This thesis is a study of the attitudes towards women's enfranchisement, and involvement within the British women's suffrage movement, of the male members of the Independent Labour Party, a mixed sex socialist organisation. The period covered ranges from 1893, the year of the party's foundation, to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The aim of this study is to contribute to our understanding of a hitherto neglected aspect of suffrage history: the male supporters. Suffrage historians have generally considered Independent Labour Party men's attitudes towards women's enfranchisement to have been positive: their ideas and activities are now placed under careful scrutiny. The theoretical underpinnings of the thesis lie in gender history, most especially in the field of historical studies of masculinities, which in themselves have been informed by the ideas and writings of women's history. Independent Labour Party men are viewed not as a group of individuals with certain physical characteristics in common, but as sharing gendered identities as socialists and as men, which influenced their attitudes towards the roles deemed appropriate for men and women within society, and towards women's emancipation in particular. Furthermore, the thesis assesses how their ideas and identities were themselves challenged by developments within the suffrage movement. Chapter 1 considers the years between 1893-5, a period characterised by few formal links between Independent Labour Party men and the suffrage movement, and assesses how supportive attitudes towards women's enfranchisement fitted into prevailing understandings of socialism and independent labour representation. Chapters 2 and 3, focusing respectively on the periods between 1895-1905, and 1905-1911, consider the impact of a burgeoning suffrage movement, active within the ranks of the labour movement itself, and characterised by its own priorities, objectives and tactics. Chapter 4, dealing with the years between 1911-1914, concludes by assessing Independent Labour Party men's responses to a shift in the suffrage debate, as the introduction in Parliament of adult suffrage became a practical proposition.

When a student at Berea College it occurred to the writer that if the opportunity should ever present itself, she would be interested in knowing more concerning the early struggles and untiring labor of the men who had made possible such a great and unique institution of learning. It is the aim of this paper to treat in a brief and concise way the development of this institution and in particular the part played by John G. Fee. Also it is hoped to furnish an account of the early struggles of this institution that will be of interest to the general reader or public at large.

During World War I, dogs held a contradictory place in American society. These animals functioned simultaneously as patriots, pets, and pests. This essay surveys the ways in which dogs either contributed to the war effort or seemed to subvert it through their uselessness as companion animals and their predation as feral ones. Ultimately, even worsening conditions on the homefront could not cause the American public as a whole to consider surrendering its affection for these animals, including the worthless ones. In the face of impending legislation that threatened to eliminate man’s best friend as a war measure, the American people successfully defended the dog, while citizens in several of the other warring nations could not afford to do so. American admiration for the patriot, combined with affection for the pet, outweighed anxiety over the pest.

The French Quarter of New Orleans and its famous Bourbon Street receive millions of visitors each year and are the subjects of both scholarly study and the popular imagination. Bourbon Street’s history of striptease has largely been untouched by scholars. In the post-World War II period, nightclubs featuring striptease entertainment drew the attention of reform-minded city and police officials, who attempted to purge striptease from the city’s historic district in an effort to whitewash the city’s main tourist area and appeal to potential outside economic industrial opportunities. Through news articles, correspondence, tourism brochures, and published reports, this thesis explores how striptease endured on Bourbon Street despite various reform campaigns against it and shows that striptease was an integral part of the New Orleans tourist economy in the postwar period.

After the American Civil War, and the collapse of the market in slave-produced cotton in the South, cotton merchants in New Orleans faced challenges in re-establishing the city as a central port for Southern cotton. As commodities exchanges emerged as centralized spaces for business in the 1870s, a new class of experts emerged, upon whose reports traders bought and sold newly developed securities derivatives. Henry G. Hester (1846- 1934), Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, was an integral player in the development of the methods that governed sophisticated commodities trading around the world. His career at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange tells the story of the arrival of these methods and subsequent downfall of Euro-American centrality in the global cotton empire and contradicts previous histories that deemphasize Southern businesspersons’ contributions to modernization.

