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Item A history of Baptist educational efforts in Texas, 1829-1900(1934) Wilson, Carl Bassett, 1901-1938; Eby, Frederick, 1874-1968Item American emotional and imaginative attitudes toward the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, 1803-1850(1940) Smith, Henry Nash; Not availableItem American imperialism in the Southwest, 1800-1837(1932) Stenberg, Richard R.; Barker, Eugene C. (Eugene Campbell), 1874-1956Item Anglo-American activities in northeastern Texas, 1803-1845(1937) Strickland, Rex W. (Rex Wallace), 1897-; Not availableItem "An anti-national disorder" : Antonio Canales and northeastern Mexico, 1836-1852(1994) Ridout, Joseph Benjamin, 1969-; Brown, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Charles), 1942-This study explores regionalism in northeastern Mexico from 1836 to 1852. During the years of the early Republic, Tamaulipas and its neighboring departments sought to resist control by the central government and preserve local autonomy. This program culminated in a separatist revolt from 1838 to 1840 known as the "Republic of the Rio Grande," which proposed that a confederation of northeastern states secede from Mexico and ally with Texas. Antonio Canales, a cacique from the northreastern Mexican frontier who led the uprising, exemplified many of the ambivalent attitudes in the northeast toward the Mexico City administration during this period. Seeking to protect the interests of the northeastern frontier, Canales, at one time, headed the "Rio Grande" separatist revolt, and, later, led the guerrilla resistance to the United States' invasion of the northeast (1846-48). The experience of invasion augured a new era in the northeast, in which the idea of parochial separatism was abandoned, and a greater sense of national identity took holdItem Contextualizing a motif : late nineteenth century portrayals of the German poacher-hero(2011-05) Plummer, Jessica Ellen; Belgum, Kirsten, 1959-; Arens, KatherineThis thesis focuses on the anachronistic poacher-hero figure in late nineteenth-century German literature. Historian Hobsbawm has suggested that the symbolic endurance of "noble robber" figures (of which we can view poacher-heroes as a subset) takes place in an ideal imaginary "stripped" of the "local and social framework" (2000, 143). My thesis shows, in multiple examples across multiple genres, that in fact the poacher-hero is uniquely available for re-contextualization and renewal of social relevance, even under changed social and economic circumstances. The poacher-hero is not only a device for making statements about the past, but also for expressing claims on the future. It is perhaps this dynamism that makes the poacher-hero excellent carrier for different kinds of social critique as well. In my first chapter, I give a brief historical overview of the period and the motif. In the second chapter, I show how the poacher and his rural context are brought into contact with urban, imperial themes. In the chapter I read two novels, Der verlorene Sohn (The prodigal son, 1884-1886) and Quitt (Even, 1890), and the play Waldleute (Forest people, 1896) thematically to show how upward social mobility is associated with and adapted to the poacher figure. In the third chapter of the thesis, I examine narrative strategies and their employment in the construction of a socially critical viewpoint in Der verlorene Sohn and Quitt. I show how both high and low literary works, intended and written for different audiences, achieve similar results in their positioning of the poacher-protagonist through different narrative structures. This convergence shows the malleability of the societal frame for the poacher-hero. Finally, in the fourth chapter, I show regional adaptations of the motif, by examining different versions of a folk ballad "Das Jennerweinlied" ("The Jennerwein song"). This thesis furthermore shows how study of a motif can be used to bring together a diverse group of roughly contemporary texts. Viewing these texts in relationship with one another brings into question the scholarly focus on certain texts at the expense of others.Item Daughters of Ruth : enterprising black women in insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s(2011-05) Garrett-Scott, Shennette Monique; Walker, Juliet E. K., 1940-The dissertation explores the imbricated nature of race, gender, and class in the field of insurance within the political economy of the New South. It considers how enterprising black women navigated tensions between New South rhetoric and Jim Crow reality as well as sexism and racism within the industry and among their industry peers. It complicates the narrative of black southern labor history