalised spaces in society. These artists experiment with formal and conventional aspects of literature to explore and create new definitions of what it means to be Black in society. Their works and techniques allow for thinking outside of dominant ideologies of race and posit alternative Black identities that are not found within canonical theory on Blackness. This project reflects on existing theories of Black subjectivity as evident in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks and Aimé Césaire’s Notebook on the Return to My Native Land. While these theorists did not reject the role of Black women in Western civilisation, they should be read as a moment in a series of counter-discourse to the Black Other rather than the finite canon of Black subjectivity. The emergence of Rankine and Putuma’s experimental poetics works to disrupt the conflation of the Black subject with the Black heteronormative male. Using Michelle M. Wright’s Physics of Blackness as its primary theoretical framework, this project advocates alternative and disruptive readings of Blackness that potentially shift Blackness away from its conflation with nationalism, masculinity and heteronormativity. This thesis uses a dialogical approach between political theory and literature which allows for Citizen and Collective Amnesia to be read as acts of resistance to epistemological erasure and as articulations of the politics relevant to the poets’ lived experiences. Both the United States and South Africa have a history of institutionalised racial segregation, which allows Rankine and Putuma to be read in relation to one another. Where the Civil Rights movement and the anti-apartheid struggle were both foregrounded as male-lead liberation movements contemporary social movements includingblacklivesmatter and #feesmustfall have initiated a return to the androcentric philosophies of Malcom X and Steve Biko, for example. As such Rankine and Putuma’s literature and art marks a reclamation of female empowerment and visibility in the face of a political rhetoric that continues to be masculine and nationalist in nature. In the absence of a space where Black female and queer bodies are adequately recognised, the poetry they write creates a space of self-representation and recognition.
Subjects/Keywords: Rankine, Claudia, 1963- Citizen; Putuma, Koleka – Collective amnesia; Blacks – Race identity; Blacks in literature
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Wilken, C. (2020). “Womxn like me are made”: politics and poetics in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. (Thesis). Rhodes University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145735
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wilken, Chelsey. ““Womxn like me are made”: politics and poetics in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.” 2020. Thesis, Rhodes University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145735.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wilken, Chelsey. ““Womxn like me are made”: politics and poetics in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.” 2020. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Wilken C. “Womxn like me are made”: politics and poetics in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. [Internet] [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2020. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145735.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Wilken C. “Womxn like me are made”: politics and poetics in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. [Thesis]. Rhodes University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145735
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Boston University
19.
Ahlin, John Howard.
New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution.
Degree: PhD, History, 1962, Boston University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27970
► This study describes and interprets the American Revolution in the region of eastern Sagadhoc, now eastern Maine. Attention is concentrated on the sequence of events…
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▼ This study describes and interprets the American Revolution in the region of eastern Sagadhoc, now eastern Maine. Attention is concentrated on the sequence of events in this area and their relationship with activities in the remainder of New England and in contiguous Nova Scotia all within the wider setting of the American Revolution. How, and why the insurgents of this section entered and maintained a struggle that continued years beyond their first expectation is the story that unfolds.
A wilderness region of large lakes and swift rivers, Sagadhoc's rock-bound coast was remote; in 1775 none of the scattered settlements from the Penobscot River to the St. Croix had been in existence fifteen years. Legally its settlers, approximately four thousand in number, were squatters, some possessing conditional township grants from the Massachusetts General Court, but none with titles finally confirmed by the Crown. Disdaining the security of life in more populated sections, these newcomers were ambitious individuals, some with sound reputations and others ranging downward in type to debtors and criminals. These pioneers disliked restraint: regulation by the Crown or Massachusetts Bay and even rule at home, was abhorrent to each individual so far as it inhibited his own interests. The region's growing emphasis upon lumbering and fishing ties their lot to the prosperity of the exchange economy of the colonies. Their adverse trading position with respect to Massachusetts Bay caused hardship and discontent. Anti-British sentiment found receptive ground here, and the poineers therewith transferred their dissatisfaction to the greatest distant power they knew - the Crown [TRUNCATED]
Subjects/Keywords: American Revolution; Maine
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Ahlin, J. H. (1962). New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27970
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ahlin, John Howard. “New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution.” 1962. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27970.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ahlin, John Howard. “New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution.” 1962. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Ahlin JH. New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston University; 1962. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27970.
