Browsing by FAS Department "History"
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Academic Freedom and Political Change: American Lessons
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Accepting difference, seeking common ground: Sino-Indian statistical exchanges 1951–1959
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016)Starting as early as 1951, and with increasing urgency after 1956, Chinese and Indian statisticians traded visits as they sought to learn from each other's experiences. At the heart of these exchanges was the desire to ... -
Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Asia: Changing Dynamics in Contemporary West Africa's Political Economy
(African Finance and Economic Association, 2011)The last two to three decades have witnessed significant transformation in West Africa’s relations to the Arabian Gulf and Asia. While ties to countries such as Saudi Arabia are historic, economic liberalization since the ... -
The Air Cure Town: Commodifying Mountain Air in Alpine Central Europe
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012)Does air have value? In the first volume of Capital, Marx suggested it did not: “A thing can be a use-value, without having value,” he explained. “This is the case whenever its utility to man is not due to labour. Such are ... -
Als wär’ es ein Stuck von uns . . . German Politics and Society Traverses Twenty Years of United Germany
(Berghahn Journals, 2010)This essay looks at postunification Germany through the pages of German Politics and Society. The articles published during this period reveal the evolution of intellectuals' understanding of the unified country—concerns ... -
Ameliorating Empire: Slavery and Protection in the British Colonies, 1783-1865
(2014-10-21)This dissertation examines the era of slavery amelioration while situating the significance of this project to reform slavery within the longer history of the British Empire. While scholars of British slavery have long ... -
American Lucifers: Makers and Masters of the Means of Light, 1750-1900
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the social history of Atlantic and American free and unfree labor by focusing on the production and consumption of the means of light from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. ... -
Americans on Paper: Identity and Identification in the American Revolution
(2013-10-18)The American Revolution brought with it a crisis of identification. The political divisions that fragmented American society did not distinguish adherents of the two sides in any outward way. Yet the new American governments ... -
"And still the Youth are coming": Youth and popular politics in Ghana, c. 1900-1979
(2015-05-16)This dissertation explores the significance of the youth in the popular politics of 20th-century Ghana. Based on two and half years of archival and field research in Ghana and Britain, the dissertation investigates the ... -
Antidepressants and Advertising: Psychopharmaceuticals in Crisis
(YJBM, 2012)As the efficacy and science of psychopharmaceuticals has become increasingly uncertain, marketing of these drugs to both physicians and consumers continues to a central part of a multi-billion dollar per year industry in ... -
Aoko, Gaudencia
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The Appropriation of Native Status: Forming and Reforming Insiders and Outsiders in the Spanish Colonial World
(Max Planck Institut fur europaische Rechtsgeschichte, 2014)This article examines the different meanings of native status in Spanish America. It argues that the classification of Indigenous peoples as »natives« was not meant to reflect a reality of indigeneity as many have assumed, ... -
The Archives of Universal History
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2008)This article looks at early proposals for an international archive, at the different respects in which archives are international or transnational, and at the development since 1946 of the archives of international ... -
Archivos de conocimiento y la cultura legal de la publicidad en la Marsella medieval
(Editorial CSIC, 1997)Based on a case study of Marseille in the fourteenth century, this article argues that a foundational metaphor of medieval legal culture was publicity, even in the late medieval world where the written norms of Roman law ... -
Are We All Global Historians Now? An Interview with David Armitage
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The Asian Origins of Global Narcotics Control, c. 1860-1909
(2014-06-06)This dissertation traces the ferment of private ressentiment, public protest and political response to the Asian opium trade from the "Second Opium War (1856-60) to the first, multilateral anti-drug summit in human history, ... -
At the Origins of Welfare Policy: Law and the Economy in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean (1150-1350)
(2014-10-21)This dissertation is an economic and institutional history of the first comprehensive public health and welfare system in the Western world. Based on previously unexamined archival and archaeological evidence from several ... -
Banishing Usury: The Expulsion of Foreign Moneylenders in Medieval Europe, 1200-1450
(2015-08-04)Starting in the mid-thirteenth century, kings, bishops, and local rulers throughout western Europe repeatedly ordered the banishment of foreigners who were lending at interest. The expulsion of these foreigners, mostly ... -
Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution, 1892-1922
(2013-10-14)This dissertation describes and analyzes the financial boom that made Russia the largest net international debtor in the world by 1914, as well as the Bolshevik default of 1918 -- one of the biggest in international financial ...