that focuses more on women as agricultural laborers, domestics, and factory workers than as enterprising risk takers who sought to counterbalance personal ambition and self-interest with communal empowerment. Insurance organizations within black-run secret fraternal societies and formal black-owned insurance companies emerged as not only powerful symbols of black business achievement by the early decades of the twentieth century but also the most lucrative business sector of the separate black economy. Negro Captains of Industry, a coterie of successful, influential, self-made men, stood at the forefront; they represented the keystone of black economic, social, and political progress. The term invoked a decidedly masculinist image of “legitimate” leadership of black business. Considering fraternal and formal insurance, gender-inscribed rhetoric, shaped by racism and New South ideology, imagined black men as the ideal protectors and providers; women became the objects of protection rather than agents of economic development, job creation, and financial security. The dissertation explores how women operated creatively within and outside of normative expectations of their role in the insurance business. The dissertation considers the role of state regulation and zealous regulators who often targeted insurance organizations and companies, the primary symbols of black business success; in other ways, regulation dramatically improved profitability and stability. The dissertation identifies three key periods: the Pre-Regulatory Era, 1890s to 1906; the Era of Regulation, 1907-World War I; and the Professionalization of Black Insurance, Post-WWI to the Great Depression. It also considers the barriers to black women’s involvement in professional organizations. By the late 1930s, enterprising women in insurance lost ground as fraternal insurance waned in influence and as the strongest proponents of the black separate economy promoted a vision that embraced women as consumers rather than business owners.Item The effect of railroad development upon the internal commerce of the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1831-1886(1929) Waller, John L., 1889-1978; Ramsdell, Charles W. (Charles William), 1877-1942Item The emergence of Veblen's distinction between industrial and pecuniary employments(1933) Hodges, John R., 1908-1986; Not availableItem Even in their dresses the females seem to bid us defiance : Boston women and performance 1762-1823(2008-12) Kokai, Jennifer Anne; Canning, Charlotte, 1964-This dissertation constructs a cultural history of women's performances in Boston from 1762-1823, using materialist feminism and ethnohistory. I look at how "woman" was historically understood at that time, and how women used those discourses to their advantage when constructing performances that allowed them to intervene in political culture. I examine a broad range of performance activities from white, black, and Native American women of all classes. Chapter two discusses three of Boston's elite female intellectuals: Mercy Otis Warren, Judith Sargent Murray, and Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton. Though each woman's writings have been examined individually, I examine them as a community. With the connections and public recognition they built, they helped found the Federal Street Theatre where they could have a ventrioloquized embodied performance for their ideas on women's rights, abolition, and political parties. Chapter three looks at the construction of three solo performances: Phillis Wheatley performing her poetry in 1772; the 1802 theatre tour of Deborah Sampson Gannett, who fought as a man in the revolution; and the monologues and wax effigy creations of Patience Lovell Wright circa 1772. These women depended on their performances for sustenance, and in Wheatley's case, to secure her freedom from bondage. I look at the way these women created a mythology about themselves and crafted a marketable image, both on and off the stage. In particular, I examine the ways each grappled with a charged discourse surrounding their bodies. In chapter four I look at fashion as performance. I explore homespun dresses as political propaganda, Native American and black women's use of clothing to express cultural pride that white Anglo society had attempted to erase, and the way that women used mourning costumes to perform and create nationalism at the mock funerals held for Washington after he died in 1799. In my conclusion I contrast the 2008 miniseries John Adams with a solo performance of Phillis Wheatley. I briefly trace the trajectory of the history of women during this time. I argue that focusing on performance identifies and legitimizes other sources of evidence