Browsing by Subject "History"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
"Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century
(2013)"Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century" explores the socioeconomic worlds of free women of means. I find that they owned slaves, engaged in ... -
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 ... -
Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables
(2016)In my thesis, “Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables,” I ask and answer the ‘Who? What? Where? When? Why?” of Creole Literature using the 19th century production of Aesopian ... -
Competitive Collaboration: The Dutch and English East India Companies & The Forging of Global Corporate Political Economy (1650-1700)
(2017)This dissertation explores how, during the seventeenth century, the rival Dutch (VOC) and English (EIC) East India Companies forged a corporate political economy that transcended national political and economic frameworks. ... -
“Conquest without Rule: Baloch Portfolio Mercenaries in the Indian Ocean.”
(2008)The central question this dissertation engages with is why modern states in the Persian Gulf rely heavily on informal networks of untrained and inexperienced recruits from the region of Balochistan, presently spread across ...
