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Please note: While the abstracts will be made available both to those within and outside Adelphi University, access to full papers will be given only to those with passwords. For further information and to obtain a password, please contact the Adelphi History Department Journal's editor Dr. Cristina Zaccarini
Furthermore, the papers in the Adelphi History Department Journal are only accessible from on-campus computers.
Cross-Class Standards
by Andrea Socci, for Women in the United States I (HIS 281)
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The Industrial Revolution expanded production outside the home and brought with it opportunities for women to join in the wage earning economy as well as participate in the public sphere. Andrea Socci discusses in this paper for Women in the United States I (HIS 281) the social standards in which both the mill girls of Lowell and the factory girls of New York were held and how these views reflected class and gender values. The Lowell mill girls were members of the bourgeois, generally daughters of established families. As a result, the environment in which these women labored reflected middle-class values of chastity, domestic skill, and frugality which consequently provided for the approval of their work outside the home. The factory girls of New York City however, were criticized for not adhering to the same social standards despite the fact that they originated from a different economic class and consequently worked in terrible conditions to support themselves rather then to supplement the income of their families. The bridging of these values between classes reflects the paternalistic societys need to control women as well as the lower-class aspirations to join the bourgeois.
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The Teschen Conflict: Nationalism over the New Order in Postwar Central Europe
by Colleen Day, for Senior Seminar in European History (HIS 443)
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The paper explores the Paris Peace Conference, which convened in January 1919 following the end of World War I, the war that fomented the disintegration of empires on the European continent and thus inspired hopes of a new world order. The leaders of the major Western powers “notably, Woodrow Wilson (United States), David Lloyd George (Great Britain), Georges Clemenceau (France), and Vittorio Orlando (Italy)” set to work negotiating treaties between the victor and defeated states, and essentially redrawing the map of Europe as newly liberated peoples demanded their own independent nations. This paper focuses on one such land dispute that resulted from these simultaneous demands. A source of hostility and conflict for centuries, the fight between the Polish and Czech people over the Duchy of Teschen reemerged during World War I when independence became a possibility. The dispute was one of historic rights versus ethnic majority, and representatives from the newly formed Poland and Czechoslovakia appealed to the Western powers to win not only land, but also international recognition. In particular, the Czechs' recent nationalist movement, largely inspired by Western philosophy, allowed the country's leaders and conference delegates to cite affinity with the West as another basis for their claims. The paper examines the fight for Teschen within the context of this nationalist movement; namely, how it contributed to the escalation of its dispute as well as its outcome. In addition, the paper aims to show how the Czechs' budding, Western-oriented identity damaged their relationship with their Polish neighbors, and therefore may have cost Czechoslovakia a valuable ally.
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For additional information, please contact:
Dr. Cristina Zaccarini
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Department of History
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