Browsing by Author "Bohanan, Donna"

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Charles I and His Public: Religious Ideology, Political Discourse, and Ceremony, 1625-1633

Faucett, Joseph (2010-07-21)

This thesis looks at public debate and ceremony in the early reign of Charles I from 1625 to 1633. It analyzes the various uses of the language of “public” and “private” in the publically aired religious and political ...

Cherokees, Creeks, and Charlestonians: The Colonial World of James Grant, 1757-1771

McGaughy, Joseph T (2020-04-15) ETD File Embargoed

The following study provides a revisionist interpretation of the career of James Grant, an officer in the British army during the French and Indian War (1754-1763), and subsequently governor of the new colony of East Florida ...

A Garden for the Living and a Gallery for the Dead: Consuming Animal and Preserved Specimen Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century London

Humphrey, Neil (2018-04-18)

Throughout the nineteenth century, a diverse array of wildlife arrived in London, the center of both a nation and a global empire. Once in Britain, live animals were exhibited for adoring, middle- and upper-class audiences ...

Getting the News and Getting Ahead: Correspondence and News Culture in Early Stuart England

Jones, Yvette (2015-05-11)

In early seventeenth-century England, court politics and the spread of news were closely connected. Many outside of James I’s inner political circle were deeply concerned with what was happening at the center of power. ...

"In Time of Iron-Age: The Choctaw Civil War and the Southern Frontier

Sparacio, Matthew (2018-04-23)

This dissertation is the first extended ethnohistorical study of the Choctaw civil war that occurred between 1746 and 1750 CE. Using gender as a primary lens of inquiry, it outlines the mutual intelligibility of Choctaw ...

Laying their own Track: Provincial Cities and Urban Development in France, 1851-1918

Bryant, Lauren (2013-05-16)

This thesis examines the role of the railway station in the development and transformation of the provincial city in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, in terms of its effect on the relationship of ...

Louise Blanchad Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York (1881-1905)

Hays, Johanna (2007-08-15)

Jennie Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913) was America’s first professional woman architect at a time when few women chose careers except when faced with economic necessity. The only child of teachers, Bethune’s education ...

'A Louse For A Portion': Early-Eighteenth-Century English Attitudes Towards Scots, 1688-1725

McGaughy, Joseph (2008-05-15)

This thesis examines and analyzes Englishmen’s perceptions of Scots during the years between the Revolution of 1688 and the Shawfield Riots of 1725. In 1707, the Scottish Parliament convened for the last time and Scottish ...

The Mental Universe of the English Nonjurors

Klein, John (2015-05-08)

The Glorious Revolution of 1688, which pushed James II from the throne of England, was not glorious for everyone; in fact, for many, it was a great disaster. Those who had already taken an oath of allegiance to James II ...

The Opposition Court of Henry, Prince of Wales, in the Reign of James I, 1610-1612

Barronton, Joshua (2010-04-08)

Henry Frederick Stuart, eldest son of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark, died at the age of eighteen after only two years as Prince of Wales. In his short life he developed a large following and served as the focal point ...

The Other Beecher: Laura Beecher Comer, Plantation Mistress and Daughter of the Confederacy, 1846-1900

Dennis, Carol Ann (2012-11-16)

This dissertation explores the life of Laura Beecher Comer (1817-1900), which spanned the tumultuous nineteenth century in America. For most of her adult life, Laura resided in what would be the heart of the Confederacy ...

The Scottish Episcopal Church: Religious Conflict in the Late Stuart Period

Fox, Paul, II (2013-07-17)

In 1689 the Scottish Parliament overthrew the Church of Scotland’s Episcopal government and replaced it with a Presbyterian church structure. Traditionally, historians have interpreted these events as evidence of the ...

The Sehoy Legacy: Kinship, Gender, and Property in a Tensaw Creek Community, 1783-1851

Colvin, Mary Alexandrea (2019-04-18)

In 1783, Alexander McGillivray and his sister, Sophia Durant, migrated to the Tensaw Delta with a herd of cattle and forty enslaved laborers to establish a plantation on the periphery of Creek territory adjoining Spanish ...