Browsing by Subject "Empire"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Contracting Freedom: Governance and East Indian Indenture in the British Atlantic, 1838-1917
(2014)This is a dissertation about identity and governance, and how they are mutually constituted. Between 1838 and 1917, the British brought approximately half a million East Indian laborers to the Atlantic to work on ... -
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 ... -
Dreams of a Tropical Canada: Race, Nation, and Canadian Aspirations in the Caribbean Basin, 1883-1919
(2010)Dreams of a "tropical Canada" that included the West Indies occupied the thoughts of many Canadians over a period spanning nearly forty years. From the expansionist fever of the late nineteenth century to the redistribution ... -
Forms of Empire: Law, Violence, and the Poetics of Victorian Power
(2009)Victorian England was the first empire in history to imagine itself as liberal, believing that its own power could bring law to the darkest and most unruly corners of the world. But despite covering nearly the entire period ... -
From Prose to Policy: Leonard Woolf’s Literary Journey from Unconscious Imperialist to Conscientious Internationalist
(2016-02-19)*Designated as an exemplary master's project for 2015-16*Leonard Woolf used writing, both fiction and non-fiction, to work through many of the issues of colonialism which he encountered both in his direct experience as part ... -
In Defense of Empire: Habsburg Sociology and the European Nation-State, 1870-1920
(2020)This dissertation asks how Europe’s multinational states legitimized themselves in the face of new, nation-based theories of sovereignty around the turn of the twentieth century. It answers this question by analyzing the ... -
The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
(2015)Historically, the wind has functioned in multiple capacities, both physically and symbolically. The following study explores the ways in which natural history, myth and folklore, craft knowledge, and religion contributed ... -
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 ...
