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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 ...
War Without Fronts: Atamans and Commissars in Ukraine, 1917-1919
(2013-10-18)
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The Mediterranean in the English Empire of Trade, 1660-1748
(2013-02-11)
This dissertation reintegrates the Mediterranean into the history of the development of the early modern British Empire. During the seventeenth century, the Mediterranean emerged as a distinct political, legal and commercial ...
Magic Connections: German News Agencies and Global News Networks, 1905-1945
(2013-02-20)
A Nazi news editor declared in 1934 that there were indefinable "magic connections" between news and politics. This dissertation demystifies those links between communications and society. An untold story of news networks ...
Freedom from Value Judgments: Value-Free Social Science and Objectivity in Germany, 1880-1914
(2013-08-12)
This dissertation addresses a central issue in the methodological debates that raged in the German academy around the turn of the twentieth century. The idea of "value-free" social science, or "value-freedom," was passed ...