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The Cultural Politics of the Nation in the Soviet Union After Stalin, 1953-1991
(2020-05-11)
This dissertation studies the rise of rural-based cultural nationalism in the USSR in the years between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the break-up of the USSR in 1991. It analyzes the lives and work of a multinational ...
A Struggle for Empire: Resistance and Reform in the British Atlantic World, 1760-1778
(2020-05-07)
The American Revolution not only marked the end of Britain’s control over thirteen rebellious colonies, but also the beginning of a division among subsequent historians that has long shaped our understanding of British ...
"To Hold What the U.S. Has Taken in Conquest:" The United States Army and Colonial Ethnic Forces, 1866-1914
(2020-01-22)
The histories of African Americans, Native Americans, and colonial populations during the United States’ national consolidation and imperial expansion after the Civil War have frequently been treated as distinct and separate ...
Crimes of Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Carceral State in New York City, 1920-1978
(2020-05-12)
Crimes of Youth traces the changing politics of delinquency and ideology of crime in twentieth-century New York City. Between 1920 and 1978, U.S. officials built a powerful and expansive carceral state focused on disciplining ...
Planting the Seeds of Empire: Botanical Gardens in the United States, 1800-1860
(2020-05-06)
This dissertation argues that the history of botanic gardens in the nineteenth century United States is integral to understanding the expansion of antebellum state power, the institutionalization of science, and how these ...
Public Credit and the Politics of Money From the British Empire to the Early American Republic
(2020-05-14)
This dissertation explores the intellectual history of public credit in the British American colonies and early United States. By analyzing arguments made to support the circulation of tradable debts, it shows how the ...
Pan-Somali Dreams: Ethiopia, Greater Somalia, and the Somali Nationalist Imagination
(2020-01-22)
Pan-Somali Dreams traces the history of Pan-Somali anticolonial nationalism and the popular desire for a state form, Soomaaliweyn (Greater Somalia), commensurate to the geography of Somali identity. The imposition of ...
Pacific Wars: Peripheral Conflict and the Making of the U.S. “New Navy,” 1865-1897
(2020-05-14)
This project explores a set of limited maritime conflicts in the Pacific and their effects on the creation of the U.S. “New Navy”: The United States military’s first substantive peacetime expansion, c. 1882-1898. It does ...
Making the Internal Colony: Black Internationalism, Development, and the Politics of Colonial Comparison in the United States, 1940–1975
(2020-05-12)
This dissertation argues that competing interpretations of decolonization contributed to a deepening rift between liberal policymakers and the black freedom movement in the United States between 1940 and 1975.
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