One of the greatest and most urgent challenges of our time is to dismantle the oppressive mechanisms by which dominant cultures systematically exclude sectors of the population and their alternative world-views. Throughout ...

Imperial Schemes narrates how imperial knowledge and administrative expertise undergirded the expansion of the British state expansion in the early 20th century, particularly with regard to economic management and assistance ...

Despite being one of the world’s biggest space programs, the Japanese exploration of the cosmos remains a sadly unheralded enterprise. This is regrettable on many levels. The story of how the former empire reached for the ...

This dissertation is the first history of meritocracy in the United States. Despite its roots in the eighteenth century, and its growth in the nineteenth century, the family of discourses and practices that would become ...

This dissertation investigates how early modern Ottoman medical scholars viewed the concept of novelty and how it manifested itself in the socio-political domain. Appearing in the mid-seventeenth century and maintaining ...

Settlers in the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guiana enslaved, re-enslaved or illegally trafficked many tens of thousands of free black people in the five decades between general emancipation in the 1790s ...

How does a colonized country’s embattled film industry respond to an imperial directive to nationalize cinema? And how should we understand the films that were produced by this industry? These are the central questions ...