This thesis addresses the place of old age in British psychiatry, from 1835-1912. It asks: how were mental disorders in old age understood, categorised and responded to? It seeks answers to these questions in three sets of sources: theoretical published works written by professional psychiatrists, the official reports of the bodies charged with managing the asylum at a national and local level, and in the patient records of Hanwell County Lunatic Asylum. It argues that the ‘senile’ became more clearly defined in the latter nineteenth century, in politics and in medicine, as a residual category of person: too insane for the workhouse, too old for the asylum. It shows that, during this period, older people in the asylum were increasingly likely to be viewed as ‘old’. Through the increasing focus on internal pathology as an aetiological determinant of mental disorder, both engendered and reflected in changes to the asylum’s patient records, the inherent agedness of older people – with associations of inevitable decline, incurability and dependency – became central to the way that psychiatrists interpreted their mental disorders. The senile were a controversial group in nineteenth-century psychiatry. The administrators of Lunacy made attempts to exclude them from the asylum, but families and workhouse officials continued to send them there. The asylum played an important role in latter-nineteenth-century London as a pressure-valve for those whose behaviour made them unmanageable in other settings. Without more specialised provision, the asylum was often the only institution which could manage the elderly mentally disordered. Once there, aged patients worked and were cared for alongside the rest of the asylum population, usually until their death.

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de investigar se o modo de vida da população do século XIX interferia no seu comportamento linguístico. Segundo Amadeu Amaral, as variantes linguísticas presentes nestas populações compunham o dito dialeto caipira. Portanto, para fazermos este estudo, tratamos da história social da região tendo como base os documentos manuscritos datados do século XIX, todos emitidos da própria localidade estudada, que é a região de Tietê. E assim, faremos um estudo de como era formado o meio social destas pessoas, e se este meio social interferia no seu comportamento linguístico. / This works aims to investigate whether the way of life of nineteenth century interfered in their linguistic behavior. According to Amadeu Amaral, linguistic variants present in these populations comprised the rustic dialect mentioned. So to do this survey, we deal with the social history of the region based on the manuscripts documents dating from the nineteenth century, all drawn from the studied area, which is the Tietê region. And so, we will make a study to show now the social environment of these people was formed, and if it interfered in the social linguistic behavior.

O objetivo desta tese de doutorado é analisar como foi construída a rede de infraestrutura territorial e urbana do estado de São Paulo, nas últimas décadas do século XIX. Concebendo a construção desta rede como produção social do espaço, cuja produção mobilizou vários agentes sociais, iremos concentrar o nosso foco de análise em um personagem histórico em específico, envolvido com a elaboração desta rede, o engenheiro civil Antonio Francisco de Paula Souza (1843-1917). Mais conhecido como diretor da Escola Politécnica de São Paulo, as várias biografias produzidas sobre Paula Souza fazem pouca menção à sua carreira como engenheiro antes de ingressar no universo acadêmico, uma atuação que se destacou na construção da rede de infra-estrutura, em especial, nos setores ferroviário e de saneamento. Desvendando esta rica trajetória profissional e recolhendo elementos que nos permitam compreender como foi construída a rede infra-estrutural, esperamos ainda contribuir com novos dados acerca da profícua atuação deste engenheiro em São Paulo. / The objective of this PhD thesis is to analyze how the territorial and urban infrastructural network was built in the state of São Paulo, in the last decades of the 19th century. Conceiving the construction of this infrastructure as a social production of the space, which mobilized several social actors, we will concentrate our analytical focus in a specific historical figure involved with the construction of this network, the civil engineer Antonio Francisco de Paula Souza (1843-1917). As Paula Souza is better known for his work as director of the Escola Politécnica of São Paulo, the biographies about him make little mention to his career as an engineer before his entree in the academic universe, a career that had great importance in the construction of the infrastructure network, specially in the railroad and sanitation sectors. Unveiling this rich professional history and bringing about documental evidence that allows us to understand how the infrastructure network was constructed, we expect to contribute with new information concerning the prolific career of this engineer in São Paulo.