Council of Science Editors:
Ahlin JH. New England Rubicon: a study of eastern Maine during the American Revolution. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston University; 1962. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27970
University of Notre Dame
20.
Christopher J. Flanagan.
Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution,
1774-1795</h1>.
Degree: History, 2019, University of Notre Dame
URL: https://curate.nd.edu/show/th83kw55x3d
► In Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution, 1774-1795, I analyze the political thought of the American elite during the collapse of British…
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▼ In Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the
American Revolution, 1774-1795, I analyze the political thought of
the
American elite during the collapse of British rule in North
America and the formation of the United States, to better
understand the centrality of empire to the
American Revolution. I
argue that
American state-building was shaped by specific political
debates of the period, fought within the intellectual constraints
of empire, and forced to reconcile empire with republican
government. The compromises that resulted from these debates,
though unexpected, ended up making the
American empire stronger. I
argue that
American leaders laid the groundwork to the United
States’ subsequent rise to world power at the very beginning of the
country’s independent existence, carrying over imperial dreams and
ambitions from its colonial past. Empire Remade
begins with the imperial crisis of the 1770’s, as colonial elites
attempted to reshape the British Empire from within through a range
of policies, from petitions through to military resistance,
culminating in the invasion of the neighboring province of Quebec
to leverage imperial redress. Only when this failed did Americans
embrace independence. The second, central part of the project
explores how the debates surrounding the ratification of the
Constitution gave a forum for a union-wide interrogation of the
nature of the US’ nascent republican empire. Shifting concepts of
empire allowed
American leaders to combine power and liberty in a
way that allowed imperial expansion alongside free
government. Out of these debates, Americans
forged a popular empire, which they then sought to manifest on the
North
American continent. Yet empire on the ground presented a new
set of challenges, complicated by the empire’s very republican
nature. US military and civil leaders debated how to balance the
interests and power of the settler societies and native communities
of the trans-Appalachian West. From another unhappy compromise
between these groups’ demands came a form of imperial management,
ensuring settler assimilation while temporarily accepting Native
difference, that allowed for the United States’ unprecedented
expansion through the nineteenth century.
Advisors/Committee Members: Patrick N. Griffin, Research Director, Jon Coleman, Committee Member, John Deak, Committee Member, Rebecca McKenna, Committee Member.
Subjects/Keywords: American Revolution; British Empire; Early
America
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Flanagan, C. J. (2019). Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution,
1774-1795</h1>. (Thesis). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved from https://curate.nd.edu/show/th83kw55x3d
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Flanagan, Christopher J.. “Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution,
1774-1795</h1>.” 2019. Thesis, University of Notre Dame. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://curate.nd.edu/show/th83kw55x3d.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Flanagan, Christopher J.. “Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution,
1774-1795</h1>.” 2019. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Flanagan CJ. Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution,
1774-1795</h1>. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2019. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/th83kw55x3d.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Flanagan CJ. Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution,
1774-1795</h1>. [Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2019. Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/th83kw55x3d
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Maryland
21.
Johnson, Mark Allen.
Heads of State, Heads of Households: Social and Political Power Relationships in Early America.
Degree: History, 2011, University of Maryland
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11750
► This thesis explores familial and political power relationships in the American colonies after the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 through the establishment of the…
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▼ This thesis explores familial and political power relationships in the
American colonies after the Glorious
Revolution in England in 1688 through the establishment of the independent
American republic. It investigates how early
American statesmen, such as Presidents and state governors, related with their families and with the public. By examining the private and public correspondence and public addresses of these characters as government leaders and heads of household, it will explain how patriarchal ideals, laws, and practices persisted and changed during the political upheaval of the
American Revolution and establishment of the republic with the creation of the Constitution. It will also demonstrate how familial relationships affected people's political understandings.
