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Loyal to Commerce?: Merchants and the Occupation of Eastern North Carolina, 1862-1865
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-21)
This thesis comparatively analyzes the experiences and loyalties of merchants in the North Carolina towns of New Bern and Williamston during the American Civil War through the viewpoint of two individual merchants: Jacob ...
Shackles, Collars, and Chains: Exposing the treatment of enslaved black women during the Middle Passage and as part of the archaeological record (1700-1886)
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-04)
This thesis examines and argues that the shipboard narratives and material culture related to black enslaved women from 1700 through 1886 further illuminates gendered experiences. The study analyses the role of these African ...
UNDERSTANDING “THE FOG OF WAR”: ARCHAEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, AND GEOSPATIAL MODELING OF NORTH CAROLINA’S TORPEDO JUNCTION
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-07)
This thesis studies the German U-boat attacks on Allied merchant ships off the coast of North Carolina as part of the Battle of the Atlantic in the spring of 1942. Position fixing methods were not precise during the mid-20th ...
The Pirates of Cilicia: A GIS Approach to Creating a Predictive Model of 1st Century B.C. Pirate Maritime Networks in the Eastern Aegean Sea
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-10)
The Cilician Pirates dominated the Mediterranean during the late second and early first centuries B.C. Their homeland, Cilicia, was a rugged and tough mountainous region, and as such they expanded into the unguarded and ...
The smells of eternity: Aromatic oils and resins in the Phoenician mortuary record
(2021-09-30)
This chapter surveys and analyses the aromatic substances associated with burial and the preservation of the dead in the Iron Age Phoenician Levant (c. 1100–300 bce), as part of an exploration of the lost smellscapes of ...
WHICH NIGHT TO REMEMBER? WHY SOME MARITIME DISASTERS LIVE LONGER IN PUBLIC MEMORY THAN OTHERS
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
This thesis compares twelve maritime disasters from the twentieth century in order to determine why some are kept longer in public memory than others and why some are largely forgotten. No apparent correlation was found ...
A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS: DIVIDED LOYALTY AND MOTIVATION IN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS FROM HYDE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
The Seventeenth North Carolina State Troops, Company B (Confederate) and the First North Carolina Volunteers, Company H (Union), were raised principally in Hyde County in eastern North Carolina, but fought on opposing sides ...
Hannibal at the Gates: An Analysis of the Punic Invasion of Italy in the Third Century BCE
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
This thesis examines Hannibal Barca and his role in the Second Punic War while scrutinizing his battle tactics to gain perspective on his military campaigns. Hannibal was the first Carthaginian general known to have been ...
The Evolution of the Late Roman World: Relgious, Political, and Military Developments in Late Antiquity
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
This thesis examines selected religious, political, and military developments of the late Roman Empire from the end of the second century through the end of the reign of Justinian I. The specific developments under ...
CAROLINA SUNSET, CUBAN SUNRISE: CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND HISTORIC INTERSECTIONALITY IN CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Reconstruction twisted the foundations of race, class, and gender in the southern United States into knots. The changes that created a new socio-political paradigm in the aftermath of the Civil War, especially emancipation ...