By the middle of the twentieth century, youth featured prominently in the global lexicon of modernity, embodying rupture from the old and embrace of the …
This dissertation connects two seemingly contradictory trends that emerged across the twentieth century: the gradual liberalization of sexual prohibitions and the mounting force of a …
Between 1894 and 1898, Jewish American attorney, Max Kohler, served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Southern District of New York, prosecuting federal immigration …
This dissertation explores the political, cultural and social identities of middle class Americans in the post-World War I period - their greatest moment of class …
This thesis addresses a gap of historical information and analysis regarding women’s social history in Ottoman Bosnia during the long 17th century. It contends that …
In the late 1960s, a small group of Afro-Caribbean immigrant families from Britain’s Windrush generation came together to provide their children with academically rigorous and …
This thesis reconstructs the imaginary of China that motivated sectors of the Brazilian leftist opposition, particularly the Communist Party of Brazil (Partido Comunista do Brasil, …
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black residents of Providence, Rhode Island, organized the city’s Black Power movement, a local expression of the international …
By looking into the role of Blackness, or negritud, in nineteenth-century discourses of nation I seek to formulate a new understanding of Mexico's national identity, …
The thesis questions how the new ideals and beliefs introduced with Christianity altered the emotional landscape of Norse people in Iceland and Norway . I …
This dissertation examines the influence of voluntary youth clubs administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) -- known popularly as 4-H clubs -- …
Scholars of mission history have explored and debated the connection between missionaries and empire. Some scholars have depicted missionaries as agents of imperialism; others have …
Paradoxically, the concept of the rights-bearing human at the core of humanitarian legislation and action developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries alongside …
“Brothers, Colleagues, and Power in Imperial Rome” Abstract Sam Caldis Ph.D., Brown University, May 2019 The Roman Empire was founded by one man, Augustus (27 …
This dissertation reveals how the US military played a decisive role in the development of global capitalism since World War II. During the Cold War, …
This dissertation examines Catholic contributions to the emergence of religio-political ideologies central to the mid-seventeenth century revolutions in the British world. Using printed material and …
This thesis concerns the power of utilizing the legal system to change discriminatory practices in the workplace, while also recognizing the limitations of the law …