Advisors/Committee Members: Lyons, Clare A (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: History; Adams; American; Family; Jefferson; Revolution; Washington
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Johnson, M. A. (2011). Heads of State, Heads of Households: Social and Political Power Relationships in Early America. (Thesis). University of Maryland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11750
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Johnson, Mark Allen. “Heads of State, Heads of Households: Social and Political Power Relationships in Early America.” 2011. Thesis, University of Maryland. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11750.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Johnson, Mark Allen. “Heads of State, Heads of Households: Social and Political Power Relationships in Early America.” 2011. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Johnson MA. Heads of State, Heads of Households: Social and Political Power Relationships in Early America. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2011. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11750.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Johnson MA. Heads of State, Heads of Households: Social and Political Power Relationships in Early America. [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/11750
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Sydney
22.
Vine, Benjamin David.
For the Peace of the Town: Boston's Politics in the American Revolution, 1776–1787
.
Degree: 2018, University of Sydney
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18346
► This thesis examines the local politics of Boston during the Revolutionary War and the years that followed. After the evacuation of the British army in…
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▼ This thesis examines the local politics of Boston during the Revolutionary War and the years that followed. After the evacuation of the British army in March 1776, Boston continued to face many significant challenges as a result of the war and the political upheaval caused by the Revolution. This thesis particularly focuses on the effects of food shortages and currency depreciation in the town, which caused conflict between Boston’s commercial elite and labouring classes. It argues that while the ideals of the Revolution inspired ordinary Bostonians to challenge the political and economic power of the merchants, ultimately the merchants maintained their authority within the town and Massachusetts more widely. The merchants’ continued supremacy had two main causes: first, Boston’s labouring classes fragmented during the Revolution and thus could no longer unite against merchant power. The town’s leaders encouraged this division among ordinary people through their suppression of plebeian rioting and festivities following brawls with French sailors in 1778. Second, the town’s political elite prevented an alliance from forming between labouring Bostonians and farmers in the countryside by ensuring that the heavy state tax regime conservative elites implemented in the 1780s did not affect Bostonians. This meant the disaffection of farmers in the countryside did not spread to Boston’s labouring people in the 1780s. Merchants also created distance between labouring people in town and country by repeatedly claiming that greedy farmers were the cause of Boston’s woes during and after the Revolutionary War. Understanding how Boston’s commercial elite maintained their power in newly independent America thus contributes to our understanding of how the local politics of the Revolutionary War prevented the incipiently egalitarian visions of labouring people from flourishing in America’s founding period.
Subjects/Keywords: Boston;
American Revolution;
artisans;
Shays Rebellion
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Vine, B. D. (2018). For the Peace of the Town: Boston's Politics in the American Revolution, 1776–1787
. (Thesis). University of Sydney. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18346
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Vine, Benjamin David. “For the Peace of the Town: Boston's Politics in the American Revolution, 1776–1787
.” 2018. Thesis, University of Sydney. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18346.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Vine, Benjamin David. “For the Peace of the Town: Boston's Politics in the American Revolution, 1776–1787
.” 2018. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Vine BD. For the Peace of the Town: Boston's Politics in the American Revolution, 1776–1787
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Sydney; 2018. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18346.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Vine BD. For the Peace of the Town: Boston's Politics in the American Revolution, 1776–1787
. [Thesis]. University of Sydney; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18346
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Princeton University
23.
Edwards, Andrew David.
Money and the American Revolution: Changing Concepts of Money and Wealth, 1765-1786
.
