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Title: An Examination of Judicial and Legislative Documents on Indigenous Tribute and Indigenous Strategies used in Negotiations in the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, 1782-1820
Author: Harnach, Emily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: This study shows the importance of indigenous communities by analyzing judicial and legislative documents involving indigenous tribute and indigenous strategies used in negotiations in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, during the late colonial p...

Title: BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Author: Gallemore, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...

Title: Doctors in Dictatorship: An Oral History Approach to the Chilean Medical Body’s Role in Regime Change.
Author: Urrutia, Ana
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History, Labor economics
Description: From 1970 until the end of the military dictatorship, doctors in Chile became deeply entangled with the state in their efforts to secure and expand their professional authority and power. Working both collectively through their professional associ...

Title: Indigenous Rights at the Crossroads of Development and Environmental Protection in the TIPNIS, Bolivia
Author: Walton, Leah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: On September 25, 2011, Bolivia garnered international attention when federal police violently attacked the camp of indigenous protestors marching against the construction of a highway through the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécur...

Title: MEMORIAL CINEMA IN LATIN AMERICA: FILMIC DEPICTIONS OF THE DIRTY WARS IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO
Author: PAIVA DE ARAUJO, SOFIA
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Motion pictures, Area studies, History
Description: Notably, the authoritarian regimes of Latin America during the Cold War have been discussed not only in the academy but also by the arts. The conflicts and violence of the period have been depicted in several plays, performances, testimonios, memo...

Title: Pedro II and Getulio Vargas: National Leaders, Words, and Sociopolitical Change in Brazil during the Paraguayan War and World War II
Author: Ortiz, Nicholas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The speeches given by Pedro Segundo and Getulio Vargas during wartime not only reveals their orientation of leadership but in turn provides something else. These discourses gives one a unique window into not only how these leaders chose to perceiv...

Title: RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ, ROSALINA TUYUC, AND LAURA REYES: CONTEMPORARY MAYA WOMEN IN GUATEMALAN POLITICS
Author: Moore, Mary
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Women's studies, Area studies, History
Description: This Master’s thesis analyzes the role of notable human rights activists, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, and Laura Reyes Quino, examining their directed efforts toward relieving the plight of the Mayan people in Guatemala facing g...

Title: SOMBRAS EN VIDEOJUEGOS: VIRTUAL TOURISM AND COLD WAR REPRESENTATION IN TACTICAL SHOOTERS
Author: Hawkins, Sarah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: In 2018, Newzoo reported video games as a 135 billion USD industry selling millions of units each year around the globe which also create a response in the real world as Venezuela’s prohibition on violent video games in 2009 reveals. I argue that ...

Title: Selling Souls: The Economic Supporters of the "Dirty War"
Author: Nelson, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History, Economics
Description: From 1976 to 1983 Argentina faced one of the darkest times in the countries history when a military regime took power and waged an infamous campaign against suspected left-wing political opponents during the so-called "Dirty War". This is a time w...

Title: THE 1986 WORLD CUP AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY DURING MEXICO’S “LOST DECADE”
Author: Pliego Campos, Noe
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Using newspapers from Mexico City, Ciudad Nezahualcotyl, Queretaro, and other cities throughout Mexico and outside of Mexico alongside official documents and publications, I argue that the Mexican government led by President Miguel de la Madrid su...

Title: The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century
Author: Almengor, Candie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century is a case study among many Latin American countries’ desire to display modernity in an attempt to rid of any uncivilized notoriety. This thesis juxtaposes Guatemal...

Title: We Are Paraguayan: Construction of Paraguayan National Identity Through Guaraní Language Use, 1814-1870
Author: Hanna, Nicole
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History, Area studies
Description: This research project examines the creation of the Paraguayan national identity from 1814 to 1870 as a mestizo, Guaraní-speaking people. It explores the language ideology of the Paraguayan government, which placed importance on Guaraní versus Span...

Title: “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
Author: Winch, Debora
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...