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Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Africana Studies, 1969-2019: A History of Imagining Otherwise

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2019-September-19
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An exhibition at the Vassar College Library marking the 50th anniversary of the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College.

September 19 through December 22, 2019.

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Convergence and growth amongst rich and poor

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1992-March-01
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This paper reexamines the Baumol-Wolff (1988) hypothesis that there exists an exclusive international Convergence Club of rich nations whose members will move nearer each other with the passage of time. We argue that the Baumol-Wolff analysis does not really justify...

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Fault Dating in Rosendale, New York Using Clay Polytype Quantification

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2013-January-01
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The techniques of fault dating, though still underdeveloped on a wide scale, have been increasingly studied over the past decade. This study draws on these recent observations in relative literature and relates them to a fault in Rosendale, New York...

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Virgil's Bumpkins: An examination of rural idealization and denigration in Virgil's Georgics and 21st-century American culture

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2021-January-01
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Vergil's Georgics has been known throughout history as a didactic, "how to" guide on farming. However, as scholarship has progressed, the Georgics is now seen less as a guide on farming and more as a "self-insert" farming fantasy for the...

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