Degree: PhD, 2018, Princeton University
URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019p290d020
► Abstract: This dissertation explores the transformation of American money in British North America from 1765 to 1786. It demonstrates how war, revolution, and empire altered…
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▼ Abstract: This dissertation explores the transformation of
American money in British North America from 1765 to 1786. It demonstrates how war,
revolution, and empire altered basic economic institutions in British North America, and reordered
American life. In doing so, it makes contributions to the history of the
American Revolution, the history of money, and the history of capitalism. First, it shows that the
American Revolution was a response to perceived threats to an
American political economy based on what contemporaries described as money as a measure, rather than as a measure and an equivalent. It argues that British taxes and administrative imperial measures threatened the institutions that had allowed
American colonists to build propertied rather than pecuniary wealth, and the war was a direct result of these threats. Second, it contends that in neglecting the conceptual history of money, historians have missed a pivotal moment in the development of the core institution of western capitalism – the decisive shift toward money as an equivalent. Finally, it suggests that the transformation in elite
American concepts of money during the
American Revolution and their embrace of money as an equivalent – defined as gold and silver – was largely responsible for the institutions and attitudes that historians have identified with the
American transition to capitalism. In terms of money and finance, Great Britain won the
American Revolution. In the Early National period,
American elites attempted to graft a British system of money and finance they had rejected as colonists onto their system based on money as a measure and transformed the institutional basis of
American money and wealth.
Advisors/Committee Members: Wilentz, Sean (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: American Revolution;
Capitalism;
Money;
Silver;
Stamp Act
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Edwards, A. D. (2018). Money and the American Revolution: Changing Concepts of Money and Wealth, 1765-1786
. (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019p290d020
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Edwards, Andrew David. “Money and the American Revolution: Changing Concepts of Money and Wealth, 1765-1786
.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019p290d020.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Edwards, Andrew David. “Money and the American Revolution: Changing Concepts of Money and Wealth, 1765-1786
.” 2018. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Edwards AD. Money and the American Revolution: Changing Concepts of Money and Wealth, 1765-1786
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2018. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019p290d020.
Council of Science Editors:
Edwards AD. Money and the American Revolution: Changing Concepts of Money and Wealth, 1765-1786
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2018. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp019p290d020
Temple University
24.
Wong, Wendy Helen.
Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Publicity, Diplomacy, and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801.
Degree: PhD, 2014, Temple University
URL: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,279536
► History
Americans view neutrality in the 1790s as the far-seeing wisdom of the Founders and a weak power's common-sense approach to a transatlantic war in…
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▼ History
Americans view neutrality in the 1790s as the far-seeing wisdom of the Founders and a weak power's common-sense approach to a transatlantic war in which it could not afford to get involved. Far from this benign image of prudence, however, neutrality in the Early Republic was controversial: it was a style and paradigm of foreign policy that grappled with the consequences of a democratic politics exacerbated by diplomatic crises. Far from promoting tranquility, neutrality provoked uproar from the very beginning. Intense print battles erupted over sensational exposés of foreign influence and conspiracy, reverberating through the international, national, and local levels simultaneously. Print exposés of foreign intrigue provoked partisan warfare that raised the larger, unsettled (and unsettling) issues of the national interest, the exercise of federal power, and the relationship between the people and their government. This dynamic reflected and exacerbated preexisting sectional fissures in the union, triggering recourse to the politics of slavery. As a result, the politics of slavery calibrated the competing national visions of the emerging Federalists and Republicans, defining the limits of American independence while challenging the ability of the United States to remain neutral. Drawing on the efforts of diplomatic historians, political historians and literary scholars, this work illustrates the mutually constitutive relationship between print politics, foreign relations, and the politics of slavery in the Early Republic. It argues that neutrality was a style of foreign policy that both political parties used to contain sectionalism and faction, and that print politics and the politics of slavery combined to create a dynamic that made that style malleable.
Temple University – Theses
Advisors/Committee Members: Immerman, Richard H.;, Waldstreicher, David, Klepp, Susan E., Onuf, Peter S.;.
Subjects/Keywords: History;
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Wong, W. H. (2014). Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Publicity, Diplomacy, and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801. (Doctoral Dissertation). Temple University. Retrieved from http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,279536
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wong, Wendy Helen. “Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Publicity, Diplomacy, and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,279536.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wong, Wendy Helen. “Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Publicity, Diplomacy, and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801.” 2014. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Wong WH. Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Publicity, Diplomacy, and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Temple University; 2014. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,279536.
