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 …
Abstract of “Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1790-1840” by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015 Manufacturing Advantage …
This dissertation analyzes the British pharmaceutical trade to argue that the manufacture and exchange of medicines accelerated global integration and settler-colonialism during the long eighteenth …
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, …
“Palatable Slavery: Food, Race, and Freedom in the British Atlantic, 1627-1852” unpacks the cultural and sociopolitical significance of food in Barbados and the broader British …
This dissertation explores early English colonial and American science. Although early modern European and American scholars have largely dismissed the seventeenth century as a period …
In this transdisciplinary dissertation, the author takes up the concept of anatomy theatre, exceeding its physical and historical location and applying it as/in the science …
This study offers a new perspective on the origins of intellectual property in the French sciences. It does so by investigating the distinctive procedures, protocols, …
Abstract of “The Unruly Body or ‘the New Normal’: Renaissance Pathology and the Literary Imagination,” by Yuri Kondratiev, Ph.D, Brown University, May 2014 Conceived at …