Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Early Modern"
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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 ... -
Renaissance Primitivism: Old Worlds, New Worlds, and the Origins of Culture in Early Modern England
(2021-11-16)No traffic, no magistrates, no occupation, no property: when Shakespeare lifted a passage from Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals” for Gonzalo’s ideal commonwealth in The Tempest, he was tapping into one of the richest veins opened ... -
The Self-Body Problem in Descartes and Malebranche
(2014-10-21)Descartes and Malebranche often seem to argue that the self (or I) is identical to an immaterial thinking substance distinct from the body. But there are also many passages where they insist that the body is part of the ...