Council of Science Editors:
Wong WH. Diplomatic Subtleties and Frank Overtures: Publicity, Diplomacy, and Neutrality in the Early American Republic, 1793-1801. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Temple University; 2014. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,279536
Loyola University Chicago
25.
Di Lorenzo, Anthony.
A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery
Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800.
Degree: PhD, History, 2016, Loyola University Chicago
URL: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2127
► During the Age of Revolution, abolitionist ideas interacted with notions of liberty, independence, and equality. Although slavery often served as a metaphor, in opposition…
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▼ During the Age of Revolution,
abolitionist ideas interacted with notions of liberty,
independence, and equality. Although slavery often served as a
metaphor, in opposition to freedom, it also had tangible meanings
for the enslaved. This study traces the development of
revolutionary beliefs that connected reformers and abolitionists
across the Atlantic world, as well as the rise of conservative
ideologies that divided them. Democratic politics, religious
enthusiasm, and abolitionism converged in the late eighteenth
century, with significant implications for antislavery efforts. The
French Revolution, in particular, represented the culmination of
radical Enlightenment ideals and emboldened democrats in the United
States, contributing to transatlantic cooperation on the issue of
abolition. Social conservatives, in response to Jacobin terror in
France and fears of spreading religious infidelity, expressed
concerns over political extremism, which included abolitionism.
Anti-Jacobinism divided the nascent antislavery movement, pushing
some towards moderation and others to abandon the cause altogether
in the interest of maintaining a fragile Jeffersonian coalition.
Understanding the political and cultural responses to the
transatlantic radicalism of the period is therefore crucial to
comprehending the trajectory of the American abolitionist
movement.
Subjects/Keywords: Abolitionists; American Revolution; Antislavery; Democracy; Early Republic; French Revolution; African American Studies
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Di Lorenzo, A. (2016). A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery
Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800. (Doctoral Dissertation). Loyola University Chicago. Retrieved from https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2127
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Di Lorenzo, Anthony. “A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery
Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Loyola University Chicago. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2127.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Di Lorenzo, Anthony. “A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery
Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800.” 2016. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Di Lorenzo A. A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery
Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Loyola University Chicago; 2016. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2127.
Council of Science Editors:
Di Lorenzo A. A Higher Law: Transatlantic Revolution and Antislavery
Radicalism in Early America, 1760-1800. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Loyola University Chicago; 2016. Available from: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2127
26.
Buxton, Berry L, Jr.
African-American Empowerment in the United States Military: Understanding how African Americans are transcending inequality in a post-segregated era (1975-2015).
Degree: MA History, History, 2016, University of San Diego
URL: https://digital.sandiego.edu/theses/8
► Using statistical data and other evidence, this thesis will show that obstacles and barriers that once limited housing, job opportunity and education for African…
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▼ Using statistical data and other evidence, this thesis will show that obstacles and barriers that once limited housing, job opportunity and education for African Americans have since been removed within the U.S. military. Throughout this thesis, careful examination will show how desegregation in the military was an instrument of social change that helped to integrate
American society. It will also go one step further and illustrate the profound impact the Civil Rights Movement had on black equality in the armed forces. Furthermore, while acknowledging the struggles many African Americans endured prior to the establishment of the All-Volunteer Force, this thesis will identify a shift in
American attitude from 1951-2015.
Finally it has become clear that this thesis has determined that equality for African Americans serving in the military has improved dramatically after 1975. The rise in rank of African Americans in the military has been nothing short of remarkable. By 2015, African Americans in the military haven been given the charge of responsibility in some of the most prestigious positions in all branches of the military than ever before. With an increase in opportunities such as education, housing, pay, promotions, achievements, and tributes it is time to acknowledge that
blacks are no longer subjected to second-class citizenship. What is absolute above all else is that by 2015 African Americans were capable of achieving any position in any branch of the military for which they are qualified. Moreover, this analysis shows how the U.S. military is color blind and treats all its members with the dignity and respect that they deserve.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Michael Gonzalez, Dr. Iris Engstrand, Dr. Iris Engstrand.
