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Title: Doctors in Dictatorship: An Oral History Approach to the Chilean Medical Body’s Role in Regime Change.
Author: Urrutia, Ana
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History, Labor economics
Description: From 1970 until the end of the military dictatorship, doctors in Chile became deeply entangled with the state in their efforts to secure and expand their professional authority and power. Working both collectively through their professional associ...

Title: Indigenous Rights at the Crossroads of Development and Environmental Protection in the TIPNIS, Bolivia
Author: Walton, Leah
Date Created: 2019
Description: On September 25, 2011, Bolivia garnered international attention when federal police violently attacked the camp of indigenous protestors marching against the construction of a highway through the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécur...

Title: Indigenous Rights at the Crossroads of Development and Environmental Protection in the TIPNIS, Bolivia
Author: Walton, Leah
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: On September 25, 2011, Bolivia garnered international attention when federal police violently attacked the camp of indigenous protestors marching against the construction of a highway through the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécur...

Title: Pedro II and Getulio Vargas: National Leaders, Words, and Sociopolitical Change in Brazil during the Paraguayan War and World War II
Author: Ortiz, Nicholas
Date Created: 2016
Description: The speeches given by Pedro Segundo and Getulio Vargas during wartime not only reveals their orientation of leadership but in turn provides something else. These discourses gives one a unique window into not only how these leaders chose to perceiv...

Title: Pedro II and Getulio Vargas: National Leaders, Words, and Sociopolitical Change in Brazil during the Paraguayan War and World War II
Author: Ortiz, Nicholas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: The speeches given by Pedro Segundo and Getulio Vargas during wartime not only reveals their orientation of leadership but in turn provides something else. These discourses gives one a unique window into not only how these leaders chose to perceiv...

Title: THE 1986 WORLD CUP AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY DURING MEXICO’S “LOST DECADE”
Author: Pliego Campos, Noe
Date Created: 2017
Description: Using newspapers from Mexico City, Ciudad Nezahualcotyl, Queretaro, and other cities throughout Mexico and outside of Mexico alongside official documents and publications, I argue that the Mexican government led by President Miguel de la Madrid su...

Title: THE 1986 WORLD CUP AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY DURING MEXICO’S “LOST DECADE”
Author: Pliego Campos, Noe
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: Using newspapers from Mexico City, Ciudad Nezahualcotyl, Queretaro, and other cities throughout Mexico and outside of Mexico alongside official documents and publications, I argue that the Mexican government led by President Miguel de la Madrid su...

Title: The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
Author: Stroud, Lucinda
Date Created: 2019
Description: This thesis examines the Maricopa County Organizing Project (MCOP or the Project) which was founded in 1977 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The MCOP is believed to be the first organization to hold an agricultural strike that consisted of entirely un...

Title: The Goldmar Strike: Formative Years of the MCOP, 1977-1979
Author: Stroud, Lucinda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: History, Industrial relations, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching
Description: This thesis examines the Maricopa County Organizing Project (MCOP or the Project) which was founded in 1977 in Maricopa County, Arizona. The MCOP is believed to be the first organization to hold an agricultural strike that consisted of entirely un...

Title: The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century
Author: Almengor, Candie
Date Created: 2015
Description: The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century is a case study among many Latin American countries’ desire to display modernity in an attempt to rid of any uncivilized notoriety. This thesis juxtaposes Guatemal...

Title: The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century
Author: Almengor, Candie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century is a case study among many Latin American countries’ desire to display modernity in an attempt to rid of any uncivilized notoriety. This thesis juxtaposes Guatemal...

Title: UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS OF UNDOCUMENTED MINORS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA COMING TO THE U.S.A: A Case Study in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Yao-Kouame, Koffi Possone
Date Created: 2016
Description: Children migrating from Latin America to the U.S. have always been part of migration fluxes. But, roughly since the early 2010s, the number of unaccompanied minors began to dramatically and historically surge. It is reaching such levels that the U...

Title: UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS OF UNDOCUMENTED MINORS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA COMING TO THE U.S.A: A Case Study in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Yao-Kouame, Koffi Possone
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Area studies
Description: Children migrating from Latin America to the U.S. have always been part of migration fluxes. But, roughly since the early 2010s, the number of unaccompanied minors began to dramatically and historically surge. It is reaching such levels that the U...

Title: “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
Author: Winch, Debora
Date Created: 2021
Description: From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...

Title: “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
Author: Winch, Debora
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...