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Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s (2023)
Journal Article
Ballantyne. (2023). Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s. Journal of American Studies, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875822000299

This article traces the approach of moderate southern Senators toward domestic hunger and welfare in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Often overlooked in scholarly accounts, these Senators formed a significant minority of the southern delegation. Their... Read More about Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s.

The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65) (2022)
Journal Article
Brill. (2022). The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65). Women's Writing, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2022.2089962

Recent historiography has shown how slaveholding white women in the antebellum South United States often played active and eager roles in the administration of slavery and used violence against enslaved persons. Building on this recent historiography... Read More about The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65).

Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896 (2018)
Thesis
Williamson, J. Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410406

This thesis analyses debates over the economic future of postbellum Utah Territory, in order to demonstrate the connection between economic expansion and the promotion of a homogenous ‘American’ identity. Following the American Civil War, a dominant... Read More about Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896.

Liverpool and the Confederate States: Fraser Trenholm and company operations during the American civil war (1996)
Thesis
Hughes, F. (1996). Liverpool and the Confederate States: Fraser Trenholm and company operations during the American civil war. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1192362

This dissertation covers a brief history of Liverpool from the early days up to the start of the American Civil War. The importance of the American Cotton Trade is detailed. Events are then viewed during the war principally through the eyes of Fraser... Read More about Liverpool and the Confederate States: Fraser Trenholm and company operations during the American civil war.

Standing at the crossroads: politics and the hero in black popular music
Thesis
Standing at the crossroads: politics and the hero in black popular music. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414661

Black popular music, since it was first recorded cemmercially in 1920, has, through all its evolving styles, been primarily a vocal music, where lyrical meaning is crucial to its appeal. The music comes but of a racially-defined, lewer-class communit... Read More about Standing at the crossroads: politics and the hero in black popular music.

Single, white and Southern: slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South, 1830-1870
Thesis
Molloy, . M. S. Single, white and Southern: slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South, 1830-1870. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408416

This thesis examines the lives of single, white, slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South from 1830-1870. The central hypothesis is that singleness, in spite of its restrictions, was a route to female autonomy that had its roots in... Read More about Single, white and Southern: slaveholding women in the nineteenth-century American South, 1830-1870.

The New York Times and the Algerian revolution, 1956-1962: an analysis of a major newspaper's reporting of events
Thesis
Barkaoui, M. The New York Times and the Algerian revolution, 1956-1962: an analysis of a major newspaper's reporting of events. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/417310

This thesis examines the response of The New York Times international edition to the Algerian revolution from 1956 to 1962. During the early years the paper took the French official view; however as the inevitability of independence became apparent,... Read More about The New York Times and the Algerian revolution, 1956-1962: an analysis of a major newspaper's reporting of events.

Hawthorne's uses of history: a study of the major fiction, with special reference to the unfinished romances
Thesis
Brady, P. Hawthorne's uses of history: a study of the major fiction, with special reference to the unfinished romances. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/415813

the thesis is concerned to establish the importance of works that, for the main part, have been ignored. Although the neglect or misconception of Hawthorne's historical perspective has led to some questionable judgements of his completed works, perha... Read More about Hawthorne's uses of history: a study of the major fiction, with special reference to the unfinished romances.

American policy towards Algeria between 1940 and 1962
Thesis
Farhat, F. American policy towards Algeria between 1940 and 1962. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/415435

This thesis analyses American policy towards Algeria between 1940 and 1962 with a view to understanding the
essence of the American approach. To that end I have
resorted on the one hand to a comparison of American and Algerian perceptions of Fren... Read More about American policy towards Algeria between 1940 and 1962.

Calhoun and the concept of the "reactionary enlightenment": an examination of the disquisition on government
Thesis
Clarke, J. Calhoun and the concept of the "reactionary enlightenment": an examination of the disquisition on government. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414796

In the 1950s, Louis Hartz drew attention to the curiously paradoxical nature of antebellum Southern political thought by coining the descriptive phrase the "Reactionary Enlightenment". The essence of the paradox lay in the apparent impossibility of c... Read More about Calhoun and the concept of the "reactionary enlightenment": an examination of the disquisition on government.

Recent forces of change affecting radical black American women
Thesis
Recent forces of change affecting radical black American women. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414677

Radical Black American women are creations of a powerful heritage and the cataclysm of the sixties. From these forces a particular individual has emerged. Firstly being black and secondly a woman, she has historically been denied achievement of her f... Read More about Recent forces of change affecting radical black American women.

La Frontera: contesting the cultural construction of the US-Mexico border
Thesis
Powner, L. La Frontera: contesting the cultural construction of the US-Mexico border. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408419

The purpose of this study is to explore the interconnectedness between the history and cultural memory of the United States-Mexico border with a focus on the period 1821 – 1854. In 1821, Mexico gained its independence from Spain; in 1836 it lost its... Read More about La Frontera: contesting the cultural construction of the US-Mexico border.

The recording of the non-classic blues genre, 1923-1942
Thesis
Klima, S. The recording of the non-classic blues genre, 1923-1942. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413689

It remains as historical coincidence that the invention of a recording and reproduction machine occured at a time when the blues, as the first black American secular music, had developed to the stage where the term was in common parlance within black... Read More about The recording of the non-classic blues genre, 1923-1942.

Judicial activism in American government: a study of the role philosophies of Supreme Court justices George Sutherland and William O. Douglas
Thesis
McKeever, R. J. Judicial activism in American government: a study of the role philosophies of Supreme Court justices George Sutherland and William O. Douglas. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413667

The aim of this thesis is to formulate a concept of judicial activism which may be used in the analysis of United States Supreme Court decisions.
Because the methodology employed here departs radically from the behaviouralist approach which has dom... Read More about Judicial activism in American government: a study of the role philosophies of Supreme Court justices George Sutherland and William O. Douglas.

Parchment barriers and budgetary reform: aspects of executive-legislative relations in the Nixon era
Thesis
Dumbrell, J. W. Parchment barriers and budgetary reform: aspects of executive-legislative relations in the Nixon era. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413661

Between 1945 and 1969, discussions and public perceptions of executive-legislative relations were dominated by an intrinsic commitment to the executive branch as the controlling and ascendant partner. During the period of the Nixon Presidency, tradit... Read More about Parchment barriers and budgetary reform: aspects of executive-legislative relations in the Nixon era.

Debate on Yalta: Poland, the Far East, and American domestic politics, 1944-1955
Thesis
Anelay, T. R. Debate on Yalta: Poland, the Far East, and American domestic politics, 1944-1955. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413658

This is a study of the development of the United States debate on two of the Yalta agreements concluded in February 1945 by the Allied leaders, Roosevalt, Churchill and Stalin. The development of these issues of prior to the Yalta Conference is exami... Read More about Debate on Yalta: Poland, the Far East, and American domestic politics, 1944-1955.