Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Author "Beckert, Sven"
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A Capitalizing City: Dar Es Salaam and the Emergence of an African Entrepreneurial Elite (C. 1862-2015)
Chachage, Chambi Seithy (2018-09-19)A Capitalizing City charts the ways some people of African descent in Dar es Salaam, the commercial and industrial capital of Tanzania, have attempted, historically, to either integrate into the modern capitalist system ... -
China and the Atlantic World: From John Cabot to the Age of Revolutions
Sun, Hongzhe (2021-09-28)Like modern-day Americans, Americans in the early modern period interacted with China extensively. They read books about China in libraries and purchased them from booksellers, they discussed both great things about the ... -
Cold War Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Military Spending, 1947-1990
Barker, Tim (2022-06-06)Abstract Cold War Capitalism The Political Economy of American Military Spending, 1947-1990 Everyone knows that the relationship between capital and the state was transformed by the Great Depression, but historians of ... -
Invisible Giant: The Global Rise of Soy in the Twentieth Century
Steely, Rachel C (2022-05-12)Prior to the twentieth century, the soybean was largely unknown beyond East Asia. Since that time, this inconspicuous legume has catapulted from obscurity to become one of the most widely grown crops in the world and a ... -
The Labor of Law and Order: How Police Unions Transformed Policing and Politics in the United States, 1939-1985
Bekemeyer, Aaron Thomas (2021-11-16)This project narrates the rise of the police union movement in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how after World War II, a segment of predominantly white, male rank-and-file officers ... -
The Politics of Confinement: Indigenous Homelands, Carceral Imperialism, and the Making of the Deep North
Gill, Balraj Kaur (2022-10-03)This dissertation examines Indigenous and settler-colonial geographies and politics, and their relationship to processes of incarceration and other forms of confinement. Anchored in Očhéthi Šakówiŋ history, it examines ...