O presente trabalho trará a edição semidiplomática dos processos criminais e autos de devassa dos séculos XVII ao XX, bem como a análise do emprego dos diacríticos. O período escolhido proporcionará analisar a evolução do uso dos sinais gráficos agudo (´), circunflexo (^), grave (`) e til (~), bem como traçar uma similaridade entre os usos, contextualizadas às aplicações estabelecidas no período, quando existentes. O trabalho filológico estará presente em todas as análises realizadas e inicialmente partiremos da transcrição semidiplomática dos manuscritos, que nos possibilitarão identificar alguns fatores que contribuíram com a diversificação do uso dos diacríticos, bem como sanar dúvidas quanto a sua aplicabilidade. Após essa análise e a descaracterização de similaridades, ou seja, a minimização de dúvidas quanto a identificação do diacrítico, devido ao traçado utilizado, partimos para uma segunda etapa da análise do corpus: a diversificação dos usos nos diferentes séculos e suas motivações. Em paralelo, e não menos importante, buscaremos no contexto político-social as perspectivas socioculturais que apresentem a dinâmica na forma de apresentação e estruturação documental, bem como identificar os autores dos documentos e sua influência na elaboração dos autos. Buscando em gramáticas, ortografias e manuais de escrita das épocas relacionadas, estabelecemos relações entre o contexto social, político e ideológico refletidos nas obras linguísticas dos séculos XVI ao XX à utilização dos sinais diacríticos presentes na documentação. Essa correlação serviu-nos de base para que identificássemos similaridades entre os usos defendidos pelos gramáticos, ortógrafos e mestres e os escribas responsáveis pela feitura dos documentos. O objetivo desse estudo é apresentar novos contextos acerca do uso destes sinais gráficos a partir de uma análise linguística e histórico-social dos dados coletados nos autos de devassa, contribuindo assim com futuras pesquisas e estudos na área da filologia e da linguística histórica. / This paper will focus on both the semi-diplomatic edition of the criminal proceedings, autos de devassa (case files), from the 17th to the 20th centuries, and on the analysis of the use of diacritics. The chosen time period will not only make it possible to analyze the development of graphic signs: acute (´), circumflex (^), grave (`), and tilde (~), but also draw a similarity between the uses, contextualized to the applications set out in the period - when existing. The philological research will permeate all the conducted analyses, and we will start with the semi-diplomatic transcription of the manuscripts, which will enable us to identify several factors which contributed to the diversification of the use of diacritics, and will also answer questions as to their applicability. After making this analysis and detracting from the characterization of the similarities, that is, minimizing questions regarding the identification of the diacritic, due to the designed plan, we move on to the second phase of the corpus analysis: the diversification of the uses in the different centuries and their motivations. In addition, and importantly, we will seek in the sociopolitical context the sociocultural perspectives that present the dynamics in presentation form and documental structuring, and also identify the authors of the documents and their influence on the drafting of the files. Searching in grammars, orthographies and writing manuals of the related times, we have established relationships between the sociopolitical and ideological context reflected in the linguistic works of the time period from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and the use of diacritical signs laid out in the documentation. This correlation served as a basis for us to identify similarities among the uses upheld by grammarians, orthographers, professors and the scribes responsible for drafting the documents. The purpose of this study is to introduce new contexts on the use of these graphic signs based on a linguistic, social and historical analysis of the data collected in the autos de devassa (case files), thus contributing to future research in the fields of philology and historical linguistics.

O presente trabalho trará a edição semidiplomática de manuscritos do século XIX, da Administração Geral dos Correios em São Paulo. Seu objetivo é analisar os sinais diacríticos, em especial o diacrítico (´). Tendo em vista, a abordagem quase inexistente acerca do assunto, buscou-se relacionar a intensidade, duração e timbre das vogais e sílabas no latim clássico e vulgar com o emprego destes sinais nos documentos do XIX. O objetivo é contribuir com os estudos da filologia, linguística histórica e história social. A dissertação foi dividida em duas partes: a primeira parte descreve aspectos histórico-sociais da instituição e da sociedade da época, trazendo uma análise codicologica do material; a segunda parte consiste no levantamento paleográfico, com especial atenção aos sinais diacríticos, abordando estes e os sinais de pontuação, suas funções e emprego, a terceira parte constituirá a edição semidiplomática dos documentos. / The present work bring the semidiplomatics edition of manuscripts of XIX century, of General Management of Post Office in Sao Paulo. Its objective is to analyzes diacritics signals, in special the (´). In view of, the almost inexistent boarding concerning the subject, searched to relate the intensity, duration and stress of the vowels and syllables in the vulgar and classic Latin with the job of these signals in documents of the XIX. The objective is to contribute with the studies of philology, historical linguistics and social history. The paper was divided in two parts: the first part describes social historics aspects of the institution and the society that period, bringing a codicological analysis of the material; the second part was based on dates obtained from paleographycal aspects specially the diacrítical signals dealing with pontuation signal and its functions; the third part constitute the semidiplomatics edition of documents.