Browsing by Subject "Colonialism"
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"A New England in All But Name"
(2022-04-20)“Settler colonialism” emerged as an analytical tool in the twentieth century as scholars attempted to both understand and reckon with the history of colonization. It describes a distinct means of conquest that relies on ... -
"Colonizers are born, not made": Creating a Colonialist Identity in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
(2012)After the First World War, Germany lost its overseas territories, becoming Europe's first post-colonial nation. After 1919, and especially between 1933 and 1945, however, German colonialists advocated for the return of these ... -
Compelling Interests: Understanding the Balance of Mandatory Autonomy Through Metropolitan Pressures
(2009-05-02)Historians have long debated who is more influential in colonial policymaking, the so-called man on the spot or the national government. The fact of the matter is that some representatives overseas have more autonomy than ... -
Cruel Operators: History, Empire, and Affect in the Global Anglophone Novel
(2020)“Cruel Operators: History, Empire, and Affect in the Global Anglophone Novel,” reanimates and repoliticizes the idea of “cruel aesthetics” within contemporary literature by placing cruelty at the crux of global capitalism’s ... -
Cultural Commingling: The Impact of Western Medical Conceptions on Igbo Cultural Understandings of Disease
(2013-04)Since the beginning of colonialism, people of different cultures have adamantly fought changes that can irreversibly alter cultural identities. Sub-Saharan African societies, specifically, have been victims of aggressive ... -
Divine Exposures: Religion and Imposture in Colonial India
(2009)My dissertation interrogates the figure of the priestly charlatan in colonial India. It begins in a theoretical register by arguing that the unmasking of charlatans serves as a metonym for the secularizing procedures of ... -
Investigating the Immune System and Colonialism in Sea Urchins
(2021)Sea urchins are relegated as background or non-playable characters in Western Science and Western culture on a daily basis. This dissertation shines a spotlight on my non-human relatives and gives readers a chance to learn ... -
The Making of Savage Europe: Religious Difference and The Idea of Eastern Europe
(2022)This dissertation argues that the emergence of the idea of Eastern Europe in the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment West could be attributed not only to geopolitical causes but also to the way that the region was figured ... -
The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy: The Emergence of Modern Administrative Organizations
(2019)How can we explain the significant variation in the organization and performance of public bureaucracies across countries, across regions, and between the levels of the administrative hierarchy? Considering the high level ... -
Utopia/Dystopia: Japan's Image of the Manchurian Ideal
(2012)This project focuses on the visual culture that emerged from Japan's relationship with Manchuria during the Manchukuo period (1932-1945). It was during this time that Japanese official and popular interest in the region ... -
Virtue, Vice, and Western Identities: A Thomistic Approach to the Sins of White Power
(2018)How did our world’s wealth become so unevenly distributed? How did a small group of Europeans and Americans manage to acquire and retain so much wealth while so many others struggled to acquire enough to sustain their basic ... -
Western Colonialism at the "Razor Edge of Decision": Anti-Colonial Ideals and Cold War Imperatives in the Presidential Campaign Rhetoric of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, August -November 1960
(2008-12)In the presidential campaign rhetoric of 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon discovered a shared middle-ground in regard to colonialism, a major issue of the year due to widespread decolonization ... -
Yopo, ethnicity and social change: a comparative analysis of Piaroa and Cuiva yopo uset.
(Journal of psychoactive drugs, 2011-01)Most Orinocoan ethnic groups, including the Cuiva and the Piaroa, use yopo, a hallucinogenic snuff derived from the seeds of the Anadenanthera peregrina tree. This study contrasts Piaroa and Cuiva attitudes toward and uses ...
