This study examines Tocqueville's account of national particularity, and of the nation as a political association. I aim to show that Tocqueville's frequent and multifaceted references to the nation coalesce into a systematic conception of nationhood that goes to the heart of hi…
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This dissertation is a comparative project which examines the missionary translation of indigenous language and culture in two regions of the world which were colonized by Europeans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: eastern Australia and northwestern America…
The historian C. John Sommerville has invited academics to treat secularism much as they have religion, which means he thinks it should be studied, written about, and taught critically. This dissertation represents an attempt to accept Professor Sommerville's invitation and perh…
The modern Chaldeans are customarily defined, by themselves and by others, as an Aramaic-speaking Catholic minority from the ancient land of Mesopotamia. Articulations of Chaldeanness in the United States--whether written or oral; popular or academic; public or private--exhibit …