Browsing by Subject "Civil War"
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Civil Resistance or Rebellion: The Impact of Country-Level Factors on Revolutionary Strategy
(2013)This paper constitutes a partial answer to the question of when politicalresistance campaigns that use primarily violent or nonviolent strategies occur. In doing so, it attempts to bridge the gap between discussions of rebellion ... -
Coequal Heirs: The Civil War, Memory, and German-American Identity, 1861-1914
(2015-05-22)Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, German-Americans took up arms in defense of their adopted country. The German-American community in 1861 was incredibly diverse, and notions of shared German identity were secondary ... -
Cold and Calculated Faith
(2011-04-26)The former USSR and the Eastern Bloc contain a plethora of ethnicities, religions, and languages that make up nations. However, the nations are not concurrent with their state boundaries, and separatist conflicts are common. ... -
Communicative Structure and the Emergence of Armed Conflict
(2008-04-22)The goal of this dissertation is to provide a logically coherent and empirically grounded account of the relationships between collective communication, collective loyalties, and collective violence. Drawing on research ... -
Geographies of Freedom: Black Women's Mobility and the Making of the Western River World, 1814-1865
(2018)Geographies of Freedom explores the ways in which free and enslaved black women pursued freedom for themselves and their families in the middle Mississippi River Valley using the law and uniquely gendered access to forms ... -
Identifying Collaborative Opportunities for Environmental Conservation and Historic Preservation
(2012-04-26)Efforts to preserve open space in the United States have been conducted by land trusts, government programs, and private landowners. Most land trusts protect specific resources or environmental values, such as wetlands or ... -
In the Shadow of Rivalry: Rebel Alliances and Civil War
(2013)How does competition and rivalry within alliances affect outcomes and processes in civil wars? Towards addressing this inquiry, this dissertation presents a formal theory of alliance formation that takes into account both ... -
The End of Civilizations: The Role of Religion in the Evolution of Subnational Conflict, 1946-2007
(2010)Conflict between states in an anarchic international system is generally the result of an inability among state leaders to successfully negotiate perceived power imbalances within the system. Interstate conflicts are relatively ... -
Troy in America: Soldier Suicide in American War Literature
(2021)Troy in America: Soldier Suicide in American War Literature attempts to illuminate how a war mentality forces an acceptance of mortality that not only brings out the irrationality of life itself, but also makes suicide more ...