Subjects/Keywords: African Americans in the military; Blacks in the military; African-American equality in the military; military equality; inequality in the military; Civil Rights and the military; Military History; United States History
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Buxton, Berry L, J. (2016). African-American Empowerment in the United States Military: Understanding how African Americans are transcending inequality in a post-segregated era (1975-2015). (Masters Thesis). University of San Diego. Retrieved from https://digital.sandiego.edu/theses/8
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Buxton, Berry L, Jr. “African-American Empowerment in the United States Military: Understanding how African Americans are transcending inequality in a post-segregated era (1975-2015).” 2016. Masters Thesis, University of San Diego. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/theses/8.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Buxton, Berry L, Jr. “African-American Empowerment in the United States Military: Understanding how African Americans are transcending inequality in a post-segregated era (1975-2015).” 2016. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Buxton, Berry L J. African-American Empowerment in the United States Military: Understanding how African Americans are transcending inequality in a post-segregated era (1975-2015). [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of San Diego; 2016. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://digital.sandiego.edu/theses/8.
Council of Science Editors:
Buxton, Berry L J. African-American Empowerment in the United States Military: Understanding how African Americans are transcending inequality in a post-segregated era (1975-2015). [Masters Thesis]. University of San Diego; 2016. Available from: https://digital.sandiego.edu/theses/8
University of Missouri – Columbia
27.
McBurney, Wendy Angela.
Stepping out of the cloak of voiceless-ness : a post-colonial and feminist analysis of the representation of the black female voice in the Afro-Hispanic narrative.
Degree: 2016, University of Missouri – Columbia
URL: https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/59848
► My dissertation focuses on the articulation of the black female voice in the literary traditions that have emerged in the Equatoguinean and Afro- Costa Rican…
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▼ My dissertation focuses on the articulation of the black female voice in the literary traditions that have emerged in the Equatoguinean and Afro- Costa Rican socio-cultural contexts in the contemporary period. It interrogates especially the representations of this female minority voice in the narrative works of, Ekomo written by, Maria Nsue Angue and Shadows of your black memory (Tinieblas de tu memoria negra), by Donato Ndongo, both writers of Equatorial Guinea. Additionally, this treatment extends to include the Afro-Costa Rican narrative works of Limón Blues written by Ana Cristina Rossi and The four mirrors (Los Cuatro Espejos) by Quince Duncan. This treatment therefore, examines the renditions of the black female voice in the her(s)tory, as well as the his(s)tory created by the female and male writers who are situated within the Afro-Hispanic literary traditions of the Post- Colonial period. It attempts to probe and explore the foundational elements in the construction of the female voice, to determine whether the female is able to articulate a voice in the narrative, or whether she is voiceless or silenced. Accordingly, it considers the differences that appear in the constructions of the female voice that appear in the works created by female writers, in comparison with those that are created by the male writers. It further interprets the significance of these representations where firstly, the female
subject is considered as articulating a voice of her own, or on the other hand, as being voiceless in the discourse. Finally, it considers how the act of "giving a voice to the voiceless" which is achieved by the female writers under examination, can have implications for the expansion of the characterizations of the female
subject not only in the literary context, but also in the society as a whole. It therefore considers the possibilities for the effective assumption of a voice by the female not only in the literary context, but as well in the context of the communities in which women live.