and locates examples of women's agency in shaping popular culture.Item From Winckelmann to Wilde : masculinity and the historical poetics of nineteenth-century British Hellenism(2018-05) Spitzer-Hanks, Dorrel Thomas, III; Wojciehowski, Hannah Chapelle, 1957-; Hoad, Neville Wallace, 1966-; Baker, Samuel; King, Josh; MacKay, CarolThis dissertation is a survey of nineteenth-century British Hellenism in texts authored between 1768 and 1895 by elite, bourgeois, and working-class people both female and male. Beginning in 18th-century Germany, the dissertation tracks the influence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann on nineteenth-century British Hellenism, asserting that there is a characteristic cluster of representational attributes visible in British Hellenist texts that display a shared ideological emphasis. Winckelmann, who rose from humble beginnings to become the Vatican’s prefect of antiquities, bequeathed a systematic art-historical approach to classical Greek art that became an idealist discourse of British Greekness through the influence of the annual lectures given by Sir Joshua Reynolds, founding president of the Royal Academy of Art, to students between 1768 and 1792. Posthumously the ‘Grand Style’ aesthetics Reynolds promulgated became highly politicized, its influence clear in the debates surrounding the parliamentary purchase of the Parthenon Marbles from Lord Elgin in 1816, in the poetry, prose, art and architecture of the 1820s and 1830s, in specific exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851, in the anthropological debates touched off by Darwin’s Origins of Species after 1859, and in Oscar Wilde’s fin-de-siécle advocacy of Dress Reform and his reformed, Reynoldsian aesthetic idealism. Particularly during Oscar Wilde’s 1895 trials, the political valence of nineteenth-century British Hellenism is inescapable, being explicitly enunciated in Wilde’s famous “The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name” speech, but I argue throughout that nineteenth-century British Hellenism tends to create ‘enfigurations’ of subjectivity that constrain those who adopt them through insistent reference to an ideal subjectivity that is embodied in white, abled, elite, heterosexual male bodies resembling those found in classical Greek art. Thus I show that while the political valence of nineteenth-century British Hellenism could be contested, the terms of the debate remained fixed around an unmarked yet hypervisible central term, which fixity acted to foreclose radical political change throughout the nineteenth century, and particularly in the 1890s, when British sexological debates made the figure of the modern male homosexual visible at the same time that campaigns for tolerance of homosexuality were energetically quashedItem History of Colorado Territory(1932) McGee, Lee Albert; Ramsdell, Charles W. (Charles William), 1877-1942Item The history of Galveston to 1865(1924) Webb, Jesse Owen; Barker, Eugene C. (Eugene Campbell), 1874-1956Item The history of the German settlements in Texas, 1831-1861(1928) Biesele, Rudolph Leopold, 1886-1960; Barker, Eugene C. (Eugene Campbell), 1874-1956Item A history of the state school system in Texas, 1876-1884(1946) Lewis, Leonard, 1895-; Eby, Frederick, 1874-1968Item Latin America's 19th Century (Mostly Mexico): Formation of State, Subject and Self(2018) Aparicio, Brittney; Bain, Michael; Blair, Alec; Cespedes Barron, Américo; Foster, Brandi; Gaudet, Brett; Guizado, Diana; Hallas, Laura; Kamineni, Hansika; Lumley, Christian; Ramirez, Nathan; Rios, Christian; Sorrells, Carlie; Tombs, Rachel; Wood, MatthewThis exhibit is a culmination of UT students’ collaborative effort to select, curate, and digitize original documents held in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection that reveal the region’s tumultuous and transformative 19th-century journeys towards the formation (s) of State, Subject and Self.Item Latin America's 19th Century: A Work in Progress(2017-12-11) Aryaputri, Dinda; Avanzato, Jacob; Barnett, Colin; Demes, Anastasia; Denaro, Alyssa; Hobbs, Ryan; Morales, Max; Orozco Medina, Luis Carlos; Salazar Martinez, Fernando; Talamantes, Liliana; Tumey, Madison; Wilk, KathrynThis exhibit is a culmination of UT students’ collaborative effort to select, curate, and digitize original documents held in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection that reveal the region’s tumultuous and transformative 19th-century journeys towards modernity.Item Life and times of Arthur Goodall Wavell(1950) Amsler, Robert Witt, 1915-; Not availableItem Life of Ben McCulloch(1947) Gunn, Jack Winton; Not availableItem Louisiana politics, 1845-1861(1927) Greer, James K.; Not available