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Red Meat Republic: The Rise of the Cattle-Beef Complex, 1865-1906
(2014-06-06)
"Red Meat Republic: The Rise of the Cattle-Beef Complex, 1865-1906," examines the consolidation of the American meatpacking and ranching industries. Supplying urban consumers with inexpensive beef required a form of ...
Soul Sleepers: A History of Somnambulism in the United States, 1740-1840
(2014-06-06)
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Melancholy Landscapes: Writing Warfare in the American Revolution
(2013-03-06)
Though the American Revolutionary Army is often portrayed as a crucible of national feeling, this study of 169 diaries reveals that Revolutionary soldiers barely understood, or accepted as part of their community, large ...
Free to Move? The Law and Politics of Internal Migration in Twentieth-Century America
(2013-09-23)
The history of the United States in the mid-twentieth century is, in significant measure, a history of internal migration. Between 1930 and 1970, as national quota laws kept the nation's foreign-born population at record ...
Disposable Subjects: Law and Child Migration to the United States, 1890s-1920s
(2022-03-17)
Disposable Subjects argues that foreign-born minors at the US border found themselves increasingly at the disposal of others, first and foremost the state, from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s. It explores the ...
The Voyage of the Scientific Beagle: Dogs in the Physical and Biomedical Sciences
(2021-09-08)
For as long as scientists have experimented with animals, dogs have held a central position. This dissertation offers the first comprehensive history of canine experimentation through a global account of the emergence of ...
The Contradictions of Cultural Reform: Progressive Colonial Anthropology in the US and Mexico, 1930-1975
(2021-09-09)
This dissertation tells the history of progressive colonial anthropology, an ultimately-failed effort to establish cultural anthropologists as authoritative indigenous affairs policy experts in the Americas. Tracing this ...
Cold War Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Military Spending, 1947-1990
(2022-06-06)
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Cold War Capitalism
The Political Economy of American Military Spending, 1947-1990
Everyone knows that the relationship between capital and the state was transformed by the Great Depression, but historians of ...
Meritocracy in America, 1885–2007
(2020-08-28)
This dissertation is the first history of meritocracy in the United States. Despite its roots in the eighteenth century, and its growth in the nineteenth century, the family of discourses and practices that would become ...
Ghost Hospitals: A History of Rural Hospitals and Efforts to Keep Them Alive in the 20th Century United States
(2023-05-10)
In the early 2000s, American journalists reported an emerging crisis of rural hospital closures in the United States. Rural people despaired that a hospital closure heralded the death of their community—not only in terms ...