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Prophets of the Storm: Race, Power, and the New Orleans Crisis of 1900
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation builds outward from a chance encounter between New Orleans police officers and a black laborer named Robert Charles during the summer of 1900, unpacking the structural and institutional forces that ...
On the Edge of Capitalism: African Local States, Chinese Family Firms, and the Transformation of Industrial Labor
(2017-08-31)
This research, a study of capitalism on the frontier, examines Chinese garment production and African women workers in South Africa from the waning years of apartheid to the present. It focuses on Newcastle, a former border ...
Settling Sapporo: City and State in the Global Nineteenth Century
(2018-05-13)
In this thesis, I investigate the role of citybuilding in the colonization of Japan’s northernmost island, Hokkaido, during the nineteenth century. Using archival sources from the United States and Japan, I explore five ...