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Citizens of the Chemical Complex: Industrial Expertise and Science Philanthropy in Imperial and Weimar Germany
(2014-02-25)
This dissertation is a social and cultural history of chemical industrialists and their role in the development of both science and capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on the case of Germany, ...
Priority Setting for HIV and Mental Health in Mexico: Historical, Quantitative and Ethical Perspectives
(2014-02-25)
Mexico's innovative health reforms have attracted scholarly attention beyond its own borders, making it a valuable case to study how countries set priorities. This dissertation examines the multifaceted topic of priority ...
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 ...
Political Literacy and the Politics of Eloquence: Ottoman Scribal Community in the Seventeenth Century
(2014-02-25)
In 1703, the chief scribe (reisü'l-küttab) Rami Mehmed Efendi (d. 1708) was appointed as the grand vizier in the Ottoman Empire. In scholarship, Rami Mehmed epitomizes the transition in the political cadres from the people ...
A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present
(2014-06-06)
How does the condition of statelessness, which is usually thought of as a political problem, affect the economic and monetary lives of ordinary people?
The International History of the Yemen Civil War, 1962-1968
(2014-06-06)
The deposition of Imam Muhammad al-Badr in September 1962 was the culmination of a Yemeni nationalist movement that began in the 1940s with numerous failed attempts to overthrow the traditional religious legal order. Prior ...
The Asian Origins of Global Narcotics Control, c. 1860-1909
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation traces the ferment of private ressentiment, public protest and political response to the Asian opium trade from the "Second Opium War (1856-60) to the first, multilateral anti-drug summit in human history, ...
Not by Force Alone: Russian Incorporation of the Dnieper Borderland, 1762-1800
(2014-06-06)
This dissertation concentrates on the history of frontiers, borderlands, and empires in Eastern and Central Europe in the eighteenth century. While the existing literature examines mainly ideological and political competitions ...
The Private State: A New Perspective on the European Partition of Africa
(2014-06-06)
In the 1880s there was a race on among Europeans in Africa, spanning virtually the entire continent from Tunisia in the North to the Orange River in the South. Some European nicknames for this race are familiar: the Course ...
Red Meat Republic: The Rise of the Cattle-Beef Complex, 1865-1906
(2014-06-06)
"Red Meat Republic: The Rise of the Cattle-Beef Complex, 1865-1906," examines the consolidation of the American meatpacking and ranching industries. Supplying urban consumers with inexpensive beef required a form of ...