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Macrorealism: Fiction for a Networked World
(2013-10-15)
Victorian novels were, generally speaking, big. But what forms did their bigness take? Why did a "macro" aesthetic prevail in the mid-nineteenth century? And why, after losing influence in the following century, has it ...
Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution, 1892-1922
(2013-10-14)
This dissertation describes and analyzes the financial boom that made Russia the largest net international debtor in the world by 1914, as well as the Bolshevik default of 1918 -- one of the biggest in international financial ...
Visionary Realities: Documentary Cinema in Socialist China
(2013-10-11)
This dissertation examines documentary cinema in Socialist China as an emerging technology of mass politics, a new medium for creating political imaginaries and writing history, and a global vernacular connecting China to ...
Indian Insanes: Lunacy in the 'Native' Asylums of Colonial India, 1858-1912
(2013-10-18)
The new Government of India did not introduce legislation for `native' lunacy in colonial India as a measure of social control after the uprisings of 1857-8; discussions about Indian insanes had already occurred in 1856, ...
No Place Like Home: A Cultural History of Gay Domesticity, 1948-1982
(2013-10-17)
No Place Like Home: A Cultural History of Gay Domesticity, 1948-1982, explores the development of gay male domestic spaces and their representation in American culture, from the publication of the first Kinsey Report to ...
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 ...
Hindu Kingship: Ritual, Power and History
(2013-10-14)
This dissertation examines two major kingship rituals-- the coronation and the autumnal navaratri--as discussed in Hindu religious literature and ritual texts, and as practised in Nepal. These rituals are based on sacred ...
War Without Fronts: Atamans and Commissars in Ukraine, 1917-1919
(2013-10-18)
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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 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 ...