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The La Crosse Bridge War 1872 - 1876
(1976)One of the functions of this paper is to tell the story of the La Crosse bridge war.· The other purpose is to try to give La Crosse a place in American railroading history. Railroads played an important part in U.S. history, ... -
La Region Historique Francaise
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The Labour Left and the Manual Working Class: Socialist Idealism Versus Working Class Pragmatism Undermines the Future of a Britist Political Party
(1984)The Labour Party has constituted an integral part of the British political system for over seventy years. The disintegration of the Liberal Party after World War I propelled a young and weakly organized Labour Party ... -
Language and Loyalty : Lingual Shift from Nahuatl to Spanish in Colonial Tlaxcala
(2023-03-01)In the past 500 years the Mexican state of Tlaxcala has gone from a population that spoke exclusively Nahuatl and other indigenous languages to a population where 98% of the population speaks Spanish as their native language. ... -
The Last Days of Prohibition in Kalamazoo
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The Last War: The Comanches in Defeat and on the Reservation 1874-75
(1968)For most people, the problem of adjusting to some foreign way of life is a cultural shock, but the demands on these people to give up their old cultural habits for those of the modern nineteenth century were often ... -
Late Antique Coptic Textiles, Secular and Sacred: Textiles from Karanis, Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Descriptions of Clothing in Coptic Monastic Texts
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1998)This Senior Individualized Project consists of two parts: a museum internship completed at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the summer of 1998,.and a research project begun at the University ... -
Latin Christendom and the East: Religion and Myth In the West's Interpretation of the Far East after the Mongol Invasions
(2018)The Western world, particularly western Europe has always viewed the Far Eastern regions of Asia through a socially constructed lens that Edward Said coined Orientalism. Yet, this scholarly attribute to the West's view of ... -
The Latvian Center Garezers : The Culmination of Personal Experiences and Building of Community Among the Latvian Diaspora
(2023-01-01)My interest in researching Garezers comes from a deeply-rooted personal attachment to the camp. Both of my parents graduated from GVV, my mother went on to teach Latvian art history and Latvian history at the camp, and my ... -
Laying the Cornerstone of War : Colonial Fraternity and the American Revolution
(2017)The voluntary organizations and social groups of the Revolutionary War became ingrained in American society, and increased in popularity after the war. These bodies became an essential marker of class and social distinction ... -
Leftist Groups of the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War : A War Against Franco and One Another
(2018)On March 28th, 1939 General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist army successfully occupied Madrid, Spain after laying siege to it for almost two years. Just three days later on April 1st, the three year war of attrition ... -
Les Musées Coloniaux dans l’Imagination Française : Un Examen Critique de la Représentation des Africains sub-sahariens à l’Exposition Internationale Coloniale de 1931
(2020-04-01)French colonialism during the interwar period is easily an under-studied terrain both with respect to studied colonial images and the historical underpinnings of the period. Scholars of this period consider French colonial ... -
Letters from Almost Nowhere: The Effect of the Intended and the Unintended Reader upon the Epistolary Dialogue of American Soldiers during World War I
(2001)The letters exchanged between home and the front provide invaluable opportunities to study conceptions of privacy and individuality in relation to the very communal nature of war. The correspondence of Clarence Mueller ... -
The Libellus of Jordan of Saxony: History and Hagiography
(2010)It will be the argument of this study that the activity described in the Libellus constituted a Revolution of its own fashion. It seems clear to me that the early Dominicans were defined by a number of principles: they ... -
Liberia: A Study of the Colonial Period 1817-1845
(1964)The underlying assumption of this paper is that the first-hand writings of the colonists and the later academic monographs of the anthropologists and ethnographers are in some way complementary; that both are necessary ... -
The Life of Anthony Cooley
(1958-01-07)