Browsing by FAS Department "History"
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Before 1962: The Case for 1950s China-India History
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-07-20)China-India history of the 1950s remains mired in concerns related to border demarcations and a teleological focus on the causes, course, and consequences of the war of 1962. The result is an overt emphasis on diplomatic ... -
Believing in the Black Messiah: The Legio Maria Church in an African Christian Landscape
(University of California Press, 2009)This article examines the Legio Maria Church of western Kenya, a relatively rare example of schism from the Roman Catholic Church in Africa. One of more than seven thousand African Initiated Churches in existence today, ... -
Best Interests: Feminists, Social Science, and the Revaluing of Working Mothers in Modern America
(2013-03-06)This dissertation traces the formation, development, and deployment of arguments in favor of maternal employment from the years before World War II through the mid-1990s. Drawing on academic journals, popular periodicals, ... -
Between history and nation: Paul Robert Magocsi and the rewriting of Ukrainian history
(Informa UK Limited, 2011)"Getting history wrong is an essential factor in the formation of a nation,” wrote Ernest Renan, basing this observation on his analysis of the nation-building experience in nineteenth-century Europe (qtd. in Eric Hobsbawm, ... -
Between Surprise and Social Science
(European University Institute, 2009)Social scientists and historians have been living in a world of unexpected outcomes. The revival of passionate political ideologies in the l960s, the reversal of predicted secularization in the modern world, the collapse ... -
Between the Arctic & the Adriatic: Polar Exploration, Science & Empire in the Habsburg Monarchy
(2014-10-21)Exploration was a defining aspect of how European societies encountered and established relations with the wider world. It set the stage for worldwide empires and laid the foundations for understandings of planetary ... -
Between the Pen and the Fields: Books on Farming, Changing Land Regimes, and Urban Agriculture in the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean Ca. 1500-1700
(2016-09-23)This dissertation goes “between the pen and the fields” in that it explores the relationship between the Ottoman discourse on farming as reflected in manuscripts, and the material and economic realities of farming shown ... -
Blogging, Now and Then (250 Years Ago)
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)Long before the Internet, Europeans exchanged information in ways that anticipated blogging. The key element of their information system was the “anecdote,” a term that meant nearly the opposite then from what it means ... -
Bohemians Before Bohemianism
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Book Review: Indian Ocean In The Balance
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Book Review: Kenneth M. Cuno, Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology, and Law in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Egypt.
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016) -
Books and Their Readers in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
(2016-05-17)This study contributes to the cultural and intellectual history of the early modern Middle East by analyzing how books were produced and circulated, and which audiences existed for various types of books in the Ottoman ... -
Books in the British Raj: The Contradictions of Liberal Imperialism
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The Brissot Dossier
(Duke University Press, 1991) -
The Bureaucracy of Honor. The Habsburg Consular Service and the History of Emotions
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018-12-01)I use the personnel files of three consuls in the Austro-Hungarian foreign service to consider the ways Habsburg bureaucracy recorded the emotional lives of civil servants. Consuls were expected to interact with Habsburg ... -
Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
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The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800
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Business, Water, and the Global City: Germany, Europe, and China, 1820-1950
(2013-10-18)The dissertation examines the evolving role of Germans under the auspices of European imperialism in modern China's hydraulic management and economic globalization. In the early nineteenth-century, Germans were on the ... -
Calamity’s Empire: Slavery, Scarcity, and the Political Economy of Provisioning in the British Caribbean, C. 1775-1834
(2016-08-26)This dissertation examines how practical and conceptual concerns over ensuring the basic needs of colonial subjects shaped the political economy of slavery and empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century ...