Copyright (c) 2013 Northeastern University All rights reserved. http://iris.lib.neu.edu/history_theses Recent documents in History Master's Theses en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 16:53:50 PDT 3600 http://iris.lib.neu.edu/history_theses/2 http://iris.lib.neu.edu/history_theses/2 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:40:10 PST This research paper discusses the role of the civilian in twentieth century warfare, using World War Two as a framework. The goal is to compel the reader to re-examine the idealized conceptualization of the nature and status of the civilian in war by using real-life examples. Five case studies dealing with concentration camps in the United States, medical experimentation by the Japanese in China, rape warfare used by the Soviets in Germany, strategic and incendiary bombing of Japan by the United States, and the mobilization of the civilians as labor for war in Great Britain show that the civilian is... ]]> Joyce E. Jackson http://iris.lib.neu.edu/history_theses/1 http://iris.lib.neu.edu/history_theses/1 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:17:59 PST Public hygiene discourse in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries positioned the human body as an object requiring hygienic treatment. In Oaxaca, Mexico the legislation designed to "inject modernity" functioned as a tool to control the lives of the socially and politically "unhygienic." Despite moves towards "modernity" made by elites, vaccine legislation was not effective tool because the agency of the popular classes and peasants of Mexico reshaped the vaccination projects according to their local situation. This thesis discusses the vaccination program as an emblem of elite efforts to "modernize" and "hygienize" the bodies of ordinary Oaxaqueños. I show,... ]]> Rebecca Ann Dufendach Public health--Mexico--Oaxaca--History