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 ... -
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, ... -
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” 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 ... -
Another way out : the wartime communist movement in Jiangsu, 1937-1945
(2012-05)This dissertation examines the survival and expansion strategies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by focusing on its organization and mobilization activities during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945). I ... -
Anti-Chinese violence in the American northwest : from community politics to international diplomacy, 1885-1888
(2002-05)This dissertation examines two interrelated historical processes. First, it analyzes the reciprocal influences of politically-motivated representations of events and concrete action. Beginning with the expulsion of Chinese ... -
The Augustinian canons of St. Ursus : reform, identity, and the practice of place in Medieval Aosta
(2011-05)This dissertation studies a local manifestation of ecclesiastical reform in the medieval county of Savoy: the twelfth-century transformation of secular canons into Augustinian regular canons at the church of Sts. Peter and ... -
Becoming the vanguard : children, the Young Pioneers, and the Soviet state in the Great Patriotic War
(2009-05)This dissertation combines institutional history and social analysis to provide a more nuanced depiction of the Soviet experience in the Great Patriotic War, a portrait which considers the experience of children, the state’s ... -
The Beginnings of Modern Growth in Europe: An Essay in Synthesis
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Betty and Jane : two OSS women who waged psychological warfare in a forgotten theater
(2014-05)This dissertation is a personal narrative reconstruction of the lives and careers of Elizabeth MacDonald and Jane Foster, who served with the Office of Strategic Services in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War ... -
Between protection and punishment : children, sexual crimes and law in Buenos Aires, 1853-1912
(2015-12)This dissertation examines how “children” emerged as a discrete social group through the codification of penal law in Argentina, and the prosecution of sexual deviance in the criminal courts of Buenos Aires. Between 1853 ...
