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Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution, 1892-1922
(2013-10-14)
This dissertation describes and analyzes the financial boom that made Russia the largest net international debtor in the world by 1914, as well as the Bolshevik default of 1918 -- one of the biggest in international financial ...
Running Chanzas: Slave-State Interactions in Cartagena de Indias 1580 to 1713
(2014-06-06)
My dissertation examines the transmission and establishment of the institution of slavery from medieval Iberia into the expanding Spanish Empire and its subsequent development. This involves understanding the dynamic ...
American Lucifers: Makers and Masters of the Means of Light, 1750-1900
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation examines the social history of Atlantic and American free and unfree labor by focusing on the production and consumption of the means of light from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. ...
A Choice, Not an Echo: Polarization and the Transformation of the American Party System
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation offers an intellectual and institutional history of party polarization and ideological realignment in the postwar United States. It treats the construction of an ideologically sorted party system as a ...
The Soviet Sanatorium: Medicine, Nature and Mass Culture in Sochi, 1917-1991
(2014-06-06)
In this study, I trace the development and influence of a network of concepts, practices and ideas about nature and health in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 that I call "turning to nature for health." Turning to nature ...
Trading with Power: Mexico City's Markets, 1867-1958
(2013-07-05)
This dissertation traces the history of Mexico City’s municipal markets from a patchwork of sites of customary trade dating from the colonial era to a network of state-controlled modernist halls in the 1950s. It shows how, ...
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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Americans on Paper: Identity and Identification in the American Revolution
(2013-10-18)
The American Revolution brought with it a crisis of identification. The political divisions that fragmented American society did not distinguish adherents of the two sides in any outward way. Yet the new American governments ...
Governing Islam: Law and Religion in Colonial India
(2013-08-09)
This dissertation charts how the legal regulation of Islam in colonial India fostered a conception of religion that focused on dividing it from secular economy and politics. Colonial law segregated religious law from other ...