India has long been an enduring puzzle in the literature on democracy and development. Even with its high levels of poverty and deeply multi-ethnic society, …
This dissertation looks at different forms of historical practice to argue that the 1970s saw a significant transformation in the ways that individuals, groups, and …
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 …
Interwar family magazines formed a novel category of consumption, moreover, one that transformed social practices around reading. The seeds of Japan's postwar love affair with …
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of Heiner Müller’s dramatic work, focusing not only on the depiction of history in his texts and stage productions …
This study examines how various gendered forces?social, cultural, and other?combined to shape a new national identity in France following the Second World War. During the …
This dissertation examines the intersections of food, politics, city, and the environment during fascist Italy. Using Rome as an example, the capital that was heavily …
This dissertation argues that the everyday is a phenomenon invented along with capitalist modernity and modern technologies of representation, and that cinema is one of …
“In Search of the ‘Racist White Psyche’: Racism and the Psychology of Prejudice in American Social Thought, 1930-1960” traces the efforts of the pioneering generation …
This dissertation examines the social history of women’s third order monastic communities in early modern Italy. First third order communities emerged in the thirteenth century, …
This Dissertation explores the interaction of performance and warfare in the framework of colonial and post-colonial times. The issues in question unfold in relationship with …
This dissertation examines the politics of race and urban space in Boston’s Chinatown from 1943 to 1994. A diverse downtown neighborhood that survived multiple cycles …
Using canonization as a framework to engage the process of history creation and collective memory, this thesis seeks to understand why certain narratives gain a …
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Manila Galleons funneled thousands of free and enslaved Asians from the Philippines to New Spain. The social and …
In spring of 1973, the Southeastern Iowa city of Fairfield lost its beloved Parsons College to bankruptcy. What followed in the coming months was unforeseen: …
This dissertation argues that nineteenth-century Americans built the preconditions needed for a mathematical economy to emerge in the early twentieth century. When Americans debated what …
The thesis explores the histories of five displaced communities in Providence: The Narragansett Tribe, Colonial Black Heritage, Chinatown, Lippitt Hill, and Fox Point. Each of …
