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The Coming of Conscription in Britain (open access)

The Coming of Conscription in Britain

The subject of this thesis is the conscription debate in Great Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, defined in a social-cultural context. The basic assumption is that a process of cultural conditioning works to determine human actions; actions therefore can be understood by examining cultural conditioning. That examination in this thesis is limited to a study of social and intellectual influences relating to conscription as they acted upon various groups in the English community prior to the Great War. The thesis also discusses the 1915-1916 crisis over actual adoption of conscription, in light of these influences.
Date: May 1972
Creator: Baker, Suzanne Helen
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Present Conditions in Germany as an Effect of the Treaty of Versailles (open access)

The Present Conditions in Germany as an Effect of the Treaty of Versailles

This is a study of the causes of the rise of the Third Reich, and its attitude toward the Treaty of Versailles.
Date: May 1939
Creator: Schmidt, Jess Edwin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Reconstruction in Texas 1865-1867 (open access)

Presidential Reconstruction in Texas 1865-1867

Presidential reconstruction in Texas proceeded under the direction of provisional governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton, a Texas Unionist. Texas Unionists had deep political roots in pre-war politics and sought to reconstruct along moderate lines. Following the constitutional convention of 1866, conservative James Webb Throckmorton won the gubernatorial race against Unionist Elisha Marshall Pease. Throckmorton's administration did very little to curb the intense violence directed at Unionists in Texas, and the conservative legislature passed legislation repressive to blacks. Texas Unionists grew increasingly radical, and Throckmorton clashed with the federal military over the question of authority. After the Radicals in Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, Throckmorton was removed as governor, and E.M. Pease was appointed in his place, ending presidential reconstruction in Texas.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Chapin, Walter T.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia (open access)

Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia

Book chapter discussing research on the issues involved in the secession of Virginia around the Civil War, including slavery and politics.
Date: 2006
Creator: Torget, Andrew J., 1978-
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Importance of Charleston in Southern History (open access)

Importance of Charleston in Southern History

This study describes the history of Charleston, South Carolina before the Civil War.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Miles, Jim Tom
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Woman's Movement in Louisiana: 1879-1920 (open access)

The Woman's Movement in Louisiana: 1879-1920

In this study the term "woman's movement" is defined as any advancement made by women, socially, economically, legally, or politically. In addition to information gathered from various collections, memoirs, diaries, and contemporary newspaper accounts of Louisiana women's activities, material from a number of pertinent secondary works is included. Chapter one gives a brief overview of the women's movement as it developed in America in the latter half of the 19th century. This is followed by a chapter on women in Louisiana before 1879- Evidence suggests that a number of Louisiana women shared a common bond with other southern women in longing for an emancipation from their limited role in society. The last six chapters are devoted to the woman's movement in the state, beginning in 1879 when women first dared to to speak out in public in behalf of women. After the Civil War, a large number of women were forced by post war conditions to depart from the traditional life-style of home and family and venture into public life. Liberated from their societal mold, women slowly expanded their sphere, going beyond the immediate need to provide a livelihood. Early women's organizations, temperance unions, church societies, and women's clubs, provided …
Date: August 1982
Creator: Lindig, Carmen Meriwether
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Court of the Captain of the People

This paper discusses research on the Court of the Captain of the People, part of the judicial system in Florence, Italy, in the 14th century.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Hamilton, Desirae & Stern, Laura Ikins
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machiavelli's 'The Prince' as a Satire: An Exploratory Look at Machiavelli's Works to Determine His True Political Inclinations (open access)

Machiavelli's 'The Prince' as a Satire: An Exploratory Look at Machiavelli's Works to Determine His True Political Inclinations

This paper discusses a research study on Machiavelli's 'The Prince' as a satire. The author argues that 'The Prince' challenges all of Machiavelli's other works and what we know of his life, and that this inconsistency and the knowledge of Machiavelli's opinions give evidence that perhaps 'The Prince' is a satire.
Date: March 29, 2007
Creator: Kniatt, Stacey & Johnson, Ken
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Luther, Herder and Ranke: The Reformation's Impact on German Idealist Historiography (open access)

Luther, Herder and Ranke: The Reformation's Impact on German Idealist Historiography

The influence of Martin Luther on the Idealist philosophy and historical writing of Johann Gottfried Herder and Leopold Ranke Is part of a broader inquiry into the significant impact of the Protestant Reformation on the modern Western world. Herder and Ranke, whose work In historical research and writing spanned a period from the later eighteenth century to the close of the nineteenth century, represented an Idealist generation which sought a new meaning in human history to replace the view of the Enlightenment.
Date: August 1983
Creator: Cook, Lowell Anthony
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s (open access)

The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s

This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
Date: 2007
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thirty-Six More Americans: An African-American Word Search Book, Volume 2 (open access)

Thirty-Six More Americans: An African-American Word Search Book, Volume 2

Book of word search puzzles that have an African-American history theme.
Date: 1997
Creator: Courts, Mark A.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History