Browsing Duke Dissertations by Subject "U"

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Genealogies of Attention: the Emergence of US Hegemony, 1870 -1929

Pilatic, Heather Nicole (2008-04-25)

<p>This dissertation is at once a historical study of the emergence of U.S. hegemony through the lens of discourses and techniques of attention, and a sustained series of methodological reflections centering on how to write ...
Shackled in the Garden: Ecology and Race in American Plantation Cultures

Rusert, Britt Marie (2009)

<p>Even in our contemporary moment, the word plantation evokes a distinctly Southern and rural image in which slavery is well hidden within an idyllic botanical scene. And yet, from the very beginning of industrialization ...