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Conversion and Empire: Byzantine Missionaries, Foreign Rulers, and Christian Narratives (ca. 300-900)
(2011)
This dissertation explores specific episodes in the history of Byzantine Christian missions into foreign lands between the fourth century and the ninth century. According to tradition, this period brought about Eastern ...
Don't Blame Us: Grassroots Liberalism in Massachusetts, 1960-1990.
(2010)
“Don’t Blame Us” recasts the conventional narratives of modern liberalism, civil rights, suburban politics, and electoral realignment through an examination of the political culture and grassroots activism in the liberal ...
"In Their Place": Marking and Unmarking Shi'ism in Pahlavi Iran.
(2011)
This dissertation reevaluates early Shi'ite nationalism in Pahlavi Iran (1925-79). It asks why it is that the Shi’ite ulama were among the Shah’s most loyal supporters during the 1953 coup that restored him to power, yet ...
Early Modern Spain and the Creation of the Mediterranean: Captivity, Commerce, and Knowledge.
(2011)
Scholars have claimed that the commercial waning of the Mediterranean at the turn of the seventeenth century and the increasing volume of captives reflected how the sea had lost its earlier unity, and subsequently began a ...
Building the Ivory Tower: Campus Planning, University Development, and the Politics of Urban Space.
(2010)
In this dissertation I argue that the physical growth of American universities throughout the twentieth century held significant implications for the larger metropolitan order of their host communities. Indeed, universities ...
The Rise and Fall of Wealth Taxation: An Inquiry into the Fiscal History of the American States.
(2010)
This dissertation examines the history of fiscal politics and policy in the American states. It provides a narrative synthesis from the antebellum period through the 1930s, during which state governments created a fiscal ...
Not as supplicants but as citizens: Race, party, and african american politics in Boston, Massachusetts, 1864-1903
(2011)
This project examines African American political culture in Boston, Massachusetts and the intersection of partisan and race-based urban politics from the beginning of Reconstruction in 1864 through the emergence of the ...
The American Reformation: The Politics of Religious Liberty, Charleston and New York 1770-1830.
(2012)
This study argues that churches were important sites in which early Americans invented and participated in politics. Revolutionary Charlestonians and New Yorkers—Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish alike—self-consciously ...
Kahiki Native Hawaiian Relationships with Other Pacific Islanders 1850-1915.
(2011)
This dissertation examines how Native Hawaiians understood, promoted, and shaped relationships with other Pacific Islanders between 1850 and 1907, and explores the ways in which these relationships proved critical. It ...
The Closet and the Cul de Sac: Sex, Politics, and Suburbanization in Postwar California.
(2010)
“The Closet and the Cul de Sac” connects the history of state-sponsored repression after World War II to the outbreak of the “culture wars” over gay rights in the United States in the 1970s. Using the San Francisco Bay ...