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Reclaiming the Unredeemed: Irredentism and the National Schism in Greece's First World War
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Author
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Kinley, Christopher
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Military history, Area studies
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Description
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Greece’s role in the First World War, although short, was characterized by political and social tumult that tore the small country in half, splitting it into two political camps both with their own public supporters. This divide is known as the Na...
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Rebellious and Reserved: The Fluidity of African American Slave Masculinity
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Author
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McManimen, Rachel
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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Enslaved men, marginalized by their race and class, sought to reclaim their masculinity and fashion a gendered identity within the slave community. Most commonly examined by historians, ex-slaves acted violently, physically engaging either their m...
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Piers Plowman, Poverty, and the Medieval Church
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Author
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Doss, Henry
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Medieval, History--Religious aspects, Middle Ages, History
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Description
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ABSTRACTThis thesis examines the claim that the 14th century experienced a dramatic change in how poverty is understood and addressed in society. This shift can be understood as a long-term social dialectic – one that arcs toward synthesis, but te...
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Crime and Punishment: Peasant Resistance in the Ukraine, 1927-1933
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Author
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Slawson, Larry
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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World history, History
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Description
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Between 1927 and 1933, the Soviet Union underwent numerous social, political, and economic changes under collectivization and the "First Five-Year Plan." In their struggle to industrialize, the Soviet regime often resorted to excessive grain-procu...
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A Dark Enlightenment: Julius Evola and the Temptation of Esoteric Fascism
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Author
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Johnson, Caleb
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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From 1926 until 1974, the Italian scholar and spiritualist Julius Evola produced books, articles, and essays on the source of the decline of the modern world. These works showed a devotion to a long-passed Golden age, when power was absolute, hier...
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Calcutta and J.Z. Holwell, a man on the periphery
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Author
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Branch, William
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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WILLIAM ARMSTRONG BRANCH. J. Z. Holwell, a peripheral man. (Under the direction of Dr. David Johnson) In the middle of the eighteenth century the trading city of Calcutta flourished by exporting three categories of goods; textiles, opium, and salt...
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COMMEMORATING QUEEN CHARLOTTE: RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY, 1750 TO 2014
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Author
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Gregory, Bethany
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Sex role, History
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Description
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Despite the vast research by historians on Queen Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as a person, little research has been conducted on what she meant to the people of regions named in her honor. This thesis seeks to uncover the significance ...
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A Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929
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Author
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Stevens, Megan
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Modern, History
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Description
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In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, ...