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- Creator:
- Kurak, Ivana
- Description:
- The author's research began with these questions: How far away from social norms did the hippies go regarding gender roles? Were women ever freed from these expectations? What did family life on the communes look like? This research argues that counterculture women were practicing gender equality through social and economic means resulting from communal living. Mainstream society had regulated gender roles to the public sphere and the domestic sphere. Communes represented a third sphere, a new experimental ground safe from mainstream criticisms and economic pressures. This thesis explores everyday women's lives in the counterculture and the complex roles they created within these new societies. This form of inquiry will help fill the historiographical void that revolves around hippie women living on communes.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Huanaco, Miguel
- Description:
- There have been many scholarly works written about Mexico’s Movimiento de Acción Revolucionaria (MAR) or revolutionary action movement; however, there has never been a scholarly work written about its founder Professor Gómez Souza. Ninety percent of the scholarly works written about the MAR are only available in Spanish, limiting their distribution to a broader audience of non-Spanish readers and restricting their research availability for scholars. I saw the need to both write a scholarly work about Professor Gomez Souza and to add to the existing literature about the MAR for a broader audience. This MA thesis project is ninety-percent archival, gathered and translated from Spanish declarations of formerly imprisoned MAR militants. Yet completing research on Mexico’s Dirty War was not easy because accessing archival records about the MAR and Professor Gómez Souza is difficult. The Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) archives have been sealed, and they were briefly unsealed during the Vicente Fox presidency in 2002, only to be partially resealed again at the end of his presidency. The archival declarations used for this project come to us at a costly price. DFS agents extracted testimonials from MAR militants after hours of questioning and torture, which raises the question about the accuracy of these declarations. However, these archives are all that the historical community has, and we will use them as a window into Professor Fabricio Gómez Souza and the MAR. The archives used were gathered from the Archivo General de la Nación, and donated by Guerrero’s ex-truth commission, or (COMVERDAD) and are now compiled on a non-profit online database for the world to read the injustices of the Dirty War.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Bohan, Andrew A.
- Description:
- This thesis provides an analysis of the development and maturation of a Catholic middle class in Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Boyle, Tracey
- Description:
- After the Second World War, Europe lay in ruins. European Federalists aimed to rebuild Europe by uniting it. They wanted individual national governments to cede authority to a European union that could provide stimulus to economic growth and stop nationalistic rivalries from bringing war to Europe again. Ideally, they planned to create the United States of Europe with a constitution and parliament. The European Union (EU) became possible in 1993 due to the hard work and endless networking of eleven European Federalists considered “founding fathers” of the EU. Two of these men, Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet, were responsible for the precursor to the EU, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1950. Extensive personal networking and back-door negotiations were needed to achieve this humble start to the European Union. My thesis argues that after the Second World War, European Federalists also worked in a cultural, on-the-ground manner to generate support among citizens for EU structures. They calculated political and social pressure from voters would force European leaders to unite. They encouraged dialogue and debate among citizens in the hopes that this education and civic mindedness would contribute to European integration. They focused on youth outreach, youth education and youth travel between European nations by creating the European Youth Campaign from 1951-1958. However, Federalist aims to unite Europe were not the only forces shaping early EU structures. Individual countries retained their nationalistic agendas and often placed these above the goal of European integration. The ultimate design of Federalist structures and Federalist youth programs reflected a compromise with nationalistic policies. This thesis puts Federalist activities in their historical framework to reveal this compromise. This thesis takes an in-depth view of the European Youth Campaign (EYC). The EYC targeted youth and cultural institutions to generate support for the EU. This youth organization demonstrated a deeper, cultural approach to fending off Soviet influence and promoting European integration. I analyze the activities and management of the EYC. This thesis argues that youth were not simple pawns in European politics. Partly due to the EYC, youth became a dynamic force in European politics and international relations. To understand the evolution of the EYC, this thesis reviews the effective strategies the EYC took from prior Federalist organizations during the interwar and resistance period. European leaders began to appreciate the need for policies aimed at youth to tackle large political and social problems. Communist youth festivals prodded the European Federalists to develop their own youth outreach. England during the Second World War and Occupied Germany were fertile ground for the networking and discussions on education reform that led to the formation of the EYC. The use of archival resources on the EYC and the focus on youth and culture in this thesis is an important contribution to European Union studies.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- History
5. From the death of eagles to the coming of wolves: the creation of post-Roman Britain 400-600 C.E.
- Creator:
- Doherty, Bryan
- Description:
- This Research explores the transition from post-Roman British to Anglo-Saxon as the dominant culture of England took place between the fifth and seventh centuries by utilizing the disciplines of history and archaeology. Studying cultures without a written tradition or limited primary sources such as the two studied in this research, results in a great limitation of evidence. Without any direct written records to assist them or only very few, historians turn to ethnohistorical methods, requiring them to filter through culture biases and issues of intended audience, genre, and intent of the text to find clues as to the nature of certain historical events and cultural aspects of interest. Archaeology supplies a great wealth of knowledge as to related material culture but suffers due to the disconnection between archaeological and historical scholarly literature. What has been revealed through research combining these two disciplines is a long-standing narrative of the British peoples not having agency in their own history. The narrative of both disciplines until the 2000’s, was that Britain was conquered and occupied by Rome, and then quickly fell into chaos after Rome’s exodus in the early fifth century. It was then quickly conquered by Anglo-Saxons by the beginning of the sixth century as most of the material culture dated to the sixth century was classified as Anglo- Saxon. Recent Archaeological research, however, namely that of Francis Pryor, James Gerrad, and Stuart Laycock suggest a counter narrative; one in which the British peoples had a direct and dramatic influence on the changes in Britain of the late fourth to sixth centuries. This narrative has been formed by challenging three major elements of the narrative conquest: Pryor argues that elements of British culture survived and thrived in the late days of the Roman occupation and returned in many ways to a pre-Roman Britain after the Roman exodus. Gerrad challenges the notion of an economic collapse when the Roman influence in Britain collapsed and bolsters Pryor’s argument of a fiercely independent Britain after the Roman occupation in an examination of a resurgence of a pastoral and agricultural focused economy practiced in pre-Roman Britain. Laycock adds to this narrative of British agency by arguing that it was British tribal conflicts, not necessarily invading Germanic peoples that shaped Britain in the late fourth through sixth centuries. This new narrative of British agency will be investigated and combined with the argument that the transition from post-Roman British to Anglo-Saxon as the dominant culture in Britain during the Migration Era was not the result of conquest but of cultural integration and assimilation. This argument will focus on three major elements of study: The rise of British power and influence in the waning years of the Roman occupation and the formation of a fiercely independent Britain in the decades following the Roman exodus. It will be followed by an intensive investigation and challenge to the founding of Kent, which according to the invasion narrative was the first seat of power in the Anglo- Saxon conquest. Finally, a comparison of settlement patterns and land management between British and Anglo-Saxon cultures will be examined to challenge the invasion narrative on a country wide scale.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Del Gallego, John A.
- Description:
- This thesis is a study of the eschatological message of Paul of Tarsus, and how it changed over time. In addition, the author attempts to explain why the message changed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- History