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    Contrasting portraits: San Antonio v. Rodriguez and the emergent equal protection ideal 

    Finch, Barbara L. S. (1998)
    "Contrasting Portraits" is the history of Rodriguez, the Texas school finance case from 1968 to 1973. The thesis places the case within three contexts: Texas education, Mexican-American rights, and equal protection. Rodriguez ...
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    Between prescription and proscription: Adoption, kafala, and abandoned children in Morocco 

    Bargach, Jamila (1998)
    Conventional interpretations agree that Islamic jurisprudence officially prohibits adoption. Anthropologists have thus tended to presume that adoption does not exist in the Muslim world. This dissertation explores a ...
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    "Separate and apart": Women's public lives in a rural southern county, 1837-1873 

    Boswell, Angela (1998)
    Nineteenth-century American ideologies and cultural prescriptions dictated that women leave the public sphere responsibilities of business, law, and politics to men. However, statutes throughout the United States allowed ...
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    Studies in French cultural and intellectual history 

    Bernard, Lauren S. (1998)
    Four topics in the cultural and intellectual history of France are presented. The first is a comparative study examining the relationship between seventeenth-century philosophy and literature. It argues that elements of ...
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    Essays in European and American intellectual history 

    Hedstrom, Elizabeth Eleanor (1998)
    The first essay, "Contested Languages of Order: Burke and Wollstonecraft in the Revolution Controversy," argues that Edmund Burke's and Mary Wollstonecraft's 1790 debate over the French Revolution brought into focus two ...
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    The move is on: African-American Pentecostal-Charismatics in the Southwest 

    Kossie, Karen Lynell (1998)
    This study is an interdisciplinary history the African American Pentecostal-Charismatic (AAPC) movement in the twentieth century. It aims to place the rise of African American Pentecostal-Charismaticism within the context ...
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    Private choices vs. public voices: The history of Planned Parenthood in Houston 

    Anderson, Maria Helen (1998)
    Over the past half century the name Planned Parenthood has become a household term. As its leadership has struggled to create and maintain its identity and to keep it financially afloat, the organization has evolved. This ...
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    Selling without substance: Fraud, feminization, and the foundations of consumer culture in nineteenth-century England 

    Whitlock, Tammy Christina (1998)
    This dissertation focuses on women, consumer culture, and crime in England in the early to later nineteenth century (1800-1880). As England's textile industry produced goods, especially cotton, on a larger and cheaper ...
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    Manly acts: Buenos Aires, 24 March 1996 

    Tobin, Jeffrey P. (1998)
    Ethnographic fieldwork and writing are employed to explore how men in Buenos Aires construct and contest masculinity. The fieldwork is focused on three sites of manly performance: asado (Argentine barbecue), soccer, and ...
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    William Louis Poteat, "A thinker in the South": Religion, reform, and education in the Progressive-Era South 

    Hall, Randal Lee (1998)
    William Louis Poteat (1856-1938) was a prominent educator, Progressive reformer, and leader in the Baptist denomination in North Carolina. He was the son of a slaveholder and grew up on a large tobacco plantation in Caswell ...

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    AuthorAnderson, Maria Helen (1)Bargach, Jamila (1)Bernard, Lauren S. (1)Boswell, Angela (1)Finch, Barbara L. S. (1)Hall, Randal Lee (1)Hedstrom, Elizabeth Eleanor (1)Kossie, Karen Lynell (1)Tobin, Jeffrey P. (1)Whitlock, Tammy Christina (1)AdvisorBoles, John B. (3)Davidson, Chandler (1)Faubion, James D. (1)Marcus, George E. (1)Sherman, Daniel J. (1)Wiener, Martin J. (1)Wolin, Richard (1)SubjectAmerican history (5)Cultural anthropology (3)European history (3)Sociology (3)Women's studies (3)Ethnic studies (2)Modern history (2)Biographies (1)Black history (1)Church history (1)... View MoreDate Issued
    1998 (10)
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    DisciplineHumanities (10)Degree LevelDoctoral (7)Masters (3)Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy (7)Master of Arts (3)

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