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Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet Under Qing Rule, 1792-1911
(2014-02-25)
In the late eighteenth century, a Qing-centered, pluralistic legal order emerged in the Tibetan regions of the Qing empire. In the Gansu borderlands known to Tibetans as "Amdo," the Qing state established subprefectures ...
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 ...
Marginal Revolutions: Economies and Economic Knowledge between Qing China, Russia, and Mongolia, 1860 - 1911
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation began with a question: what does it mean to say or grasp "the economy"? This dissertation examines it examines on-the-ground trading, mining, and money lending between Russian and Qing subjects in Qing ...
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 ...
From Siraf to Sumatra: Seafaring and Spices in the Islamicate Indo-Pacific, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries C.E.
(2013-10-08)
This dissertation is a study of early Islamicate commerce in natural luxuries of the tropical Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Rim, such as spices, ambergris and pearls, between the ninth and eleventh centuries C.E. I ...
The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific
(2022-05-18)
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 ...
Peasants Versus Empires: Transnational Civil Justice and National Legal Decolonization in Manchuria, 1881-1951
(2021-06-10)
This dissertation offers a transnational legal history of peasants, merchants, and migrants in the Manchurian borderland. Drawing on previously unexamined sources from seventeen archives and numerous non-archival collections ...
Building Japan's Empire: Local Practice and Colonial Expertise in Northeast China, 1905–1953
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation explores the development of Japanese legal, social, and technological expertise in colonial spaces in Northeast China (historically Manchuria). This dissertation is at the intersection of three fields: ...
The Dustbin of History: Making Archives in Modern China
(2021-05-19)
For nearly a century, scholars of China have used discarded government papers, often peddled at flea markets outside the law, to peel away the country’s secrecy. Even till today, these “garbage materials” have spawned ...