Browsing by Department "History"
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"A great army of instruction" : American teachers and the negotiation of empire in the Philippines
(2013-05)In the summer of 1901, the United States government began a project of colonial education in the Philippines, sending close to one thousand teachers to the newly-acquired colony. These teachers, called “Thomasites,” were ... -
A historical study on penal confinement and institutional life in southern Nigeria, 1860-1956
(2013-12)This dissertation fills an existing gap in Nigerian historiography by exploring the history of penal confinement and prisons in Southern Nigeria. Using archival materials and other historical sources including autobiographies, ... -
A long quavering chant : peonage labor camps in the rural-industrial South, 1905-1965
(2013-05)This dissertation is a study of social and environmental conditions inside rural industrial labor camps throughout the U.S. South between 1905 and 1965. The use of peonage labor, i.e., the coercion of labor against ones’ ... -
A region in a mobile world : integration of southeastern sub-Himalayan region into the global capitalist economy (1820-1900)
(2016-01-07)This essay considers the history of two commodities, tea in Georgian England and opium in imperial China, with the objective of explaining the connected histories in the Eurasian landmass. It suggests that an exploration ... -
The aberration of Eritrean secession, 1961-1993
(2011-05)Despite its reputation for instability and weak states, the continent of Africa has seen very few attempts at secession. The 1960s saw the early attempts of Katanga and Biafra to split away from their host states, only ... -
Above and below: peasants and miners in Oruro and Northern Potosí, Bolivia (1899-1929)
(2005)During the first three decades of the twentieth century, massive industrial mining operations developed among the wind-swept hills and steppes of the Andean highlands. From out of these isolated mining camps arose one ... -
The adventures of Luis Alvarez : identy politics in the making of an American science
(2011-12)In the 1930s and 1940s, American atomic physicists developed an identity akin to those ethnic identities developed by Chicanos and African Americans in the 1960s. Tremendous successes in high-energy physics put these ... -
African diaspora in reverse : the Tabom people in Ghana, 1820s-2009
(2010-05)The early 1800s witnessed the exodus of former slaves from Brazil to Africa. A number of slaves migrated after gaining manumission. Others were deported after they were accused of committing various “crimes” and after slave ... -
Africans and their descendants in colonial Costa Rica, 1600-1750
(2005)The societies from which they came, patterns of the Atlantic slave trade, and local conditions in the societies in which they arrived all decisively influenced the varied experiences of enslaved Africans in the Americas. ... -
Against the law: violence, crime, state repression, and black resistance in Jim Crow Mississippi
(2006)This study examines the role and meaning of violence and crime in racial contestations in Mississippi in the era before the emergence of a mass civil rights movement. By conceiving of violence and crime as subjective, ... -
Alberto Hurtado : a biographical study of his Jesuit training, 1923-1936
The aim of this doctoral dissertation is to examine the Jesuit training received by the priest Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga between 1923, when he joined the religious order, and February 1936, when he returned to Chile. Although ... -
Algebra's Tragic Hero
(2018-05)This work argues that the 19th century French mathematician, Évariste Galois, died in a duel of love rather than of politics. It also proposes that, contrary to the legend that the mathematical establishment unfairly ... -
Aligarh's First Generation: Muslim Solidarity in British India by David Lelyveld
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American emigrants: confederate, socialist and Mormon colonies in Mexico
(2016-05)This dissertation discusses three different colonization schemes of Americans in Mexico—Confederates in the wake of the US Civil War and Reconstruction who refused to live under the Union government, a group of who tried ... -
American Hercules: The Creation of Babe Ruth as an American Icon
(2018-05)Like no other athlete before or since, Babe Ruth’s popularity has endured long after his playing days ended. His name has entered the popular lexicon, where “Ruthian” is a synonym for a superhuman feat, and other greats ... -
“American” state of exception : reimagining the Puerto Rican colony and the nationalist enemy under United States rule, 1900-1940
(2015-05)This 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 ... -
Amid the ruins: the reconstruction of Smolensk Oblast, 1943-1953
(2018-08-07)The first Red Army soldiers that entered Smolensk in the fall of 1943 were met with a bleak landscape. The town was now an empty shell and the countryside a vast wasteland. The survivors emerged from their cellars and huts ... -
Animal kingdoms : princely power, the environment, and the hunt in colonial India
(2009-12)Shaped in part by diverse landscapes, game profiles, and ruling personalities, hunting in the Indian princely states in the colonial period was heterogeneous to a previously unrecognized extent. At the same time, significant ...
