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Revolutionizing Property: The Confiscation of Émigré Wealth in Paris and the Problem of Property in the French Revolution
(2015-06-23)
The confiscation of émigré property reveals the many different, conflicting ways that property was used in Revolutionary France. Studying the question of property and the process of émigré confiscation from the perspectives ...
The Grand Old Man: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Evolution of the Demand for Indian Self-Government
(2015-05-18)
This dissertation traces the thought and career of Dadabhai Naoroji, arguably the most significant Indian nationalist leader in the pre-Gandhian era. Naoroji (1825-1917) gave the Indian National Congress a tangible political ...
Origin and Antitype: Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany, 1806-1914
(2016-05-16)
This dissertation examines how the nineteenth-century engagement with medieval Europe changed modern Germany. Drawing from archival and printed primary material, I reconstruct how the Middle Ages gained new explanatory ...
The Cartographic Steppe: Mapping Environment and Ethnicity in Japan's Imperial Borderlands
(2016-09-09)
This dissertation traces one of the origins of the autonomous region system in the People’s Republic of China to the Japanese imperial project by focusing on Inner Mongolia in the 1930s. Here, Japanese technocrats demarcated ...
The Civilizing Sea: The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1789-1870
(2016-09-13)
This dissertation examines the religious, diplomatic, legal, and intellectual history of French imperialism in Italy, Egypt, and Algeria between the 1789 French Revolution and the beginning of the French Third Republic in ...
Selling Socialism, Consuming Difference: Ethnicity and Consumer Culture in Soviet Central Asia, 1945-1985
(2016-09-13)
In the decades after World War II, consumption became the ground for a series of debates about Central Asian ethnic and cultural distinctiveness and its fate under modern, Soviet conditions. For nearly the entire span of ...
The Slave Trade and the Foundations of U.S. International Legal Thought, 1808–1870
(2016-08-29)
The international policing of the Atlantic slave trade transformed U.S. ideas and attitudes about international law between the U.S. ban on this trade in 1808 and the trade’s closing in 1870. This dissertation is the only ...
Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion and Defiance in the Japanese Army, 1860-1931
(2015-05-14)
Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for following their superiors to certain death. Their enemies in the Pacific War perceived their obedience as blind, and derided them as “cattle”. Yet the Japanese Army was arguably ...
The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
(2018-09-06)
This study shows that debate over the relations among companies, states, and knowledge is not new, but rather was integral to the politics of the British East India Company. Reconstructing such debate among Company officials ...