This dissertation examines the heated debates about the political valences of religious conversion in colonial India and explains how religious conversion, especially to Protestant Christianity, emerged as the most spectacular ...

This dissertation explains how the search for a Chinese cultural identity became central to China’s debates over shared values in the twentieth century. Challenging the mainstream view that the rise of modern Chinese ...

Cities into Empire argues for the centrality of empire in the urbanization of modern Japan, and for the animating role of cities within the imperial imaginaries of planners, bureaucrats, citizens, and colonial subjects. ...

The phenomenon of decolonization profoundly reshaped the twentieth century. Within the span of three decades following the Second World War, the majority of countries formerly colonized by European powers became independent ...

This dissertation is a study on piety and religious practice as shaped by the experience of pilgrimage to these numerous saintly shrines in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Timurid Iran and Central Asia. Shrine visitation, ...

This dissertation excavates the intellectual origins of the legal idea of a person and traces its expression in American politics from the settlement of New England through the eve of the American Civil War. Using statutes, ...

What happened to peoples who felt colonized in post-colonial states? After the Second World War, the formal international order of the United Nations and Cold War political alignments recognized national self-determination ...

This dissertation analyzes the transformation of Protestant political thought and practice in Germany between the 1930s and 1960s. It follows a generation of theologians and lay intellectuals who coalesced around oppositional ...

This study shows that debate over the relations among companies, states, and knowledge is not new, but rather was integral to the politics of the British East India Company. Reconstructing such debate among Company officials ...

My dissertation reveals the elements of Mexican society—including businesses, politicians, union members, peasants, and others—that opposed Mexican emigration to the US and sought to reroute migratory flows more fruitfully ...