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Item Acapulco-Manila: the Galleon, Asia and Latin America, 1565-1815(2016-09-05) Flannery, KristieItem African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)(2019-05-20) Whitehouse, DavidItem Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World by Ussama Makdisi (2019)(2020-11-20) Barnett, CarterItem The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World By Ralph Bauer (2019)(2020-09-22) Cañizares-Esguerra, JorgeItem America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee (2019)(2020-04-20) Cox, SheenaItem “American” state of exception : reimagining the Puerto Rican colony and the nationalist enemy under United States rule, 1900-1940(2015-05) Jimenez, Monica Alexandra; Guridy, Frank Andre; Arroyo-Martinez, Jossianna; Garrard-Burnett, Virginia; Brower, Benjamin; Engle, KarenThis dissertation reexamines the first forty years of the United States’ dominion over the island of Puerto Rico through the lens of the state of exception in order to analyze the role of race, nationalism and violence in the formation of the Puerto Rican nation. Focusing on the period before the creation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the project first engages in a legal historical analysis in order to understand how U.S. Supreme Court decisions concerning race, citizenship and the application of the U.S. Constitution served to create a state of exception on the island. These early pronouncements, known as the Insular Cases, were steeped in white supremacist and social Darwinian ideas about race and civic readiness. Through these decisions the Court left the island in an uncertain position in which certain natural, unspecified rights were granted to its inhabitants but the protections of the U.S. Constitution were not. This exclusion from the established legal order opened up a space for the proliferation of violence. The second part of the project turns to an examination of the workings of violence and the rise of nationalism in response to U.S. policies. I argue that the state of exception led to both the growth of nationalism on the island and to its violent suppression. Though much has been written with respect to the colonial status of the island and its legal uncertainty during the first half of the twentieth century, a reexamination of this history using the state of exception helps further our understandings of the role of race and violence in that dynamic. Finally, this discussion also deepens our understanding of contemporary U.S. states of exception created in pursuit of both global markets and the purported “War on Terror.”Item An empire of water and stone : the Acuecuexco Aqueduct Relief(2019-05-13) McCarthy, Katherine Ann; Guernsey, Julia, 1964-; Stuart, David, 1965-In 1499, the eighth Aztec ruler, Ahuitzotl, completed one of his last great contributions to his empire’s capital: a new aqueduct. Although initially met with jubilation across Tenochtitlan, the aqueduct soon faltered, flooding the city and causing damage that would eventually take the leader’s life. While this event marked a tragic end to Ahuitzotl’s reign, the monument carved as part of the initial celebration stands today as a reminder of the attempts and accomplishments of Aztec city planning. This monument, named the Acuecuexco Aqueduct Relief after its corresponding waterway, depicts the ruler in a scene of bloodletting, facing the date of the aqueduct’s inauguration and surrounded by feathered serpents. Ahuitzotl was famed for his many conquests that brought significant expansion to the empire, but he did not forsake the capital city, as his self-sacrificial act would suggest. Placing his image in stone at the southernmost boundary, Ahuitzotl could both take credit for the aqueduct and mark the edges of the capital. Using his own image alongside the god Quetzalcoatl, the ruler was able to declare the aqueduct as both a physical and supernatural causeway, guiding the natural and supernatural into the city. By studying the iconography of this Aqueduct Relief Carving, this paper attempts to explore the interrelationships between identity and territory within the Aztec realm, with a specific focus on water management systems. Approaching this work through the lens of art history as well as geography, this project seeks to analyze how ancient people mapped their empires and how these ideas have carried through the colonial period into present-day Mexico CityItem Antonio de Ulloa’s Relación Histórica del Viage a la America Meridional(2017-02-22) Schroer, HaleyItem Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)(2019-09-16) Marzouk Chouchene, AminaItem An Apology for Propaganda(2016-11-02) Rahimi, DavidItem The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico by Enrique Rodríguez Alegría (2016)(2018-01-31) Erwin, BrittanyItem Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment by David J. Weber (2005)(2012-03-23) Carmichael, ZacharyItem A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (1979)(2011-11-14) Parrott, JosephItem Beseiged: Voices from Delhi 1857 by Mahmood Farooqui (2010)(2011-01-26) Huacuja, IsabelItem Black Resistance and Resilience: Collected Works From Not Even Past(2020-06-03) Scott, AlinaItem Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America by John M. Monteiro (2018)(2019-05-27) Cañizares-Esguerra, JorgeItem Bloody History, Historical Recovery: Monica Munoz Martinez and the Work of the Historian(2023-03-25) Evans, ImaniItem Capitalizing on the Cold War : Hong Kong elites and America’s Pacific empire(2015-08-11) Hamilton, Peter E.; Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin; Abzug, Robert H.; Lawrence, Mark A.; Suri, Jeremi; Metzler, Mark; Carroll, JohnThis study argues that it is impossible to understand either the Cold War Pacific or post-1945 globalization without Hong Kong. Rather than just a small British colony, Hong Kong was at the center of both the Cold War’s transfer of international power from Britain to the United States and the post-1978 reintegration of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with global capitalism. In particular, this study argues that Hong Kong demonstrates a previously unstudied mode of expanding US imperial power that later structured contemporary US-PRC relations and the rapid growth of US-PRC trade. Scholars have documented the United States’ Cold War pursuit of global “hearts and minds” through overt anticommunist cultural diplomacy. This study reframes this research by arguing that the United States steered Hong Kong’s future through the subtlest manner of extending influence: the provision of curated opportunities. Due to British restraints on overt propaganda, the United States oriented this refugee-inundated territory toward US leadership by constraining local business opportunities, sponsoring the expansion of local higher education, and by facilitating enormous numbers of the colony’s youth to attend American colleges and universities. By the early 1970s Hong Kong was routinely the largest sender of foreign students to the United States and by 1990 likely the world’s most US-educated international society. In turn, the 1950 US embargo on the PRC fostered Hong Kong’s dependence on the US market and opened the colony to waves of US capital. The United States transformed into Hong Kong’s largest export market and largest outside investor. This reorientation of educational and business cultures was expansion by the sophisticated imperial technology of coopting capitalist elites, not by the US military. These US opportunities empowered the colony’s capitalists into powerful global agents. It was US-educated returnees who led in brokering outside trade and investment into the PRC through Hong Kong during the 1980s. This same class was critical in stabilizing the colony before its 1997 return to the PRC. Particularly after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, they repurposed America’s Cold War neo-imperialist systems and paved the way for the United States to rebuild economic relations with the PRC during the 1990sItem Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, by William Cronon (1983)(2018-12-03) Ritner, JesseItem #changethedate: Australia’s Holiday Controversy(2017-01-25) Flannery, Kristie