Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Empire"
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Colonial Reformation: Religion, Empire, and the Origins of Modern Social Thought
(2022-05-02)This dissertation tells a new story about the origins of the modern European social sciences. I set out to understand why the founders of French sociology and anthropology, including Émile Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, and Claude ... -
Jihad and Other Universalisms: Arab-Bosnian Encounters in the U.S. World Order
(2013-03-08)This dissertation uses the experiences of Arab Islamist fighters in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) to rethink prevailing notions of world order. These actors are frequently glossed as “foreign fighters”: ... -
Judging the World: International Courts and the Origins of Global Governance, 1899-1971
(2023-05-11)Today, international courts are everywhere. There are hundreds of them, located on every inhabited continent. Together, they have delivered tens of thousands of decisions. International courts do everything from prosecuting ... -
Political Ecologies and the Transformation of Landscape in the Early Modern Delaware Valley
(2024-03-12)This dissertation uses the concept of political ecology to explore the nature of colonization and the subsequent landscape transformation in the early modern Delaware Valley. The question of how European colonization changed ... -
Subject to Adaptation: Race and French Atlantic Narratives (Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries)
(2021-05-19)“Subject to Adaptation: Race and French Atlantic Narratives (Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries)” considers literature’s role in shaping understandings of “race.” I trace how representations of Blackness in particular shift ... -
Territorial Discontent: Chamorros, Filipinos, and the Making of the United States Empire on Guam
(2021-11-16)“Territorial Discontent” is a century-long history of how the United States military shaped the colonial administration of Guam as a U.S. unincorporated territory from 1898 to 1997, and how the indigenous Chamorro people ...