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The United States Relations with Nationalist China: 1949-1955
(1967)"The United States Relations with Nationalist China" is an attempt to study the people and events of the years 1949 to 1955 in an orderly and comprehensible manner. The years immediately after the Second World War were ... -
Unlikely Allies : A Comparative Analysis of the Political Careers of Willy Brandt and Richard Nixon
(2014)Both Brandt and Nixon took difficult routes to get to the top of their nation's government. Their familial circumstances left much to be desired and though their early political careers were successful, they both entered ... -
The Unstable Strait: How the United States has Ineffectively Managed U.S. - Taiwan - China Relations
(2006)This thesis will focus on how the United States' diplomatic traditions have harmed its ability to effectively execute foreign policy in East Asia, most particularly in regards to Taiwan. Taiwan serves as an optimal case ... -
Unsucessful But Not Unimportant : Analyzing the Story of the 1825 Treaty of Prairie du Chien
(2017)This 1825 treaty was unique because it was one of very few treaties that did not ask the nations who signed it to give up anything to the United States in terms of land cessions or land access. Its purpose, at the most ... -
The Upjohn Company, 1884-1932
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Urban London and Its Housing in the Nineteenth Century
(1970)It was while reading Elman and Fried's reader, Charles Booth's London, that I first had the idea to write this essay concerning London's urbanization and the housing of its working classes. A few months later, I spent ... -
US and British Media Perceptions of Warlord Era China from 1920-1928
(2012)Most warlord historians describe Warlord Era China as a time of great chaos, confusion, and complexity. The chaos that engulfed China during the 1920s made it difficult for foreign nations with economic interests in the ... -
The Uyghur of Xinjiang
(2006)This paper will trace the history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants from early prehistory to the present (Chapters 1 and 2). It will also examine the current Chinese government's policies toward the Uyghur and the ... -
Veiled Identities: Arab American Gender Identities Throughout the Twentieth Century
(2009)Arabs have been immigrating to the United States since the late nineteenth century, and there are approximately 850,000 people of Arab ancestry living there today. Arabs arrived in the U.S. in two major waves; the first ... -
Victorian Ideals and Black Upper Class Family Life in Early Twentieth Century Atlanta
(2011)In my paper I will argue that the black upper class over the span of thirty years from the late nineteenth century until World War I hoped that by teaching the working classes values they learned within the home and ... -
Wales During the Rein of Edward IV
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War, Repression, and Factionalism : The Collapse ofthe American Socialist Movement in the Early Twentieth Century
(2015)The socialist movement in the United States was never monolithic in terms of its ideology, demographics, or geography, and it suffered from intense and often debilitating factional struggles. Historians have attempted to ... -
The Way of the Warrior: The Development and Virtues of the Martial Philosophy in Feudal Japan and Europe
(1985)Many cultures in history have passed through what we call a feudal age. The most basic unit of feudalism is the bond of loyalty between an individual and his lord. The stronger that bond, and the more important it is to a ... -
"We Are Not Permitted to be Anywhere Else:" Prostitution, Sexuality, and Reform in New York City, 1830-1900
(2008)The Underworld Sewer is a rare find, as it is a book about prostitution by a former prostitute and madam at the turn of the century. Washburn's book is one of a handful of first-hand accounts by prostitutes, but while ... -
"We Don't Die any Differently Now Than We Did Back Then" : Victorian Post-Mortem Photography and Gender Performance
(2017)Throughout history humans have had an interest in death, an interest in the how and why, pursuing answers through religion and through science. The English relationship with Death changed a lot during the Victorian Period. ... -
"We Will All Go Together When We Go" : Civil Defense, Nuclear Consciousness, and American Anxieties in the Early Nuclear Age
(2019)The author sets out to define, identify, and examine the ways in which nuclear consciousness manifested itself in the lives of ordinary Americans in the early days of nuclear weapons, beginning with the attacks on Japan ... -
"The Week it Happened Here": The Urban League and Race Relations in Postwar Grand Rapids
(2013)The author traces the 20th century migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and the growing problems with housing, employment and racial tensions that exploded in July, 1967 in riots in ...