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Wiedervereinigung oder Anschluss?: The effects of Reunification in former East Germany
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
This paper examines the structural changes in East German institutions that occurred in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the years following German Reunification and how they represented a western "takeover" ...
Rejecting Reason and Embracing Modernized Art: How Victory Over the Sun Revolutionized the Russian Avant-Garde
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
The elemental makeup and design of the Russian futurist anti-opera play, Victory Over the Sun, set an artistic precedence during the years leading up to the Russian Revolution. The Russian Avant-Garde movement, which played ...
British Palestine, British Communists, and the Ideo-Logical System of Labour Monthly
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) offers an account of the Mandate of Palestine strikingly divergent from the rest of British society. Through their ideology, the CPGB constructed a narrative of Palestinian issues ...
Marechera: Meaning in the Shadows
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
In his book, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, Toyin Falola poses the fundamental question of "How can Africa uplift itself?" in the wake of decolonization. This question of how Africa should proceed from colonization ...
Thematic Cartography For Social Reform In Chicago, 1894-1923
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
A historiographical analysis of thematic mapping in turn-of-the-century Chicago reveals the role of cartography as a highly politicized method for sorting and labeling urban populations. Progressive Era reformers and ...
Stars and Stripes… and Shamrocks?: Clinton's Intervention in Northern Ireland
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
For decades, tensions flared between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with little recognition or action on the part of American presidents. Even in the face of human rights atrocities and political oppression, ...
An Interview with Professor Michael Bess
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
Dr. Michael Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is one of the leading scholars in his field. He is a specialist 20th- and 21st-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and ...
Look Forward in Confusion: An Evaluation of Postwar Europe's Interaction with the Past
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
This paper uses the works of John Osborne, Azouz Begag, and Peter Maass to deconstruct the generalization that Europeans "developed within the shadow of the past." The British dramatist, French-Algerian autobiographer, and ...
Devotion and Decay: Death in the Late Medieval Imagination
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
Medieval representations of death can illuminate how individuals conceptualised the experience. The poem "A Disputacione Betwyx The Body and Wormes" is a productive lens through which to consider contemporary notions of ...
US-Haitian Relations: Adams through Jefferson and Beyond
(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)
US-Haitian relations had a rough beginning, as the possible American recognition of Haiti became a fixed point of tension between the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans in domestic and foreign policy from 1797 to 1806. ...