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Settlement House Scenes: Migrants and the Performing Arts in Transatlantic Perspective
(2016-05-10)
This dissertation examines the transatlantic history of the settlement house movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has two foci. The first is the origin of the settlement movement, in Britain; ...
THE CINÉ “NEVER SETS…”: BRITISH CINEMA AS A TRANSATLANTIC CULTURAL COMMODITY, 1927-1938
(2016-05-10)
This dissertation exemplifies how the application of a transatlantic commodity approach can broaden understanding of film as a mass medium, its business, and its cultural influences. By employing a more inclusive national ...
The Battle Over Identity: Finnish-Americans and the Finnish Civil War
(2020-03-19)
Historical research on Finnish migration and Finnish-Americans has, until recently, been carried out by members of the Finnish-American community and as such has written out the role of Finnish-Americans in the radical ...
Cornflakes, God, and Circumcision: John Harvey Kellogg and Transatlantic Health Reform
(2019-05-09)
The health reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth century impacted American and European societies in profound ways. These reforms, while usually represented in a national context, existed within a transatlantic ...
THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD: ENGLAND’S TRANSATLANTIC INTERESTS DURING THE REIGN OF HENRY VIII
(2019-05-07)
This dissertation explores the birth of the English Atlantic by looking at English activities and discussions of the Atlantic world from roughly 1481-1560. Rather than being disinterested in exploration during the reign ...