Browsing Undergraduate Honors Research by Subject "History"
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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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(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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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-28)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2023-04-27)
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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. 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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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)In October of 1736, in the small colony of Antigua, a group of enslaved persons plotted to overthrow the white planter class, abolish slavery, and declare independence from British rule. Four free Black men were accused ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2020-04-20)
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(2021-05-03)From February to May 1960, a racially and socioeconomically diverse coalition of students and clergy members staged nonviolent sit-ins in downtown Nashville with the goal of desegregating public spaces in the city. In these ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2021-04-26)This thesis creates and captures a twenty year history of the suppression liberation theology in Latin America. This suppression was aimed at Gustavo Gutierrez, one of the founders of liberation theology, and was lead by ...
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(2019-04-29)On May 4, 1965, two months after the first Marines landed in Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson spoke at a dinner meeting with the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. “So we must be ready to fight in Vietnam," he famously announced, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-04-27)