Advisors/Committee Members: Badiane, Mamadou (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Postcolonialism; Race awareness in literature; Females in literature; Africans; Blacks
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McBurney, W. A. (2016). Stepping out of the cloak of voiceless-ness : a post-colonial and feminist analysis of the representation of the black female voice in the Afro-Hispanic narrative. (Thesis). University of Missouri – Columbia. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/59848
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
McBurney, Wendy Angela. “Stepping out of the cloak of voiceless-ness : a post-colonial and feminist analysis of the representation of the black female voice in the Afro-Hispanic narrative.” 2016. Thesis, University of Missouri – Columbia. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/59848.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
McBurney, Wendy Angela. “Stepping out of the cloak of voiceless-ness : a post-colonial and feminist analysis of the representation of the black female voice in the Afro-Hispanic narrative.” 2016. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
McBurney WA. Stepping out of the cloak of voiceless-ness : a post-colonial and feminist analysis of the representation of the black female voice in the Afro-Hispanic narrative. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Missouri – Columbia; 2016. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/59848.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
McBurney WA. Stepping out of the cloak of voiceless-ness : a post-colonial and feminist analysis of the representation of the black female voice in the Afro-Hispanic narrative. [Thesis]. University of Missouri – Columbia; 2016. Available from: https://doi.org/10.32469/10355/59848
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Kentucky
28.
Edgar, Eir-Anne E.
Come Together: Desire, Literature, and the Law of the Sexual Revolution.
Degree: 2016, University of Kentucky
URL: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/52
► While some scholars have viewed the Sexual Revolution as a “war” with winners and losers, this project finds that all Americans were subject to the…
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▼ While some scholars have viewed the Sexual Revolution as a “war” with winners and losers, this project finds that all Americans were subject to the fantasy of liberation. This fantasy takes different forms during the era, including relaxed sexual strictures against pre-marital sex, the availability of birth control, and an increased focus on sexual pleasure. However, the seemingly liberatory quickly becomes conservative, coming into focus through the analysis of court cases and legal mandates that protected the declining structures of marriage and heteronormativity. Beginning with widespread fears about interracial mixing in the early 1950’s, escalated by the end of segregation by Brown v. BOE and ending with the availability of divorce on a nation-wide level in 1972, this project is concerned with the literary imagination and the radical cultural and political changes affecting sexuality. This dissertation places literature and film in conversation with major legal cases to show how fictional texts make evident the legal cases’ potentialities, including their gains and their failures, focusing on cultural paradigms in literature and film concerning interracial couples, homosexuality, non-monogamous marriage, and divorce. This dissertation finds that all Americans simultaneously benefited and suffered from cultural and political changes regarding sexuality during the Sexual Revolution.
Subjects/Keywords: Sexual Revolution; Americal literature; Critical Legal Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Film; Cultural Studies; American Film Studies; American Literature; American Popular Culture; English Language and Literature; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Literature in English, North America; Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority
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Edgar, E. E. (2016). Come Together: Desire, Literature, and the Law of the Sexual Revolution. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Kentucky. Retrieved from https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/52
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Edgar, Eir-Anne E. “Come Together: Desire, Literature, and the Law of the Sexual Revolution.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Kentucky. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/52.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Edgar, Eir-Anne E. “Come Together: Desire, Literature, and the Law of the Sexual Revolution.” 2016. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Edgar EE. Come Together: Desire, Literature, and the Law of the Sexual Revolution. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Kentucky; 2016. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/52.
Council of Science Editors:
Edgar EE. Come Together: Desire, Literature, and the Law of the Sexual Revolution. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Kentucky; 2016. Available from: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/52
Miami University
29.
Sommer, Heather J.
Of Crimes and Calamities: Marie Antoinette in American
Political Discourse.
Degree: MA, History, 2018, Miami University
URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532967916465092
► Early American attitudes toward Marie Antoinette as found in print culture and correspondence illustrates how factions came to understand her as exemplifying the threat politicized…
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▼ Early
American attitudes toward Marie Antoinette as
found in print culture and correspondence illustrates how factions
came to understand her as exemplifying the threat politicized women
appeared to pose to their republican experiment. Despite differing
opinions about the course of the French
Revolution and the queen’s
role within it, Federalists and Republicans believed she
exacerbated France’s difficulties and disapproved of her conduct.
