This dissertation builds outward from a chance encounter between New Orleans police officers and a black laborer named Robert Charles during the summer of 1900, unpacking the structural and institutional forces that ...

Over the course of the 1980s and the 1990s, West Germany and then Germany developed the most restrictive law in the advanced industrialized world to regulate reproductive and genetic technologies. Under the Embryo Protection ...

Leading accounts of the rise of the welfare state and the “Great Compression” of inequality in the mid-twentieth century stress the catastrophic shocks of the Great Depression and World Wars. Against these short-term ...

This research, a study of capitalism on the frontier, examines Chinese garment production and African women workers in South Africa from the waning years of apartheid to the present. It focuses on Newcastle, a former border ...

This dissertation is a study of the economic and political history of the ‘New’ French East India Company, or Nouvelle Compagnie des Indes, in the final years of the Old Regime and during the French Revolution (c. 1785-1794). ...

This dissertation explores ideas of internationalism in Europe’s long twentieth century through a transnational study of mountaineering. It examines how alpine clubs—traditionally regarded as the vanguard of bourgeois ...

This dissertation develops a comparative perspective on the Baltic region, from Hamburg in the West to Leningrad in the East. Its transnational approach highlights the role played by medieval Hanseatic port cities such as ...

This dissertation examines how and why one single corporation, Tata, acquired exceptional influence on economic and political life in modern India. It does so by charting the expansion of Tata from one of many merchant ...

This dissertation traces the imperial history of the carceral state from the formal abolition of slavery in the United States (1865) to the declaration of Philippine independence (1946). Through comparative case studies ...

This dissertation examines how the expansion of formal education, so often hailed as a road to opportunity, gave rise to a new form of social inequality in the modern United States. Using quantitative data analysis and ...