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The Bishop in His Diocese and Cathedral: A Study of Bath and Wells in the Fifteenth Century
(1975)A close study of Bath and Wells reveals that the bishops were always an important factor in its administration. They influenced the composition and actions of not only their own staff, but also that of Wells Cathedral. ... -
The Black and Tans: A New Evaluation
(1969)A book by Richard Bennett entitled The Black and Tans was published in 1959. In spite of the title, Bennett's work was not an in-depth study of a very controversial body of men, but rather was a chronological history ... -
The "Black Death" and the Catholic Church in Fourteenth Century England
(2017)The "Black Death" is the name given to the outbreak of Yersinia pestis, a strain of the plague-causing bacterium, in the fourteenth century that emerged in Europe in 1347 and spread to England in the autumn of 1348, achieving ... -
Black Jews : The Awakening of a Historical Journey from the Continent of Africa to the Americas
(2016-09-01)Over the years in Africa and the United States, through a variety of religious encounters, some black African societies adopted, or possibly rediscovered, an Israelite religious identity and heritage. This project grows ... -
The Black Man in Lansing, Michigan, 1928 - 1940: Background to the Childhood of Malcolm X
(1970)This work is an attempt to assist both the writer and the reader in gaining greater understanding of particular forces which helped create a man, Malcolm X. We can better understand any man by attempting to comprehend ... -
Black Power and the Black Student Organization at Kalamazoo College
(2011)This paper will examine the formation of the Black Student Organization at Kalamazoo College in 1968, and its practices and ideals of the organization between 1968 and 1969. It will describe how these African American ... -
Bobs, Boys, Brains, and the Bomb : Postwar Teenage Girls Speak Through Seventeen
(2020-06-01)Using Seventeen magazine as a case study, the goal of this project is not dissimilar to that of Helen Valentine's in "Seventeen Says Hello": to gain a greater understanding of postwar American teenage girls and their ... -
The Body Complex : Women's Bodies in the American Media from 1950 to 1970
(2014)From 1950 to 1970, the American media helped to define standards for feminine beauty and figure. The depictions of women in movies, television shows, and magazines provided an archetype that instructed women on what they ... -
The Body in Late Antique Art
(1994)As the Roman Empire in the late second and third-centuries suffered a time of great turbulence, men and women found they could no longer live according to confined classical ideals. People felt lost, cast adrift with no ... -
Bonds of Honor: The Relationship between King and Warriors in Sixth and Seventh Century Britain
(1986)The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of the king in the societies of sixth and seventh century Britain and how that role differed for Anglo-Saxons, Welsh, and Irish; to examine the ways in which warriors ... -
Boundaries on the "Wild" : Late Nineteenth-Century Governmental Language Concerning Yellowstone National Park and the American Indian
(2017)This project examines how these two differing land preserves with opposite goals were promoted and defended in similar ways and run in similar manners. It examines the reservations and the park through the governmental ... -
Breaking the Silence : Chilean Documentary Film as a Source of Memory During and After Pinochet's Dictatorship
(2016)Two key concepts central to the analytical approach of Chilean documentary films, "memory knots" and olvido, shape this study. The first refers to memories marked by humanity, space, and time that have become "so bothersome, ... -
The Bright Young Things : A Social History of the Younger Generation in Britain Between the Wars, 1919-1934
(1982)The Bright Young People were to change society life as the British knew it, tearing away from the last remnants of Edwardian England that had survived the war. The period 1926-29 was the hey-day of the Bright Young Things, ... -
Britain in Crisis : The British Economy, 1929-1931
(1983)"Reconstruction, Recovery, and Peace" became the key words of the Twenties, just as "Planning” became in the Thirties. The crisis of 1929-31 left behind an era of sorts. As the fog cleared it became ever more apparent that ... -
British Foreign Policy in Iran 1906-1914
(1977)In this paper I hoped to study British foreign policy in Iran just before World War I. It was a very important time in the history of that country in that it faced a grave danger of foreign control at the same time as it ... -
British Imperialism in Southern Nigeria, 1830-1890
(1968)The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the nature of British imperialism in southern Nigeria in order to arrive at a more precise conception of British imperialism in Africa than that provided by the studies of V. I. ... -
British Involvement in South Africa: The Events Contributing to the Anglo-Boer War of 1899
(1978)South Africa's ability to continue a policy of apartheid after most of the world has condemned her actions, shows the true strength of Afrikaner nationalism. The Afrikaners of today, like their forefathers before them, ...