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"The Indian Discovery of Buddhism": Buddhist Revival in India, c. 1890-1956
(2013-10-18)
This dissertation examines attempts at the revival of Buddhism in India from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Typically, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's conversion to Buddhism in 1956 is seen as ...
Independent India of Plenty: Food, Hunger, and Nation-Building in Modern India
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation situates debates over food procurement, provision, and hunger as the key economic and social contestations structuring the late colonial and postcolonial Indian state. It juxtaposes the visions of national ...
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 ...
The Two Pacific Wars: Visions of Order and Independence in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines, 1940-1945
(2013-03-08)
This dissertation examines the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japan’s ambitious attempt to create a new order in East Asia. Most studies on Japan’s new order focus on either the imperial center (Japan) or the ...
Seizing Civilization: Antiquities in Shanghai's Custody, 1949 – 1996
(2012-09-12)
Seizing Civilization uses the Shanghai Museum as a case study to examine an extraordinary process of art appropriation that persisted from 1949 to 1996 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). At the heart of this story ...
Global Positioning: Houqua and His China Trade Partners in the Nineteenth Century
(2012-07-23)
This study unearths the lost world of early-nineteenth-century Canton. Known today as Guangzhou, this Chinese city witnessed the economic dynamism of global commerce until the demise of the Canton System in 1842. Records ...
Wartime Atrocities and the Politics of Treason in the Ruins of the Japanese Empire, 1937-1953
(2012-10-23)
This dissertation explores the relationship between violence and betrayal in retribution against military and police collaborators who helped maintain Japan’s wartime occupations up until its defeat in 1945. Looking at the ...