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Browsing by Subject "History"
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A Century of Sleeplessness: Zheng Guangzu, Lower Gentry and Religion, 1776-1866
(2023)In this thesis, I probe the incremental religious and social changes in the local society that led up to the great transformations of the mid-19th century. I use the word “sleeplessness” both literally and figuratively. ... -
A Defense of the Role of History in Education Through the Analysis of the Chilean School Curriculum
(2017-01-17)In 2010, the Chilean Government tried to cut the school hours per week of social sciences in the 5th to 10th grade school curriculum in order to increase the hours of language (Spanish) and mathematics. This reform tried ... -
A Nonviolent Augustinianism?: History and Politics in the Theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder
(2008-12-10)The theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder are, if at all treated together, typically contrasted. This negative juxtaposition is in so small part due to the very different reputations of each theologian on the ... -
"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
(2014)Between 1890 and 1965, the ideology of government responsibility for maternal and child health represented a continuous and central goal that fueled programs and institutional networks of progressive and liberal social policy ... -
A Sea of Debt: Histories of Commerce and Obligation in the Indian Ocean, c. 1850-1940
(2012)This dissertation is a legal history of debt and economic life in the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. It draws on materials from Bahrain, Muscat, Bombay, Zanzibar and London to examine how ... -
Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
(2012)This dissertation examines the adaptability of civic cults during the Hellenistic period. Faced with shifting populations, increasing social tensions, economic changes, and political pressures, Hellenistic communities devised ... -
After Kiyozawa: A Study of Shin Buddhist Modernization, 1890-1956
(2015)This dissertation examines the modern transformation of orthodoxy within the Otani denomination of Japanese Shin Buddhism. This history was set in motion by scholar-priest Kiyozawa Manshi (1863-1903), whose calls for free ... -
Against the Grain: Reclaiming the Life I Left Behind
(2015-06-12)* Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15* Against the Grain revisits a period of my life long neglected: the 20 years between my graduation from London University with a BA in African history in 1964 and ... -
All in the Same Boat: Fighting for Capital in Gadsden, Alabama, 1900-Present
(2020)Following World War II, in the estimate of the Congress of IndustrialOrganizations (CIO), one out of every six people in the city of Gadsden, Alabamabelonged to the union, making it the “best organized CIO city in the US.” ... -
American Civil-Military Relations and the Political Economy of National Security
(2021)In this dissertation I analyze aspects of American civil-military relations and the political economy of national security policymaking. Specifically, I examine efforts to balance the military power necessary to secure American ... -
Animals
(2020)This book is an invaluable resource for students or scholars seeking to grasp current research on the history of sexuality and is a seminal text for undergraduate and graduate courses on American history, Sexuality Studies, ... -
Another World History Is Possible: Reflections on the Translocal, Transnational, and Global
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'Any Name That Has Power': The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1948-1977
(2013)The US Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was an organization of the Black Power Movement, a cultural and a political nationalist movement central to the history of the African-American Freedom Struggle. The Black Panthers' ... -
Art, Commerce, and Caricature: Satirical Images of Artistic Life in Paris, 1750-1850
(2017)This dissertation examines a corpus of 486 satirical images of artistic life in Paris. The Parisian art-world was regularly the subject of a form of satirical criticism conducted in visual media. More significantly, this ... -
Automating Violence: A History of United States Drone Warfare, 1900-1970
(2022)Drones may appear a recent technology whose future may have just barely started. But drone technology’s development and the rationales for their adoption extend back over a century ago to weapons called “pilotless airplanes” ... -
Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
(2015)My dissertation examines the presence of enslaved prisoners in local jails and workhouses of antebellum South Carolina from 1730-1850 with a particular focus on the 1790s as a transformative period. Those sites expose the ... -
Between Fraud Heaven and Tort Hell: The Business, Politics, and Law of Lawsuits
(2018)In the 1970s, consumer advocates worried that Alabama's weak regulatory structure around consumer fraud made it a kind of "con man's heaven." But by the 1990s, the battle cry of regulatory reformers had reversed, ... -
Between Shanghai and Mecca: Diaspora and Diplomacy of Chinese Muslims in the Twentieth Century
(2019)While China’s recent Belt and the Road Initiative and its expansion across Eurasia is garnering public and scholarly attention, this dissertation recasts the space of Eurasia as one connected through historic Islamic networks ... -
Beyond the Convent Walls: The Local and Japan-wide Activities of Daihongan’s Nuns in the Early Modern Period (c. 1550–1868)
(2016)This dissertation examines the social and financial activities of Buddhist nuns to demonstrate how and why they deployed Buddhist doctrines, rituals, legends, and material culture to interact with society outside the convent. ... -
Building a Better World: Youth, Radicalism, and the Politics of Space in New York City, 1945-1965
(2012)According to conventional wisdom, the period of intense antiradicalism that followed World War II effectively drove all radical activity underground by the early 1950s, severing the intergenerational connection between the ...
