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"Popular" Economic Development and Political Nationalism--The Jamaican Decision to Withdraw From the West Indies Federation
(Kalamazoo College., 1962-12-01)On September 19, 1961, a referendum was held in Jamaica to determine whether Jamaica would continue her association with the other nine island units of the Federation of the West Indies. The results showed that the electorate ... -
The Portrait of a Lady : Identity, Gender, and Power in Colonial American Portraiture
(2017)In eighteenth-century Boston, elite families commissioned portraits to hang in their city mansions as decorations and reminders of a specific moment in their lives. The custom, which gained prominence in the second half ... -
The Portsmouth, N.H. Public Library and Its Special Collection: Its History, Its Role, Its Future
(1984)The project which I undertook at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Public Library (PPL) was to catalogue and research as thoroughly as possible the paintings and artifacts of the Special Collection in preparation for restoration ... -
Portugese Colonial Policy: The Factors Influencing It, the Supporters, and the Critics
(1970)My interest in Portugal began when I studied Portuguese language in high school. At that time I was only vaguely aware of Portugal's vast territorial holdings. More recently I studied Angola in an African politics course. ... -
Possessed of Seven Devils: Images of the Magdalene in the New Testament, The Apocrypha, and Gnosticism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 1991)We have now seen how a minor biblical figure, that of Mary Magdalene, has been vastly reinterpreted by no less than four major religious traditions, all associated with the Western Church. There is the popular Mary Magdalene, ... -
The Postmodern Revolution: An Analysis of the May 1968 Revolts and Their Effects on Cultural Production
(1991)The turbulent yet transitory events of May 1968 represent a crucial turning point within modem France. The antecedents of the cultural manifestations, known as "les evenements de Mai '68", are clearly visible when one ... -
The Potomac Company (1865-1828)
(1969)The Potomac Company was the first, canal company in the United States. But at the time of its formation it was considered to be just another of a long series of schemes by the Virginia plantation aristocracy to tap the ... -
The Prague Spring and the Evolution of the Brezhnev Doctrine
(2016)The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that a threat to socialism within any single socialist nation constituted a threat to socialism within the entirety of the Eastern bloc. Consequently, any such counterrevolutionary threat would ... -
Prelude to Secession: Public Reaction to John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry October - December 1859
(1970)Although the author maintains definite ideas of where responsibility for the Civil War is most highly concentrated, the issue remains incredibly complex. Rather than argue dogmatically for one cause or another, the purpose ... -
Prelude to War: An Examination of the New York Times as a Case Study in the Development of Anti-Kaiserism in the United States 1913-1917
(1981)This paper is the study of the development of an idea, a chronological study of the image of the German Kaiser as it was presented in the editorial columns of the New York Times from 1913 - 1917. This time period was chosen ... -
"The Price of Empire" : Portrayals of Nineteenth Century Imperialism on Film
(1992)It seems as though "no historical films seem as dated as those about the British Empire." This is true, but only because the system of values of society has change significantly since the beginning of the genre of Empire ... -
Progress: An Experiment in Historiography and Environmental Theater
(2013)The author presents two essays: "Women's Reproductive Rights in Nazi Germany : Mothers, 'Degenerates' and the State," and "Designing 'Progress' : Hitting the Books, Dipping the Brushes, Screwing the Bolts." The first essay ... -
The Proposed Declaration of a Franco-British Union: June 16, 1940
(1974)This paper isolates a particular point in time. Although I have dealt with the origins of a proposal and evaluated some of the possible consequences of its defeat, the opportunity to support or to reject this proposal ... -
The Pursuit of Privateering as Seen Through the Eyes of Nathan Reeves, 1759-1760
(1984)My choice of subject matter was based on a longtime interest in the sea and American colonial history. Privateering provides a good reference point from which to understand pre-revolutionary America, for it exemplifies the ... -
Quebec: Educational Development, 1800-1875
(1978)The people of Quebec elected a new Prime Minister and filled the seats of the National Assembly (i.e. Legislature of the province of Quebec) in the election of November, 1976. Rene Levesque became Prime Minister and his ... -
“A Question of Labor”: Planters, Freed Slaves, and Alternate Laborers in the American South, 1865‐1875
(2012)“The Labor Question” was planters’ response to freedpeoples’ various acts of resistance on their plantations. By looking at the way Southern planters characterized black laborers in this debate, one can see how plantation ...
