Browsing by Subject "American history"
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(2012-07-23)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines how Zimbabwe achieved independence under majority rule in April 1980. Drawing on recently-declassified archival materials from South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, Zambia, and ...
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(2013-08-20)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines Mexican and Anglo race relations in the Texas borderland during the decade of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920. The outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 led to hostilities between Anglos ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: HistoryThis dissertation is an examination of the American presidency and its use of personal diplomacy in the second half of the twentieth century. Through letter writing, telephone conversations, visits to the White House, and ...
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(2016-09-13)Department: HistoryThis dissertation uses early narcotics criminalization in the United States—at the local, state, and federal levels—to demonstrate that passage of new criminal laws played a central role in reconfiguring state power and ...