Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "European history"
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A Life for Freedom: German Anarcho-Syndicalism and Transnational Antifascism, 1918-1951
(2022-09-09)This dissertation investigates the “long” history of interwar German anarcho-syndicalism and its international connections, from the German Revolution in November 1918 until the crystallization of a new global order at the ... -
Activism and Music in Poland, 1978-1989
(2013-03-08)This dissertation presents a historical study of intersections between music and activism in Poland from the election of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II in 1978 to Poland’s first democratic elections in 1989. ... -
Affecting Lives: The Politics of Biography in Modern Italy, 1850-1881
(2013-08-09)This study examines the spread of in-life biographies (biographies written and published while their subjects were still alive) in Italy during the later years of the Risorgimento and the early years of Unification. These ... -
The American Mahler: Musical Modernism and Transatlantic Networks, 1920-1960
(2013-09-30)By the 1960s, the music of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler had become an exceptionally--and enduringly--popular part of American concert life. But for much of the twentieth century, the place of Mahler's music in America's ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Free and Bound: Abolition and Forced Labor in the French Empire
(2021-07-12)In 1817 the French crown began the process of abolishing the Atlantic slave trade, a decade after Britain and the United States. At the same moment, France sought to expand the plantation complex in colonies in Africa and ... -
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 ... -
The Goblet of Philip the Good. Precious Vessels at the Court of Burgundy
(2013-02-19)Vessels made of precious materials such as gold, silver and hardstone once filled the treasuries of late medieval rulers and were counted among their most valuable and representative possessions. Only a minimal fraction ... -
Grounding Community: On the Reception of Eckhartian Mysticism in Reformist and Revolutionary Texts From the Late Middle Ages to the Fin de Siècle.
(2023-11-21)This project examines how texts in the tradition of Meister Eckhart became productive in the conceptualization, imagination, and creation of new communities. It explores the influence of mystical thought on reformist, ... -
(Hi)story-telling and Holy War: Narrating the Crusades from Medieval to Early Modern France
(2023-05-11)“(Hi)story-telling and Holy War: Narrating the Crusades from Medieval to Early Modern France” traces how, and to what effect, stories of crusade were written across medieval and early modern French literature to create ... -
The Italian Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History
(2013-08-12)This study seeks to unravel the intricate connection between a selection of graphic novels, the moments in which they were created, and the process of weaving an Italian cultural history. It analyzes graphic novels and ... -
Learning Ennobles: Study Abroad, Renaissance Humanism, and the Transformation of the Polish Nation in the Republic of Letters, 1517-1605
(2014-10-22)My dissertation examines how study abroad transformed education and society in early modern Europe. My works centers on Poland, a region often considered peripheral by contemporaries and scholars alike. Through combining ... -
Magic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905-1945
(2013-02-20)A Nazi news editor declared in 1934 that there were indefinable "magic connections" between news and politics. This dissertation demystifies those links between communications and society. An untold story of news networks ... -
The Mediterranean in the English Empire of Trade, 1660-1748
(2013-02-11)This dissertation reintegrates the Mediterranean into the history of the development of the early modern British Empire. During the seventeenth century, the Mediterranean emerged as a distinct political, legal and commercial ... -
"Our Gaelic Department": The Irish-Language Column in the New York Irish-American, 1857-1896
(2021-07-12)Advisor: Dr. Natasha Sumner Matthew Knight “Our Gaelic Department”: The Irish-Language Column in the New York Irish-American, 1857-1896 Abstract This dissertation provides a ... -
Paying for the Post-Industrial: The Global Costs of West German and European Capitalist Crisis and Revival, 1972-1988
(2022-08-30)European politicians, business leaders, and citizens confronted a number of pressing questions during the long economic stagnation of the 1970s and 1980s. Amidst a landscape littered with shuttered factories, and in a ... -
Process Work: Édouard Manet (1832-1883) and the Mass Image Industry
(2022-01-19)My dissertation proposes a study of the phenomenon of “process work”—an industry term used in the mid- to late-nineteenth century to designate newly invented processes of mechanical reproduction—as it relates specifically ... -
The Question of Questions: The Problem of Statelessness in International History, 1921-1961
(2014-10-21)This dissertation provides an intellectual history of statelessness from the First World War to the Cold War. Statelessness arose as a distinctive legal and bureaucratic category after 1921. In the following decades, lawyers ... -
The Soviet Sanatorium: Medicine, Nature and Mass Culture in Sochi, 1917-1991
(2014-06-06)In this study, I trace the development and influence of a network of concepts, practices and ideas about nature and health in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 that I call "turning to nature for health." Turning to nature ...