Browsing by Subject "History"
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(2019-06-07)Department: HistoryThis dissertation reveals how the importation of South Asian artworks, antiquities, religious images, and other items were central to British understandings of the subcontinent and of British national character. This study ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
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(2010-06-11)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores African ideas and practices related to bodies, health, illness and death in the early modern Spanish Caribbean. African healing traditions were an essential part of the imagination of bodies, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05-03)Since the start of the War in the Donbas in 2014, the miners of the Donetsk Coal Basin have suffered immensely due to economic and political destabilization, mine flooding, mine closures, intermittent shelling, mounting ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)In the early 7th Century CE, the Umayyad dynasty formed the first Islamic empire, marking a crucial moment in the emergence of Islam. As in many empires of Late Antiquity, religious monumentation played a central role in ...
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(2018)Born and raised in Williamson County, Dr. Eleanor Fleming grew up with the history of the Civil War alive around her. The salutatorian of her graduating class at Battle Ground Academy, Dr. Fleming remembers the cannons and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-28)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-27)
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(2018)Nashville native Gary Burke recounts his personal history in relation to Fort Negley, and his involvement in the 13th United States Colored Troop Living History Organization. After Mr. Burke dug into his family history, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)In 1936, the Republic of Turkey and French-mandate Syria were at odds over the future of a province on the Turkish-Syrian border called the Sanjak of Alexandretta. This thesis explores the Turkish annexation of Alexandretta, ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-02-20)This essay seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge of how to successfully engage language minority students in the study of history. It is separated into four distinct sections, each containing findings from ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-08-22)Rammanohar Lohia was a failed politician. By the time he was finally to the Lok Sabha -- India’s lower house of parliament -- in 1963, it was clear that his Socialist Party would never be a major force in Indian politics. ...
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(2018)Kathleen Wilson writes that the domestic elite of Georgian Britain sought a psychological "disavowal" of the West Indian planting class because elite flaws were reflected in the perceived degeneracy and excess of the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of History, 2018)This thesis examines the yearbooks of two missionary girls’ secondary schools in Shanghai, the McTyeire School and St. Mary’s Hall, from 1917 to 1948. In response to the increasing Chinese nationalism, the female students ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04)
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“Our God is Marching On”: James Hudson and the Theological Foundation of the Civil Rights Movement (2010-08-02)Department: HistoryThis dissertation is an intellectual biography of James Hudson (1903-1980), a black minister and philosopher of religion. Standing just over five feet tall with a body that lacked a right arm and weighed less than 140 ...