Universities were among the most consequential institutions of the later middle ages, but in their formative years their success was threatened by the vehement critiques …
Abstract of A FRAGILE INHERITANCE: THE FATE OF YIDDISH IN ARGENTINA, 1930-1970, by AMY K. KERNER, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2019. Mass migrations of ethnic …
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 …
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 study examines the diplomatic relationship among the Republic of China, Peru, Paraguay, and Panama during the Cold War period. It uses ideology and pragmatism …
This dissertation is a history of the roots of local genocide. It tells the story of the surreal familiarity underpinning the dynamics of mass murder …
This dissertation traces the erotic lives and legal battles of Argentine and Spanish queer people who carved their own social spaces in urban and rural …
This dissertation examines the transforming idea in German political thought for a “Middle European” cultural, economic, and political sphere from the late-nineteenth century until the …
Thousands of formerly enslaved men serving in the army deserted and orchestrated mutinies during the U.S. Civil War. They were tried, convicted, and either incarcerated …
This dissertation studies the role of Egypt’s Mediterranean port cities of Alexandria, Rashid (Rosetta), and Dimyat (Damietta) in the political economy of the Ottoman Empire …
Historians have characterized the early nineteenth century as the birth of the modern world, pointing to a series of developments—the collapse of European colonialism in …
During the long fifteenth century (ca. 1398–1530), women were by far the most prolific writers and voracious readers within urban and monastic centers of southern …
This dissertation is a social history of war that examines the origins, wartime experience, and the social, political, and cultural legacies of soldiers in Latvian …
Abstract of FRONTIER ONTOLOGIES: LAND, AGRARIAN GOVERNANCE, AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRITISH INDIA’S NORTHWEST AND NORTHEAST, 1840-1930, by ABHILASH MEDHI, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2020 This …
This dissertation investigates the roles of maps and geographic knowledge in shaping territorial discourses and people’s understanding of the nation-state in early twentieth-century China. Focusing …