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Jews, Poles, and Slovaks: A Story of Encounters, 1944-48.
(2008)
After the Holocaust (1944-48), Jewish survivors returned to Poland and Slovakia to face the loss of their families, material destruction of their homes, lack of basic supplies and the absence of safety and security. In ...
Momotaro, or the Peach Boy: Japan's Best-Loved Folktale as National Allegory.
(2009)
This dissertation argues that folktales, and in particular the Momotarō tale, were important to the construction of national identity in Japan through the interrelated discourses of minzokugaku, kyōdo kenkyū (local studies), ...
Empire of Culture: U.S. Entertainers and the Making of the Pacific Circuit, 1850-1890.
(2010)
During the mid-nineteenth century, the ongoing development of a robust and expansive U.S. culture industry dovetailed with the emergence of a recognizable Pacific world shaped by the integrative forces of colonialism and ...
Unfit for Bondage: Disability and African American Slavery in the United States, 1800-1860.
(2010)
Concepts of race and disability were mutually constituted in nineteenth-century American culture. Antebellum observers described racial differences in terms of physical or mental disability, particularly in the context of ...
Reading Medieval Religious Disputation: The 1240 "Debate" Between Rabbi Yehiel of Paris and Friar Nicholas Donin.
(2008)
This dissertation takes as its subject the Latin and Hebrew accounts of a much-studied event: the Jewish-Christian Disputation of 1240. In medieval Europe's first formal religious debate, Friar Nicholas Donin challenged ...
The Fruits of Citizenship: African Americans, Military Service, and the Cause of Cuba Libre, 1868-1920.
(2009)
The Fruits of Citizenship examines the multiple links between African American political activism and the United States' involvement in the War for Cuban Independence. It explores the overlapping and entangled histories ...
Negro: Travel and the Pan-African Imagination during the Nineteenth Century.
(2010)
This dissertation is about the role that conservative religious notions of racial ideology played in the historical origins of black nationalism and pan-Africanism. It is a delineation of the origins of black nationalism ...
An Uneasy Alliance: Traders, Missionaries, and Tamil Intermediaries in Eighteenth-Century French India.
(2011)
This dissertation examines the fraught intersection of commerce and conversion in the eighteenth-century French empire in India. I analyze the profound conflicts between the state-sponsored French projects of trade and ...
Empire in the Air: Speed, Perception, and Airline Travel in the Atlantic World.
(2007)
The dissertation is an historical ethnography of air. Specifically, it concerns the
relationship between airspace, airline travel, and empire. By examining how airline
travel transformed motion and movement, it argues that ...
Liberal Imperialism: The Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism in U.S. - China Relations and the Origins of the Cold War, 1898-1945.
(2010)
This dissertation is a study of the rise and fall of liberal internationalism in U.S.-China relations from the late-nineteenth century until the end of WWII. I argue that framing the history of U.S.-China relations in this ...