This dissertation explores the dynamic interplay between entrepreneurship and change in socialist China (1958--1978) by retracing the persistence of private entrepreneurial activity and the Chinese Communist Party's enduring ...

Pacific islands such as Japan are often unduly represented as isolated places. Land-centric biases obscure the ocean’s significance as an economic space and an ecological catalyst of historical change. With fluctuating ...

The great era of medieval Chinese poetic flourishing known as the High Tang, corresponding roughly to the first half of the eighth century and especially the reign of Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712­–756), has been the subject ...

This dissertation explores the role of personal wealth in the later years of the Soviet Union. It examines how individuals enriched themselves, as well as the meaning of financial affluence in a country that proclaimed ...

This dissertation examines the architectural and infrastructural transformations that followed the rise of coal use in Britain, surveying a period in between coal’s initial adoption in the seventeenth century and the ...

This dissertation turns to the originary moment of historicism to investigate what it meant for British culture to treat artworks (from architecture to literary texts) as expressions of historical knowledge in the nineteenth ...

This is a history of information and its control as a political battleground. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the explosion of mass media and communications connected people across much of the world and made it ...

Abstract Cold War Capitalism The Political Economy of American Military Spending, 1947-1990 Everyone knows that the relationship between capital and the state was transformed by the Great Depression, but historians of ...

This dissertation uses archival and ethnographic research to examine how the entrance of women into the Shinto priesthood in 1946 precipitated the formation of a gendered priesthood. Although more than 16% of the priesthood ...

This dissertation examines ḥaḍāna (custody law) in al-Andalus between the ninth and the early twelfth centuries. Through a close reading of Andalusi Mālikī legal works, I show how this body of law developed and evolved ...