Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by FAS Department "History"
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The Conversion of the World in the Early Republic: Race, Gender, and Imperialism in the Early American Foreign Mission Movement
(2012-12-19)This is a transnational history of the early republic that focuses on religious actors. The early American foreign mission movement was an outward-looking expression of the benevolent network of the early republic. Building ... -
Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1865-Present
(2016-05-18)“Crisis Capital” offers a local history of global capitalism and a global history of local economic development, exploring how the global movements and political struggles of industry, labor, and capital created, destroyed, ... -
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages, c. 500 – c. 1000
(2016-05-18)Early medieval Europe is not well known for its crowds, unlike Antiquity or the later Middle Ages. After sixth-century demographic and urban decline, crowds were smaller, less spontaneous, and easier to control than in ... -
Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Defiance in the Japanese Army, 1860-1931
(2015-05-14)Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for following their superiors to certain death. Their enemies in the Pacific War perceived their obedience as blind, and derided them as “cattle”. Yet the Japanese Army was arguably ... -
Darkology: The Hidden History of Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of Modern America, 1860-1970
(2016-05-16)Darkology: The Hidden History of Amateur Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of Modern America, 1860-1970 develops a critical bibliography and uses material culture to uncover the pervasive world of amateur blackface ... -
"Endearing Ties": Black Family Life in Early New England
(2016-05-19)This dissertation explores the attempts of Africans, both enslaved and free, to create and maintain families in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. It makes sense of a remarkable array of historical actors: ... -
The Envelope of Global Trade: The Political Economy and Intellectual History of Jute in the Bengal Delta, 1850s to 1950s
(2013-03-05)During the second half of the nineteenth century, peasant smallholders in the Bengal delta – an alluvial tract formed out of the silt deposits of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna river-systems – expanded their cultivation ... -
Experts of the World Economy: European Stabilization and the Reshaping of International Order, 1916-51
(2016-09-14)This dissertation traces the origins of the earliest international schemes to manage the world economy between the middle of the First World War and the conclusion of the Second. It follows the emergence of a transnational ... -
The Eye of the Tsar: Intelligence-Gathering and Geopolitics in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia
(2016-04-29)This dissertation argues for the importance of knowledge production for understanding the relationship between the Russian Empire, the Qing Dynasty, and European actors, from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth ... -
Feeding Kansas: Food, Famine, and Relief in Contested Territory
(2016-01-21)“Feeding Kansas” is an analysis of how food and its availability shaped the experiences of settlers and Native Americans in the two decades following the opening of Kansas Territory in 1854. From the outset, food was central ... -
Free to Move? The Law and Politics of Internal Migration in Twentieth-Century America
(2013-09-23)The history of the United States in the mid-twentieth century is, in significant measure, a history of internal migration. Between 1930 and 1970, as national quota laws kept the nation's foreign-born population at record ... -
Freedom from Value Judgments: Value-Free Social Science and Objectivity in Germany, 1880-1914
(2013-08-12)This dissertation addresses a central issue in the methodological debates that raged in the German academy around the turn of the twentieth century. The idea of "value-free" social science, or "value-freedom," was passed ... -
From Reform to Revolution: the Transformation of Cuba’s Education System, 1959–62
(2016-09-21)This thesis examines the transformation of Cuba’s educational system from 1959 to 1962 as a case study for the limits of liberal reforms during the Cold War. It explores the birth of the revolutionary state and society, ... -
The Global Lettered City: Humanism and Empire in Colonial Latin America and the Early Modern World
(2016-05-10)Historians have long recognized the symbiotic relationship between learned culture, urban life and Iberian expansion in the creation of “Latin” America out of the ruins of pre-Columbian polities, a process described most ... -
Global Positioning: Houqua and His China Trade Partners in the Nineteenth Century
(2012-07-23)This study unearths the lost world of early-nineteenth-century Canton. Known today as Guangzhou, this Chinese city witnessed the economic dynamism of global commerce until the demise of the Canton System in 1842. Records ... -
Governing Islam: Law and Religion in Colonial India
(2013-08-09)This dissertation charts how the legal regulation of Islam in colonial India fostered a conception of religion that focused on dividing it from secular economy and politics. Colonial law segregated religious law from other ... -
The Grand Old Man: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Evolution of the Demand for Indian Self-Government
(2015-05-18)This dissertation traces the thought and career of Dadabhai Naoroji, arguably the most significant Indian nationalist leader in the pre-Gandhian era. Naoroji (1825-1917) gave the Indian National Congress a tangible political ... -
A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present
(2014-06-06)How does the condition of statelessness, which is usually thought of as a political problem, affect the economic and monetary lives of ordinary people? -
Holding the Empire Together: Caracas Under the Spanish Resistance During the Napoleonic Invasion of Iberia
(2014-06-06)The Napoleonic invasion of Iberia shattered the Spanish empire in 1808. The French emperor occupied Spain and forced Ferdinand VII to abdicate the throne. Once the war against the French began, most vassals also rejected ... -
Imagining Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish, Roman and Byzantine Concepts of Space and Power in the Slavlands, c. 750-900
(2014-10-21)This dissertation offers a comparative cross-cultural investigation into the imagination of space in three sibling centers of civilization driving the formative expansion of Europe in the early Middle Ages: the Frankish ...