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The North American Indians and the Establishment of European Empires 1519-1676 (open access)

The North American Indians and the Establishment of European Empires 1519-1676

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the rise of Spanish, English, and French colonialism in the Americas, the conflicts that arose with the native populations, and alliances between the colonists and various tribes.
Date: March 23, 1996
Creator: Lovette, John
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sports: Political Influence on International Competition (open access)

Sports: Political Influence on International Competition

Theses written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the role of politics in international sports (especially the Olympics), conflict within Iraq, and conflict within Northern Ireland. Newspaper clippings regarding Iraq and Northern Ireland are included.
Date: Spring 1998
Creator: Wilson, Christy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Effect of Foreign Sponsorship on Peace Duration (open access)

We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Effect of Foreign Sponsorship on Peace Duration

Paper explores the effect of foreign sponsorship on the likelihood of civil war reoccurance.
Date: 2013
Creator: Roberts, Jordan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps (open access)

Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps

This paper explores the relationship between the locations of conflict zones and refugee camps in African nations.
Date: 2014
Creator: Bolte, Brandon L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decentralization and Conflict: The Missing Link in State Capacity Literature (open access)

Decentralization and Conflict: The Missing Link in State Capacity Literature

Paper explores the relationship between decentralization and the onset of civil wars.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fan, Derick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Outliving the Past: The Effect of Colonial Legacy on Mass Killings (open access)

Outliving the Past: The Effect of Colonial Legacy on Mass Killings

Paper investigates the effect of colonial legacy on brutality seen during post-colonial civil wars.
Date: 2013
Creator: Wood, Colin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A Case Study of Ku Klux Konfederatism in Denton County Texas, 1850-1930 (open access)

Legacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A Case Study of Ku Klux Konfederatism in Denton County Texas, 1850-1930

Undergraduate thesis exploring modern American racism as the result of the nation's legacy of theological white supremacy and its deep-rooted racial issues that remain unresolved because of the theo-mythologies embedded at the core of the nation's foundational fabric that have been and continue to be largely unaccounted for in corrective racial discourse through a case study of Denton, Texas. By employing localized interdisciplinary methodological approaches aimed at unveiling the theo-myth which underscores the modern American racial ontology, this study examines how theological white supremacy was homogenized into popular culture in Denton County Texas following the Civil War via neo-Confederate Ku Klux Klan movement, which the author calls Ku Klux Konfederatism, that continues its influence today through localized theo-political institutions, sociocultural systems and cultural 'norms.'
Date: April 20, 2020
Creator: Luther Rummel, Jessica Rae
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photography in Colonial and Postcolonial India as an Agent of Cultural Dominance (open access)

Photography in Colonial and Postcolonial India as an Agent of Cultural Dominance

This paper discusses research on the use of photography in colonial India.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Joyce, Megan & Owen, Lisa N.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions (open access)

Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions

Paper analyzes the correlation between the size of a peacekeeping force and the likelihood of peacekeeping failures.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fink, Frances Reka
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
We’re Not Gonna Take It: The Impact of Societal Support on Conflict Onset (open access)

We’re Not Gonna Take It: The Impact of Societal Support on Conflict Onset

Paper analyzes the effect of societal support on the likelihood of civil conflict.
Date: 2013
Creator: Dietrich, Nicholas
Object Type: Article
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
Discord is Beauty; Silence is Beast: Dissent in Authoritarian Regimes (open access)

Discord is Beauty; Silence is Beast: Dissent in Authoritarian Regimes

Paper explores the link between types of authoritarian regimes and violent and nonviolent dissent.
Date: 2013
Creator: Copeland, D.K.
Object Type: Article
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
The Political Economy of Political Survival: External Debt Accumulation and Default during Civil Conflict (open access)

The Political Economy of Political Survival: External Debt Accumulation and Default during Civil Conflict

Paper explores the consequences of the aggregation of national debt by states during and immediately after a civil conflict.
Date: 2014
Creator: Alley, Josh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Personification of Grief in Dostoevsky's The Idiot (open access)

Personification of Grief in Dostoevsky's The Idiot

Undergraduate thesis exploring Fyodor Dostoevsky's portrayal of grief in his work, "The Idiot". When examining a work of art, it is crucial to look at the context surrounding the composition. "The Idiot" presents a fascinating example, in that Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this novel immediately following the death of his five-month-old daughter, Sofya. This thesis examines the historical background, grief in Russian society, religious grief and guilt, grief in the characterization, and cyclical grief.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Teel, Haley
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anachronistic Anarchy: A Linguistic Character Analysis of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo (open access)

Anachronistic Anarchy: A Linguistic Character Analysis of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo

Paper analyzes how linguistic tokens contribute to character design, personality, and development in the Japanese anime Samurai Champloo.
Date: 2014
Creator: Park, Macy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strange, Bizarre, Insane, and Inhumane (open access)

The Strange, Bizarre, Insane, and Inhumane

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the mental health of characters in several stories, such as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies. The author intends to show that the behavior of these characters was caused by influences of their societies.
Date: Summer 1995
Creator: Milacek-Dahl, Stacy L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charting Cultural Changes Through the Movie Adaptations of The Three Musketeers (open access)

Charting Cultural Changes Through the Movie Adaptations of The Three Musketeers

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the differences between film adaptations of The Three Musketeers and the novel while placing each adaptation within the historical context of the decade in which it was created.
Date: Autumn 2001
Creator: Fee, Jeremy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heritage and Innovation of Harmony: A Study of West Side Story (open access)

Heritage and Innovation of Harmony: A Study of West Side Story

Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing West Side Story, its history, its contributors, and the innovative musical numbers therein.
Date: Spring 2006
Creator: Miller, Nathan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library