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Title: "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlisting in the 18th Century British Army
Author: Kane, Nicholas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Military history
Description: NICHOLAS KANE. "Arms an Employment": Motivations for Enlistment in the 18th Century British Army. (Under the direction of Drs. DAVID JOHNSON and JOHN SMAIL) In the eighteenth century, the British military boomed in size with the various wars that ...

Title: Calcutta and J.Z. Holwell, a man on the periphery
Author: Branch, William
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: 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...

Title: Man's Best Friend: Britain, the Great War, and the Making of the Modern Dog
Author: Brotze, Blake
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The long nineteenth century and World War I greatly changed people's lives across Europe. The birth and subsequent rise of the middle class in industrialized nations significantly altered societies and cultures. In countries such as the British Em...

Title: THE LION’S REDEMPTION: DECOLONIZATION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE DECADE FOLLOWING THE SUEZ CRISIS
Author: Kunz, William
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: While Britain’s withdrawal from Empire has always been seen as a negative, this thesis focuses on the successes in British foreign policy in the post Suez Crisis of 1956 era. By examining how Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East and Africa ...

Title: Tea culture and the British Empire, 1600-1900
Author: Ashby, Brittany
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: At the end of the fifteenth century, the consumption of tea remained predominantly in the East, and only a few wealthy western aristocrats knew of the tea plant. Only one hundred years later, tea sparked the interests of many nations and consumpti...

Title: “PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
Author: Whittington, Joseph
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
Description: In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...