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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 ...
The Heartland Abroad: The Rotary Club's Mission of Civic Internationalism.
(2008)
The expansion of Rotary International (RI) from 1912 to World War II expressed the going abroad of U.S. businessmen in a period of U.S. global ascendance. Service to the community – both local and international – was the ...
Knowledge and Governance: Political Socialization of the Indian Child within Colonial Schooling and Nationalist Contestations in India (1870-1925).
(2010)
This dissertation examines two sites of knowledge production in colonial India between 1870 and 1925 that specifically targeted the Indian child. The first site was the colonial school and curriculum, specifically, textbooks ...
The Wheel of Fortune in Eighteenth-Century France: The Lottery, Consumption, and Politics.
(2009)
This dissertation examines the growth and development of lotteries in eighteenth-century France. Lotteries first arrived in France in 1539, but those early lotteries were always temporary. The eighteenth century saw the ...
Scenes of Belonging: Cinema and the Nationality Question in Soviet Ukraine during the Long 1960s.
(2008)
This dissertation examines the aesthetics of Soviet cinema and the politics of filmmaking in Soviet Ukraine during the 1960s as a lens through which to view the mechanisms of defining and representing national difference. ...
Reconciling the Revolution: Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Community in the Wake of Civil War in South Carolina, 1775-1860.
(2007)
This dissertation examines a successful example of reconciliation between former enemies after civil war: South Carolina’s reintegration of Loyalists. At the end of a bruising guerilla civil war, South Carolina’s legislature, ...
Building Siwilai : Transformation of Architecture and Architectural Pricetice in Siam during the Reign of Rama V, 1868 - 1910.
(2011)
This dissertation is an interpretation of architectural transformation in Siam from the mid-nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. During the reign of King Rama V (1868 to 1910). Siamese aristocrats ...
Reconceptualizing Southern Vietnamese History from the 15th to the 18th Centuries: Competition along the Coasts from Guangdong to Cambodia.
(2011)
This study is a preliminary step toward a more systematic analysis of the standard dynastic histories and other sources, with a focus on the region called Cochinchina and its connections with nearby territories. I note ...