Browsing by Subject "European history"
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Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Trials in Early Modern Spain, 1525-1675
(2016)This dissertation challenges depictions of witchcraft as a sensational or disruptive phenomenon, presenting witch beliefs instead as organically woven into everyday community life, religious beliefs, and village culture. ... -
Care of Bodies, Cure of Souls: Medicine and Religion in Early Modern Germany
(2017)In both medicine and theology, the early modern period was one of flux, characterized by Reformation and Revolution. Scholars tend to analyze shifts in natural philosophy and theology separately. This dissertation brings ... -
"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 ... -
Cowboys and Indians in Africa: The Far West, French Algeria, and the Comics Western in France
(2017)This dissertation examines the emergence of Far West adventure tales in France across the second colonial empire (1830-1962) and their reigning popularity in the field of Franco-Belgian bande dessinée (BD), or comics, in ... -
Georges Sorel, Autonomy and Violence in the Third Republic
(2012)How did Georges Sorel's philosophy of violence emerge from the moderate, reformist, and liberal philosophy of the French Third Republic? This dissertation answers the question through a contextual intellectual history of ... -
Law, Commerce, and the Rise of New Imagery in Antwerp, 1500-1600
(2011)Marinus Van Reymerswaele's painting of 1542, <italic>The Lawyer's Office</italic>, was a completely new type of image in the history of art. It shows a lawyer and his assistant behind a desk strewn with briefs, wax seals ... -
Marketing Nature: Apothecaries, Medicinal Retailing, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Venice, 1565-1730
(2015)This dissertation examines the contributions of apothecary craftsmen and their medicinal retailing practices to emerging cultures of scientific investigation and experimental practice in the Italian port city of Venice between ... -
Networks of Knowledge: Ethnology and Civilization in French North and West Africa, 1844-1961
(2012)<p>The second French colonial empire (1830-1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own so as to govern them better. Overlooking the contributions of ... -
Swept into the Abyss: A Family History of Cornish Methodism, Missionary Networks and the British Empire, 1789-1885
(2012)On Christmas Day in 1788, on the eve of a year which was to see the entire Atlantic world once more convulsed with revolution and war, a struggling farmer and occasional fisherman from the village of Mousehole in western ... -
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 ... -
The Night Watchman: Hans Speier and the Making of the American National Security State
(2013)What accounts for the rise of defense intellectuals in the early Cold War? Why did these academics reject university life to accept positions in the foreign policy establishment? Why were so many of German origin? "The Night ...
