Historyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1410982024-03-28T20:39:33Z2024-03-28T20:39:33ZCataloging the nation : explorations and the incorporation of North Patagonia into the Chilean National Ordering, 1856-1902Etchegaray, Javier Luishttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2135102020-01-22T23:35:37Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZCataloging the nation : explorations and the incorporation of North Patagonia into the Chilean National Ordering, 1856-1902
Etchegaray, Javier Luis
Between 1856 and 1902, agents of the Chilean state carried out the first exploration
voyages into Chilean Northern Patagonia in a slow and disjointed attempt to survey these
regions which were virtually unknown at the time and where the state had no effective
presence. The corpus of explorations carried out during this period, in addition to works
written in the capital that commented on these, make up a catalog of the people, land,
water, flora, and fauna of North Patagonia at the time. This catalog evidences the
relationship that explorers and their reports had to a process of national expansion
towards this region during this period. At the same time, it can be seen as the first attempt
to incorporate North Patagonia into the Chilean territorial ordering. Finally, this catalog
evidences the relationship of science and the institutions of knowledge in Chile at the
time to a project of national territorial consolidation. All in all, the catalog of explorations
to North Patagonia resulted in the early incorporation of this region into the general idea
of the Chilean nation.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZSuperman says you can slap a jap : race and representation in comicsWoodbury, Margaret Elizabethhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1972882020-01-22T23:35:52Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZSuperman says you can slap a jap : race and representation in comics
Woodbury, Margaret Elizabeth
This purpose of this project is to place mainstream American comics firmly in a historical
context in order to analyze ideas of race, gender, and politics from the late 1930s to the
end of the 1970s. Using popular heroes, the background of writers, and an understanding
of 20th century U.S. history, this study argues that these comics were a racial project: a
purposeful attempt by writers, distributers, and artists to shape discourse on race, identity,
and a desired political and social structure. The racial project of comics shifted and
evolved during this time period from a white supremacist world view to a more positive
and culturally significant one influenced and shaped by white understanding of the civil
rights movements that affected the United States in the mid-20th century. While the
efforts of companies like DC and Marvel were meant to evoke a sympathetic view of
minorities through representation and plot lines that revolved around social issues of the
time, the subsequent stories and characters were still trapped within a framework of
stereotypes and racial ized ideas about people of color.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZAmerican Trotskyism and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party from origins to 1936Boorman, Nicolas Dylanhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1960092020-01-22T23:35:35Z2017-01-01T00:00:00ZAmerican Trotskyism and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party from origins to 1936
Boorman, Nicolas Dylan
The American Trotskyist movement was founded in part on proletarian class opposition
to all capitalist parties, including two-class “farmer-labor” parties. While they had
incompletely assimilated the fundamental difference between a “labor” and “farmerlabor”
party, they effectively treated the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party as the class
enemy during the 1934 Teamster strikes. However, in late 1934 they began an
opportunist adaptation toward the FLP and joined a class-collaborationist bloc with FLP
politicians and local union leaders. In the spring of 1935, the Trotskyists gave the FLP
critical electoral support and simultaneously launched the Northwest Organizer, the
mouthpiece of the bloc. In return, the bloc supported the Trotskyists’ continued control
of Teamsters Local 574. Within a year the Trotskyists’ opportunist trajectory led them to
enter the FLP and begin an unprincipled struggle against Stalinists and conservative
Farmer-Labor politicians for control of this regional bourgeois party.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZThe triumph of diplomacy. James Byrnes and the Iran Crisis of 1946.Baker, William Roberthttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1813732020-01-23T00:14:19Z2016-01-01T00:00:00ZThe triumph of diplomacy. James Byrnes and the Iran Crisis of 1946.
Baker, William Robert
The Iran crisis of 1946 marked the end of America's wartime policy of accommodation
toward the USSR. Russia's refusals to withdraw her occupation army from northern Iran
at the end of the war as per treaty obligations and agreements with her allies proved that
policy which had anticipated postwar cooperation by the USSR, was ineffective. Instead,
the resolution of the dispute between the two victorious great powers came about as a
result of a diplomatic strategy pursued by Secretary of State James Byrnes. Contrary to
popular belief, the Iran crisis played over the conference table of the newly inaugurated
United Nations Security Council not American ultimatums or threats of armed force
against the USSR.
Byrnes diplomatic strategy at the Security Council abandoned FDR's soft Soviet policy
but preserved his greater foreign policy goal of establishing a viable United Nations.
American support for Iran's complaint lodged against the USSR before the Council (the
first order of business ever taken up by the new body) legitimized the executive branch of
the U.N. as one that would hear grievance by smaller nations even when the accused
party was a veto proof permanent member of the UNSC.
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