In a time when
American women were increasingly engaged in the
public sphere, both parties used Marie Antoinette as a
counterexample to define
American women’s proper role within the
new republic. Partisans suggested the queen’s absolutist agenda
undercut French reform and/or hindered the people’s liberty and
that
American women should avoid political activity in order to be
spared a similar disastrous fate. This instruction helped both
parties devise an ideal republican society that promoted exclusive
male political participation and female domesticity while
protecting against feminine and monarchical
depravities.
Advisors/Committee Members: Schakenbach Regele, Lindsay (Advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: History; Early American Republic; public sphere; political culture; women in politics; monarchy; absolutism; republicanism; Marie Antoinette; Louis XVI; French Revolution; republican motherhood; female domesticity; partisanship; Federalists; Republicans
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Sommer, H. J. (2018). Of Crimes and Calamities: Marie Antoinette in American
Political Discourse. (Masters Thesis). Miami University. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532967916465092
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Sommer, Heather J. “Of Crimes and Calamities: Marie Antoinette in American
Political Discourse.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Miami University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532967916465092.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sommer, Heather J. “Of Crimes and Calamities: Marie Antoinette in American
Political Discourse.” 2018. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Sommer HJ. Of Crimes and Calamities: Marie Antoinette in American
Political Discourse. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Miami University; 2018. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532967916465092.
Council of Science Editors:
Sommer HJ. Of Crimes and Calamities: Marie Antoinette in American
Political Discourse. [Masters Thesis]. Miami University; 2018. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532967916465092
Penn State University
30.
Pierrot, Gregory.
The Black Avenger Trope in Atlantic Literature.
Degree: 2012, Penn State University
URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/15106
► The fear that an African American nation might rise out of the Atlantic slave trade has been on Western minds since the late seventeenth century.…
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▼ The fear that an African
American nation might rise out of the Atlantic slave trade has been on Western minds since the late seventeenth century. The black avenger trope is a singular and lasting cultural product of this anxiety, which my dissertation explores more specifically in French, English and
American culture and history. A variety of authors, among whom Aphra Behn, Abbé Raynal, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Marcus Rainsford, Ottobah Cugoano, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Charles Chesnutt, Sutton E. Griggs, Boris Vian, Chester Himes, illustrate the trope’s ubiquity and persistence through time in cultures of the Atlantic world. The modern nations of the Atlantic world imagined, analyzed and represented black revolt through the prism of black avenger narratives, whose reach and influence knew no national or linguistic bounds. The significance of the black avenger trope goes even further: this dissertation demonstrates that the trope was central to the way nations of the Atlantic and related communities of the African diaspora imagined and re-imagined themselves as they evolved. This dissertation explores a line of black avenger narratives and their connection and relevance to their immediate historical context, showing how the black avenger trope contributed crucial patterns to national narratives at defining moments in the history of France, Great Britain and the United States. Modern nations imagine themselves as reading communities; producing and interpreting black avenger texts have ranked among the self-defining actions they perform, and remain a pertinent key to better analyze the textual ties that bind notions of race and nation.
Advisors/Committee Members: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair, Paul Youngquist, Committee Member, Carla Mulford, Committee Member, Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member, Shirley Moody, Committee Member, Jonathan Paul Eburne, Special Member.
Subjects/Keywords: Black Diaspora; Haitian Revolution; African American Literature; American Literature; Comparative Literature
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Pierrot, G. (2012). The Black Avenger Trope in Atlantic Literature. (Thesis). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/15106
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pierrot, Gregory. “The Black Avenger Trope in Atlantic Literature.” 2012. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed December 01, 2020.
https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/15106.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pierrot, Gregory. “The Black Avenger Trope in Atlantic Literature.” 2012. Web. 01 Dec 2020.
Vancouver:
Pierrot G. The Black Avenger Trope in Atlantic Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2012. [cited 2020 Dec 01].
Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/15106.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Pierrot G. The Black Avenger Trope in Atlantic Literature. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2012. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/15106
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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