Browsing by Subject "History"
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(2021-08-31)Texas A&M University (TAMU-Aggies), a Senior Military College, was established in 1876 in College Station, Texas, and is ranked No. 3 in the “Top 10 Military Schools in America” (TAMU Today, 2012). The ~2,500 member Texas ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)In 1961, the United States began an experiment in unconventional warfare which ultimately raised a storm of protest throughout the world and helped to destroy the credibility of an American government. Even after the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)Ceramic dispersion, trade routes and pottery production locations were tied to the economy of colonial New Spain. Changes in any of these indicators signaled a change in the status of the whole region. Located just north ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Mexico provided many opportunities for indirect international immigration to the United States between the years 1876 and 1940. The immigrants traveled from their countries of birth, for example China, Japan, Eastern Europe, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)A survey of the literature reveals that the burial and exhumation of the business cycle are themselves cyclical events. The most recent advance in business cycle theory is the "Rational Expectations" school; however, this ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This oral history of Mexican American educators examined the South Texas experience in light of a century-and-a-half of conflict which reflected juxtaposing Anglo Saxon and Chicano ideologies. Texans of Mexican descent who ...
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Black women face three times the risk of dying from a pregnancy-related cause than White women (CDC). This project explored what Black maternal mortality rates (MMR) are like within the state of Texas. It recounts the ...
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(2021-03-23)This dissertation, "Border Intimacies: Student Activism, Reproductive Justice, and Queer Rights in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1968-2000," studies the formation of queer and Chicanx identities in the Lower Rio Grande ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)This dissertation summarizes the methodological views of each of the major participants in the Nineteenth Century British Methodenstreit in Political Economy and isolates those currents in Nineteenth Century economic ...
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(2012-07-16)This thesis examines the methods and actions of selected Virginians who chose to adopt irregular tactics in wartime, and focuses on the reasons why they fought that way. The presence of the Cavalier image in Virginia had ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)Current educational policies regarding equal educational opportunity are confused and often contradictory. To develop better policies, educators need to understand the historical development of the concept of equal opportunity ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)This study of southern presidential voting patterns from 1828 to 1860 and secession balloting in early 1861 provides the political historian with a new window to political behavior in the region. It accounts for varying ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Beginning with European occupancy of the North American continent, man's relation to natural resources was dictated by the wild condition of the land. Nature was viewed as a reluctant treasure which men fought to tame, ...
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(2019-03-27)In 1675, the English government passed a law that established six “trade towns” on Antigua. The law required that all imports, exports, and intra-island trade be conducted in these towns to be assessed for taxes. Of the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)This study attempts to identify the religious norms that governed and continue to govern the development of spatial form in Muslim cities, as a precept to formulating, anew. Islamic urban principles and determining their ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This dissertation analyzes the 635 Spectator papers to determine how they depict women and to see how this depiction compares with those of other contemporary authors. After a look at the historical and literary backgrounds ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study attempts to explain the political developments of Qing China and Tokugawa Japan of the late 19th century from a new perspective, one focused on the elite structure. I argue that neither Marxian nor Weberian ...
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(2012-02-14)When users are searching for documents, they must sift through a collection of potentially relevant documents assessing, categorizing and prioritizing them based on the current task at hand, a process we refer to as document ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)The trials and tribulations of the prohibition movement in Texas between 1887 and 1919 challenge the popular stereotype of evangelical Protestant hegemony in the Lone Star State. Despite the fact that the Texas political ...
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(2021-11-03)The essay that follows explores how the institution of education bred social hierarchy, access to citizenship, and engineered generations-long racism through a case study in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Using Molina’s ...