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Puerto Rico and the Promise of United States Citizenship: Struggles around Status in a New Empire, 1898-1917.
(2010)
By invading and annexing Puerto Rico and other Spanish lands in 1898-1899, the United States took an imperial turn that unsettled its constitutional order. This dissertation traces responses by two groups—one within the ...
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 ...
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 ...
A River Imaginary: Nature and Narrative in the Columbia River Gorge.
(2010)
The Columbia River, one of the most dominant geographic features of the Pacific Northwest, drains nearly 259,000 square miles of territory as it traverses local, state, and national boundaries. From its headwaters in ...
The Company that Taught the World to Sing: Coca-Cola, Globalization, and the Cultural Politics of Branding in the Twentieth Century.
(2011)
Straddling the conventionally separate spheres of business history and cultural history, policy making, advertising, and mass entertainment, my dissertation traces Coca-Cola’s trajectory from a local business in Atlanta, ...